Title: Swan Lake (Le Lac des Cygnes)
Date: Thursday 1st May 1947, Evening, and Saturday 3rd May 1947, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: International Ballet
Location: Davis Theatre, Croydon, England
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreographer: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Production: Nicholas Sergeyev’s 1947 production for the International Ballet
Conductor: James Walker
Collection Folder: Scrapbook #1

Cast

Odette/Odile: Mona Inglesby
Siegfried: Jack Spurgeon
Benno: Ernest Hewitt
Von Rothbart: Seamus Gordon (Act II), Ernest Hewitt (Acts III & IV)

Act I

Prince’s Tutor: Harcourt Algeranoff
Huntsmen: Seamus Gordon, John Healy, Mikhail Kalcunis, John Hall, Denys Palmer, John Marshall, David Gilbert, Peter White
Prince’s Mother: Nina Nikitina
Ladies-in-waiting: Joyce Gearing, Joan Tucker, Dorothy Stevenson, Herida May
Pas-de-trois: Claudie Algeranova, Michel de Lutry, Sandra Vane
Peasant Girls: Moira Tucker, Noreen Lee, Doreen Nash, Anne Suren, Desta Marnau, Menen Smeta, June Newstead, Maureen Power, Sophia Trant, Voirie Mylchreest, Noel Bronley, Patricia Bentley, Myra Kidd, Bridget Kelly, Joy Carter, Judy Forster

Act II

Huntsmen: John Healy, Mikhail Kalcunis, John Hall, Denys Palmer, John Marshall, David Gilbert, Peter White
Swan Leaders: Herida May, Claudie Algeranova, Sandra Vane, Dorothy Stevenson
Four Cygnets: Moira Tucker, Domini Callaghan, Doreen Nash, Anne Suren
Swans: Joan Tucker, Joyce Gearing, Noreen Lee, Menen Smeta, Maureen Power, Patricia Bentley, Myra Kidd, Noel Bronley, Sophia Trant, Judy Forster

Act III

Prince’s Mother: Nina Nikitina
Master of Ceremonies: John Healy
Herald: John Marshall
Pages: Ena Baguley, Pauline Clinch, Jose Emmerson, Betty Chandler
Princesses: Joyce Gearing, Domini Callaghan, Noreen Lee, Claudie Algeranova, Menen Smeta, Sandra Vane
Spanish Dance: Herida May, Harcourt Algeranoff, Moira Tucker, Michel de Lutry
Venetian Dance: Doreen Nash, Patricia Bentley, Desta Marnau, Sophia Trant, Bridget Kelly, Noreen Lee, June Newstead, Joy Carter
Marzuka: Denys Palmer, Anne Suren, Seamus Gordon, Joan Tucker, John Hall, Maureen Power, Mikhail Kalcunis, Noel Bronley
Czardas: Harcourt Algeranoff, Herida May, John Sergieff, Moira Tucker, Miroslav Zlochovsky, Dorothy Stevensonl
Vision of Odette: Jeanne Lusby

Act IV

Swan Leaders: Herida May, Claudie Algeranova
Cygnets: Sophia Trant, Jean Lusby, June Newstead, Ena Baguley
Swans: Doreen Nash, Noreen Lee, Menen Smeta, Joan Tucker, Desta Marnau, Maureen Power, Judy Forster, Voirie Mylchreest, Noel Bronley, Patricia Bentley, Myra Kidd, Bridget Kelly

Crew

For Swan Lake

Staging: Nicholas Sergeyev
Costumes and Decor: William Chappell

For the International Ballet

Director: Mona Inglesby
General Manager: W.H.C. Alexander
Manager: E. Fleetwood
Stage Director: Edward Ward
Press Representative: William Wordsworth

For the Davis Theatre, Croydon

Managing Director: Alfred Davis
Manager: John P. Collins
House Manager: Vernon H. Clarke
Stage Manager: Fred H. Trask
Public Relations Officer: Herbert Miller
Box Office Manager: W. Bowers