Title: Les Sylphides/Horoscope/Façade
Date: Saturday 18th November 1939, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Vic-Wells Ballet
Location: Theatre Royal, Nottingham, England
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (Les Sylphides), Constant Lambert (Horoscope), William Walton (Façade)
Choreographer: Mikhail Fokine (Les Sylphides), Frederick Ashton (Horoscope, Façade)
Production: 1932 Vic-Wells Ballet production (Les Sylphides), Original 1938 production (Horoscope), 1935 Vic-Wells Ballet production (Façade)
Conductor: N/A
Collection Number: 3901_1939_03

Cast

Les Sylphides

Nocturne: Pamela May, Mary Honer, June Brae, Robert Helpmann, Julia Farron, Jean Bedells, Molly Brown, Guinevere Parry, Joy Newton, Anne Spicer, Elizabeth Kennedy, Joan Leaman, Mavis Jackson, Patricia Garnett, Palma Nye, Olive Deacon, Joan Ross, Margaret Dale, Annabel Farjeon, Joan Phillips
Valse: Mary Honer
Mazurka: Pamela May
Mazurka: Robert Helpman
Prelude: June Brae
Valse: Pamela May, Robert Helpmann
Grand Valse (Finale): Pamela May, Mary Honer, June Brae, Robert Helpmann, Julia Farron, Jean Bedells, Molly Brown, Guinevere Parry, Joy Newton, Anne Spicer, Elizabeth Kennedy, Joan Leaman, Mavis Jackson, Patricia Garnett, Palma Nye, Olive Deacon, Joan Ross, Margaret Dale, Annabel Farjeon, Joan Phillips

Horoscope

The Young Man (Sun in Leo, Moon in Gemini): Michael Somes
The Young Woman (Sun in Virgo, Moon in Gemini): Margot Fonteyn
The Gemini: Richard Ellis, Alan Carter
The Moon: Pamela May
Followers of Leo: Mary Honer, June Brae, Joy Newton, Olive Deacon, Patricia Garnett, Palma Nye, Annabel Farjeon, Joan Ross, Claude Newman, Alan Carter, Richard Ellis, Leslie Edwards, Stanley Hall, Paul Reymond, Leo Young
Followers of Virgo: Molly Brown, Julia Farron, Guinevere Parry, Elizabeth Kennedy, Margaret Dale, Joan Leaman, Jean Bedells, Mavis Jackson, Anne Spicer
Attendants on the Moon: Molly Brown, Julia Farron, Anne Spicer, Guinevere Parry, Elizabeth Kennedy, Joan Leaman, Mavis Jackson, Jean Bedells, Joan Phillips, Margaret Dale

Façade

Scotch Rhapsody: Guinevere Parry, Mavis Jackson, Claude Newman
Yodelling Song – The Milk Maid: Pamela May
Yodelling Song – Mountaineers: Frederick Ashton, Harold Turner, Richard Ellis
Polka: Margot Fonteyn
Waltz: Anne Spicer, Joan Leaman, Palma Nye, Olive Deacon
Popular Song: Harold Turner, Richard Ellis
Country Dance – A Maiden: Mary Honer
Country Dance – A Yokel: Michael Somes
Country Dance – The Squire: Robert Helpmann
Tango – A Dago: Frederick Ashton
Tango – Debutante: Margot Fonteyn
Tarantella Finale: Mary Honer, Frederick Ashton and Ensemble

Pianists (All Works): Constant Lambert, Hilda Gaunt

Crew

For the Triple Bill

Producer, Les Sylphides: Arnold Haskell
Sets, Les Sylphides: Hugh Stevenson

Costumes and Decor Design, Horoscope: Sophie Fedorovitch

Scenario after, Façade: Poems by Edith Sitwell
Costume and Scenic Design, Façade: John Armstrong

For the Vic-Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Choreographers: Frederick Ashton and Ninette de Valois

Ballet Mistress: Joy Newton
Stage Manager: Louis Yudkin
Assistant Stage Manager: C.J. Hillier
Secretary: Edith Carlyon

For the Theatre Royal

Managing: Moss’ Empires Ltd.
Joint Managing Directors: R.H. Gillespie and George Black
Director: George Black
Resident Manager: Tim H. Tillson
Resident Musical Director: Charles Dennis

Programme Published By: Stilwell Darby & Co. Ltd.
Programme Printed By: John Waddington Ltd.