Swan Lake, The Vic-Wells Ballet- 1937

*The signatures of Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann, Mary Honer and Harold Turner*

Title: Swan Lake
Date: 1937, Month Unknown (probably January/February)
Type: Ballet
Company: Vic-Wells Ballet
Location: Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreographer: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Production: Revival of Nicholas Sergeyev’s 1934 production for the Vic-Wells Ballet
Conductor: Unknown
Collection Folder: Folder 22

Cast

Prince Siegfried: Robert Helpmann
Princess Mother: Joy Newton
Wolfgang, Tutor to the Prince: John Greenwood
Benno, the Prince’s friend: William Chappell
Odette: Margot Fonteyn
Odile: Mary Honer
Von Rothbart: Carol Bertram

Act I-
Huntsmen: Claude Newman, Maurice Brooke, Leslie Edwards, Michael Somes, Paul Reyloff
Peasant Girls: Peggy Melliss, Joy Robson, Molly Brown, Wenda Horsburgh, Gwyneth Mathews, Jill Gregory, Anne Spicer, Laurel Martyn, Annabel Farjeon, Elizabeth Kennedy, Guinevere Parry, Joan Leaman
A Peasant Girl: Joy Robson
Attendants on the Princess: Yvonne Lurion, Beve Parker, Joyce Platts

Act II-
Huntsmen: Claude Newman, Maurice Brooke, Leslie Edwards, Richard Ellis, Michael Somes, Paul Reyloff
Cygnets: Molly Brown, Jill Gregory, Laurel Martyn, Joyce Farron
Two Swans: Pamela May, June Brae
Swans: Gwyneth Mathews, Peggy Mellis, Anne Spicer, Wenda Horsburgh, Joy Newton, Guinevere Parry, Elizabeth Kennedy, Annabel Farjeon, Joy Robson, Yvonne Lurion, Joan Leaman, Beve Parker

Act III-
Court Ladies: Annabel Farjeon, Joan Leaman, Yvonne Lurion, Beve Parker, Joyce Platts
Pas de trois: Elizabeth Miller, Pamela May, Harold Turner
Spanish Dance: June Brae, Peggy Melliss, William Chappell, Leslie Edwards
Czardas: Ursula Moreton, Claude Newman, Joy Robson, Wenda Horsburgh, Paul Reyloff, Michael Somes
Mazurka: Ailne Phillips, Gwyneth Mathews, Jill Gregory, Laurel Martyn, Richard Ellis, Maurice Brooke, William Chappell, Leslie Edwards
Pages: Guinevere Parry, Joyce Farron
Usher: John Greenwood

Act IV-
Swans: Joy Newton, Peggy Melliss, Anne Spicer, Jill Gregory, Juanita Bradshaw, Wenda Horsburgh, Joan Leaman, Annabel Farjeon, Elizabeth Kennedy, Yvonne Lurion, Joy Robson
Two Swans: Pamela May, June Brae
Black Cygnets: Molly Brown, Guinevere Parry, Laurel Martyn, Joyce Farron

Crew

For Swan Lake

Costumes and Decor: Hugh Stevenson

For the Vic-Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Ursula Moreton
Musical Director: Constant Lambert

Stage Management and Lighting: Henry Robinson
Assistant Stage Manager: S.G. Harrison
Orchestra Leader: Joseph Shadwick
Wardrobe Master: O. Whitehead
Wardrobe Mistress: Mrs Newman
Master Carpenter: J. O’Connor
Electrician: J. Hudson
Property Master: G. Ellicott
Press Representatives: Alan Bland, Andrew Reid

Acting Manager: Edward Holbrook