Title: Romeo and Juliet
Date: Monday 14th May 1973, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Royal Ballet
Location: London Coliseum, England
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Choreographer: Kenneth MacMillan
Production: Kenneth MacMillan’s 1965 production for the Royal Ballet
Conductor: Anthony Twiner
Collection Folder: 2401_1973_01

Cast

Juliet: Doreen Wells
Romeo: Desmond Kelly
Mercutio: Michael Coleman
Tybalt: Desmond Doyle
Benvolio: David Ashmole
Paris: Derek Rencher
Lord Capulet: Michael Somes
Lady Capulet: Georgina Parkinson
Escalus, Prince of Verona: Leslie Edwards
Rosaline: Vergie Derman
Nurse: Gerd Larsen
Friar Laurence: Adrian Grater
Lord Montague: David Adams
Lady Montague: Romayne Grigorova
Juliet’s Friends: Belinda Corken, Susan Lockwood, Rosemary Taylor, Hilary Tickner, Marilyn Trounson, Anita Young
Three Harlots: Sandra Conley, Laura Connor, Suzanna Raymond
Lead Mandolin: Wayne Sleep
Mandolin Dance: Peter Bosman, Christopher Carr, Wayne Eagling, Peter O’Brien, Gary Sinclaire
Ballroom Guests and Townspeople: Artists of the Royal Ballet

Orchestra

First Violins:
Dian Booth (Leader)
David Whiston
Joyce Nixon
Peter Stevens
Donna Chapman
Suzanne Bareau
Stephen Levine
Penelope Saunders
Charles Beldom
David Goodall
Aleta Fonte
Antonio Alvares

Second Violins:
Geoffrey Grey
Louise Jolly
Garth Morton
Maureen Schofield
Valerie Cairns
Andrew Sherwood
Lois Westcott
Elizabeth Kerrey
Eileen Malone
George Edwards

Violas:
Patrick Hooley
John Denman
Richard Holttum
Jennifer Weston
Clare Santer
Robert Winquist
Paul Morris
Philippa Carpenter-Jacobs

Cellos:
Peter Halling
Clare Wright
Susan Hampson
Simon Clugston
Avis Perthen
Andrzej Dudek
Paul Kegg

Basses:
Leroy Cowie
Duncan Mitchell
Ronald Dunning
Sally Rowe
Nick Worters

Harps:
Sarah Morley
Karen Vaughan

Flutes:
Clarissa Melville
Celia Chambers (Piccolo)
Pamela Beard (Piccolo)
Derek Honner (Alto Flute)

Oboes:
Murray Johnston
Andrew Swinnerton (Cor Anglais)
Linden Harris
Gillian Carter

Clarinets:
Tom Whitestone
Malcolm McMillan (Bass Clarinet, Tenor Saxophone)
Wilfred Goddard (EB Clarinet)
Lee Stevenson (Bass Clarinet)

Bassoons:
Meyrick Alexander
Sheila Cook
Valerie Watts (Contra Bassoon)
Michael Cole (Contra Bassoon)

Horns:
Robin Davis
Adrian Norris
Jonathan Wallen
Adrian McLeish
Gerald Boot
Peter Blake

Trumpets:
John Hammonds
Malcolm Woodhouse
Colin Clague (Cornet)
Nick Bomford (Cornet)

Trombones:
David Hissey
Peter Thorley

Bass Trombone:
Malcolm Kinch

Tuba:
Andrew Martin

Timpani:
Jacqueline Kendle

Percussion:
Anne Collis
John Beadle
Lilian Simpson
Harry Smaile
Cecil Kearney
J. Charles Fullbrook

Crew

For Romeo and Juliet

Design: Nicholas Georgiadis
Lighting: William Bundy
Scenery Builders: Tom Waldron, F. Babbage & Co. Ltd.
Scenery Painters: Peter Courtier, Tom Mayer, Harker Studios
Wigmaker: Albert Sargood
Jewellery and Headdress Maker: Jean Percival

For the Royal Ballet

Director: Kenneth MacMillan
Associate Director: Peter Wright
Company Manager: Vernon Clarke
Regisseur: Henry Legerton
Ballet Master: Desmond Doyle
Ballet Mistress: Jill Gregory
Principal Teachers and Répétiteurs: Gerd Larsen, Brian Shaw, Michael Somes, Eileen Ward
Guest Teacher: Ailne Phillips
Director, Royal Ballet Choreographic Group: Leslie Edwards
Director, Ballet for All: Alexander Grant
Dance Notators: Monica Parker, Faith Worth, Elizabeth Cunliffe, Jacqueline Hollander
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Rosalind Eyre
Orchestra Manager: Clarissa Melville
Librarian: Richard Holttum
Principal Pianist: Anthony Twiner
Music Staff: Jonathan Frank, Philip Gammon, Hilda Gaunt, Simon Gotteridge, Julian Thurber
Technical Supervisor: Tom Macarthur
Senior Stage Manager: Jeffrey Phillips
Deputy Stage Manager: Bruce Percival
Master Carpenter: Richard Watson
Chief Electrician: Terence Jackson
Wardrobe Mistress: Joyce Wells
Wardrobe Master: Michael Brown
Public Relations Officer: J. Bransby Roberts
Ballet Press Officer: Vivien Wallace
Assistant Ballet Press Officer: Sarah Woodcock

For the London Coliseum

Chairman: Kenneth Robinson
Managing Director: Lord Harewood
House Manager: Charles Kraus
Assistant House Manager: Andrew Burn
Box Office Manager: John Ball
Stage Director: John Harrison
Press Officer: Helen Salomon
Publicity and Promotions: Richard Jarman, Julia Parrish

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