Title: Summer Interlude/La Fête étrange/Beauty and the Beast/The Nutcracker Act II
Date: Saturday 6th May 1950, Matinee
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet
Location: Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England
Composer: Ottorino Respighi (Summer Interlude), Gabriel Faure (La Fête étrange), Maurice Ravel (Beauty and the Beast), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (The Nutcracker Act II)
Choreographer: Michael Somes (Summer Interlude), Andrée Howard (La Fête étrange), John Cranko (Beauty and the Beast), Lev Ivanov (The Nutcracker Act II)
Additional Choreography: Angelo Andes (Nutcracker Act II Spanish Dance)
Production: Original 1950 production (Summer Interlude), 1947 Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet production (La Fête étrange), Original 1949 production (Beauty and the Beast), Nicholas Sergeyev’s staging for the Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet (The Nutcracker Act II)
Conductor: Not Listed
Collection Folder: Scrapbook #1

Cast

Summer Interlude

Village Girl: Patricia Miller
Village Boy: Pirmin Trecu
Bathers: Elaine Fifield, David Blair, Joan Cadzow, Jane Shore, Michael Hogan, Maryon Lane, Veronica Vail, Sheilah O’Reilly, Stanley Holden, Donald McAlpine, Maureen Bruce, Peter Wright, Stella Claire, David Gill

La Fête étrange

Country Boy: Leo Kersley
The Bride: Jane Shore
The Bridegroom: David Poole
Guests: Sheilah O’Reilly, Maryon Lane, David Blair, Maureen Bruce, Stella Farrance, Stella Claire, Joan Cadzow, Mary Drage, Pauline Harrop, David Gill, Peter Wright, Maurice Metliss, Kathleen Gorham, Veronica Vail, Maureen Swanson, Noreen Sopwith

Singer: Marion Studholme

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty: Patricia Miller
Beast: David Poole

The Nutcracker Act II

Nutcracker Prince: David Blair
Sugar Plum Fairy: Elaine Fifield
Attendants of the Sugar Plum Fairy: Stella Claire, Mary Drage, Stella Farrance, Pauline Harrop, Maureen Bruce, Jane Shore
Spanish Dance: Sheilah O’Reilly, Pirmin Trecu
Arabic Dance: Joan Cadzow
Chinese Dance: David Gill, Donald McAlpine
Bouffon: Stanley Holden
Dance of the Mirlitons: Maryon Lane, Annette Page, Noreen Sopwith, Maureen Swanson, Veronica Vail
Valse des fleurs: Ensemble

Crew

For the Mixed Bill

Decor and Costumes, Summer Interlude, La Fête étrange: Sophie Fedorovitch
Orchestrations, La Fête étrange: Guy Warrack
Costume Executor, La Fête étrange: Grace M. Kelly
Scenery Painter, La Fête étrange: Alick Johnstone
Decor and Costumes, Beauty and the Beast: Margaret Kaye
Decor, The Nutcracker Act II: M. Dobquinsky

For the Sadler’s Wells Theatre Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Musical Director: Guy Warrack
Assistant Director: Ursula Moreton
Ballet Mistress: Peggy van Praagh
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Barbara Fewster
Rehearsal Pianist: Mavis Barr
Business and Stage Manager: J.A. Titcombe
Secretary: Valerie West
Stage Director: John Wright
Scenic Manager: John Glass
Assistant Stage Manager: Mary Owen
Wardrobe Manager: Anthony Boyes
Master Carpenter: William Blakely
Chief Electricians: Arthur Lane, John Church
Property Master: Douglas Vince
Wardrobe Mistress: Edith Strowbridge
Wardrobe Master: Fred Williams

For the Sadler’s Wells Theatre

General Manager and Licensee: George Chamberlain
Manager: Ian Keith
Press Representative: Everleigh Leith
Public Relations Officer: Jeanne C. Crossley
Box Office Manager: W.G. Touchfield

Notes

In between Beauty and the Beast and The Nutcracker Act II a Musical Interlude was given. The orchestra performed the Overture from François-Adrien Boieldieu’s 1813 opera Le nouveau seigneur du village.