Title: Les Sylphides/Two Brothers/Czernyana/Hazaña
Date: Saturday 6th June 1959, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Ballet Rambert
Location: Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England
Composer: Frédéric Chopin (Les Sylphides), Ernst von Dohnányi (Two Brothers), Karl Czerny (Czernyana), Carlos Surinach (Hazaña)
Choreographer: Mikhail Fokine (Les Sylphides), Norman Morrice (Two Brothers, Hazaña), Frank Staff (Czernyana)
Production: 1953 Ballet Rambert revival production (Les Sylphides), Original 1958 production (Two Brothers), 1959 Ballet Rambert revival (Czernyana), Original 1959 production (Hazaña)
Collection Folder: Scrapbook #1
Cast
Les Sylphides
Nocturne: Beryl Goldwyn, Lucette Aldous, Gillian Martlew, Christopher Lyall, Elsa Recagno, Thelma Litster, June Sandbrook, Valerie Marsh, Shirley Dixon, Jennifer Dodd, Carolyn Fey, Sylvia Singleton, Jennifer Kelly, Sandra Short, Irene Siegfried, Rachel Holland, Anna Truscott, Doreen Draisey
Valse: Lucette Aldous
Mazurka: Beryl Goldwyn
Mazurka: Christopher Lyall
Prelude: Gillian Martlew
Grand Valse: Beryl Goldwyn, Christopher Lyall
Finale: Ensemble
Two Brothers
The Girl: Gillian Martlew
Young Man: John Chesworth
His Brother: Norman Morrice
Their Friends: Thelma Litster, June Sandbrook, Valerie Marsh, Shirley Dixon, Sylvia Singleton, Jennifer Kelly, Jennifer Dodd, Carolyn Fey, Christopher Lyall, John Benfield, Kenneth Bannerman, John O’Brien
Czernyana
Fugue: Ensemble
Se Habla Espagnol: Kenneth Bannerman
Ebats: Thelma Litster, Shirley Dixon, Jennifer Dodd, Jennifer Kelly
M’as-tu Vue!: Lucette Aldous
Nuages: Kenneth Bannerman, Jennifer Dodd
Visions: Elsa Recagno, Norman Morrice, John Benfield
Pas de Trois: Thelma Litster, Jennifer Kelly, John O’Brien
Variation Partagee: Kenneth Bannerman, Christopher Lyall
Presque Classique: Elsa Recagno
Trop Symphonique: Kenneth Bannerman, Ensemble
Les Bells Somnolentes: Thelma Litster, Elsa Recagno
Finale: Ensemble
Hazaña
The Husband: John Chesworth
His Wife: Gillian Martlew
Their Daughter: June Sandbrook
Foreman: Christopher Lyall
His Wife: Anna Truscott
Other Labourers: Elisa Recagno, Carolyn Fey, Sandra Short, Sylvia Singleton, Rachel Holland, Kenneth Bannerman, John Benfield, John O’Brien
The Local Priest: Norman Morrice
Solo Harpsichord: Joan Barker
Piano: Cyril Preedy
Crew
For the Mixed Bill
Decor, Les Sylphides: Hugh Stevenson
Decor and Costumes, Two Brothers, Hazaña: Ralph Koltai
Decor and Costumes, Czernyana: Eve Swinstead-Smith
For Ballet Rambert
Director: Marie Rambert
Associate Director: David Ellis
General Manager: Frederick Bromwich
Secretary: Audrey Robinson
Stage Director: William Ferguson
Musical Director: David Ellenberg
Orchestra Leader: Penelope Howard
Stage Manager: Arthur Jago
Wardrobe Mistress: Judith Edsall
Assistant Wardrobe Mistress: Mrs E. Dixon
Public Relations: John Webley
Pianist: Cyril Preedy
For the Sadler’s Wells Theatre
Licensee and Administrative Director: Stephen Arlen
Director: Norman Tucker
Press Representative: Ian Purvis
Manager: Douglas Bailey
Assistant Manager: Mignon Marshall
Usherette Manageress: Elisabeth Keay
Box Office Manager: John Walcot
Stage Director and Production Manager: Anthony Easterbrook
Master Carpenter: William Blakely
Chief Electrician: Charles Bristow
Property Master: Dereyck Varley
Orchestra Manager: Percy D. Showan
Programme Printed By: John Waddington Ltd., London