Title: Oranges and Lemons
Date: Production Opened Monday 1st November 1948
Type: Revue
Location: Grand Theatre, Leeds, England
Director: Laurier Lister
Collection Folder: Folder 12

Programme

Act 1

Overture

Drop Cloth Designer: Roland Pym

This Pretty Thing

Lyrics: Sagittarius
Music: Geoffrey Wright
Decor: Ronald Pym
Performers: The Company

For Art’s Sake

Lyrics and Music: Sandy Wilsom
Decor: W. Stanley Moore
Performers: Diana Churchill, Max Adrian, Elisabeth Welch

Help Yourself

Creator: Charlotte Mitchell
Performers: Rose Hill, Charlotte Mitchell, Kenneth Connor

A Subaltern’s Love Song

Lyrics: John Betjeman
Music: Donald Swann
Decor: Roland Pym
Performer: August Menzies

The Sunday Sisters

Lyrics and Music: Sandy Wilson
Performers: Diana Churchill, Daphne Oxenford

Snake in the Grass

Lyrics: Alan Melville
Music: Geoffrey Wright
Decor: Roland Pym
Performers: Elisabeth Welch, Max Adrian

View Point

Creator: Kenneth Connor
Performers: Daphne Oxenford, Kenneth Connor

Jigsaw

Music: Lennox Berkeley
Decor: William Chappell
Performers: Ulla Soderbaum, Nigel Burke, Elizabeth Cooper, Sylvia Rye

Teacher

Creator: Joyce Grenfell
Decor: Roland Pym
Performer: Diana Churchill

La Tricoteuse

Creator: H.F. Ellis
Decor: W. Stanley Moore
Performers: Rose Hill, Brian Blades, Kenneth Connor

I Took My Love to Heaven

Lyrics: Marjorie Whittles
Music: Donald Swann
Dress Design: Ray Diffen
Performer: Elisabeth Welch

Cora

Creator: Alan Melville
Performer: Max Adrian

Check to the King

Lyrics: Mary Dunn
Music: Geoffrey Wright
Decor: Ghin
Performers: Rose Hill, Angus Menzies

Fig Leaves Incorporated

Creator: Charlotte Mitchell
Dress Design: Katia Kennedy
Performer: Diana Churchill

Bengal Dancer

Creator: Alan Melville
Music: Donald Swann
Decor: Theyre Lee-Elliot
Costume Design for Max Adrian: William Chappell
Performers: Max Adrian, Daphne Oxenford, Charlotte Mitchell

Just Across the Way

Lyrics: Christopher Hassall, adapted from the French lyrics of Michael Emer
Music: Michael Emer
Decor: Gurschner
Performer: Elisabeth Welch

The Stars Look Down

Creator: Mary Dunn
Dress Design: Ray Diffen
Performers: Marjorie Dunkels, Kenneth Connor

Food of Love

Lyrics: Nicholas Phipps
Music: Geoffrey Wright
Decor: William Chappell
Performers: The Company

Act 2

Springtime

Lyrics and Music: Leslie Julian Jones
Decor: Charles Mosley
Dresses: Ray Diffen
Performers: Daphne Peretz, Denis Martin, The Company

In the D’Oyly Cart

Lyrics: Michael Flanders
Music: Donald Swann
Performers: Diana Churchill, Max Adrian, Rose Hill

Midnight

Lyrics: Patric Dickinson
Music: Geoffrey Wright
Decor: Michael Ayrton
Performer: Elisabeth Welch

And Marathon Looks on the Sea

Lyrics: David Marsh, Michael Asquith
Music Arranger: Donald Swann
Decor: Ronald Pym
Performers: Daphne Peretz, Elizabeth Boyd, Shirley Hall, Denis Martin, Angus Menzies, Ulla Soderbaum, Silvia Ashmole, Elizabeth Cooper, Ann Lydekker, Sylvia Rye

The Importance of Being Frank

Creator: Mary Dunn
Decor: Cecil Beaton
Performers: Diana Churchill, Max Adrian, Marjorie Dunkels

Galloping Poll

Lyrics: Sagittarius
Music: Geoffrey Wright
Performers: Rose Hill, Daphne Oxenford, Angus Menzies, Kenneth Connor

The Spanish Lady

Lyrics: Clemence Dane
Music: Richard Addinsell
Decor: Audrey Cruddas
Performer: Elisabeth Welch

Omnibus

Creator: Charlotte Mitchell
Performer: Charlotte Mitchell

Venus Anadyomene

Music: Lennox Berkeley
Decor: William Chappell
Performers:
Dad: John Heawood
Mum: Sylvia Rye
Daughter: Elizabeth Cooper
Son: Nigel Burke
Venus: Ulla Soderbaum
Two Creatures: Sylvia Ashmole, Ann Lydekker

Rainbow Nights

Lyrics: Joyce Grenfell
Music: Geoffrey Wright
Decor: Roland Pym
Performers: Diana Churchill, Daphne Oxenford

The Girl from the Opera

Lyrics and Music: Antony Hopkins
Decor: Tanya Moiseiwitsch
Performer: Rose Hill

Quiet Honeymoon

Creator: Simon Wilkes
Decor: W. Stanley Moore
Performers: Brian Blades, Daphne Peretz, Charlotte Mitchell, John Heawood, Kenneth Connor, Marjorie Dunkels, Angus Menzies, Shirley Hall, Ann Lydekker, Elizabeth Cooper, Sylvia Rye, James Thompson, Max Adrian

Someday

Lyrics: Joyce Grenfell
Music: Richard Addinsell
Decor: Roland Pym
Performer: Denis Martin

Art of Midlothian

Lyrics: Alan Melville
Music: Donald Swann
Dress Design: Katia Kennedy
Performer: Diana Churchill

Home Rails

Lyrics: Alan Melville
Music: Donald Swann
Dress Design: Emett
Performers: Max Adrian, Elizabeth Boyd, Brian Blades, Shirley Hall

Dress Nonsense

Lyrics and Music: Sandy Wilson
Dress Design: Charles Russell
Performer: Elisabeth Welch

Finale

Lyrics: Sagittarius
Music: Geoffrey Wright
Decor: Roland Pym
Performers: The Company

Pianists: John Pritchett, Betty Robb
Percussionist: Chris Blades

Crew

For Oranges and Lemons

Producers: Company of Four
Choreographer: William Chappell
Musical Director and Vocal Arranger: John Pritchett
Music Scorers: Geoffrey Wright, Donald Swann, John Pritchett
Technical Advisor: W. Stanley Moore
Costume Supervisor: Ray Diffen

For Company of Four

Manager: Robert Vaughan
Stage Director: Henry Locke
Stage Manager: John Oxley
Assistant Stage Manager: James Thompson
Press Representative: Vivienne Byerley
Chief Engineer: William Walton
Master Carpenter: Jack Boon
Wardrobe Mistress: Mrs. Newberry

For the Grand Theatre

Managing Director: John Beaumont
Resident Manager: Harry Daniels
Musical Director: Stanley C. Berkeley
Box Office Manager: Mrs A. Pill

Programme Printed By: John Waddington Ltd.

Notes

Played at the theatre prior to a run at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London. Revue opened at the Lyric in late November 1948