Title: Swan Lake
Date: Tuesday 15th November 1938, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Vic-Wells Ballet
Location: Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England
Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreographer: Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov
Production: Revival of Nicholas Sergeyev’s 1934 production for the Vic-Wells Ballet
Conductor: Unknown
Collection Folder: Folder 36

Cast

Prince Siegfried: Robert Helpmann
Princess Mother: Joy Newton
Wolfgang, the Tutor: John Greenwood
Benno: William Chappell
Odette/Odile: Margot Fonteyn
Von Rothbart: John Nicholson

Act I-
Huntsmen: Richard Ellis, Leslie Edwards, Michael Somes, Alan Carter, Paul Reymond, David Grey
Peasant Girls: Molly Brown, Wenda Horsburgh, Julia Farron, Anne Spicer, Annabel Farjeon, Elizabeth Kennedy, Guinevere Parry, Joan Leaman, Palma Nye, Patricia Garnett, Mavis Jackson, Joan Phillips
Pas de Trois: Mary Honer, Elizabeth Miller, Harold Turner
Peasant Girl: Patricia Garnett
Attendants on the Princess: Joyce Graeme, Valerie Wade, Moyra Fraser, Margaret Williams

Act II-
Huntsmen: Richard Ellis, Leslie Edwards, Michael Somes, Alan Carter, Paul Reymond, David Grey
Cygnets: Jill Gregory, Molly Brown, Jean Bedells, Guinevere Parry
Two Swans: Pamela May, June Brae
Swans: Anne Spicer, Wenda Horsburgh, Joy Newton, Elizabeth Kennedy, Joan Leaman, Joyce Graeme, Palma Nye, Mavis Jackson, Valerie Wade, Patricia Garnett, Joan Phillips, Moyra Fraser

Act III-
Court Ladies: Joyce Graeme, Valerie Wade, Moyra Fraser, Margaret Williams
Spanish Dance: June Brae, Pamela May, William Chappell, Leslie Edwards
Czardas: Ursula Moreton, Claude Newman, Sheila McCarthy, Elizabeth Kennedy, Alan Carter, Frank Staff
Marzuka: Wenda Horsburgh, Anne Spicer, Palma Nye, Patricia Garnett, Richard Ellis, Michael Somes, Leslie Edwards, David Grey
Pages: Margaret Dale, Jean Bedells, Mavis Jackson, June Vincent
Usher: John Greenwood

Act IV-
Swans: Anne Spicer, Wenda Horsburgh, Joy Newton, Elizabeth Kennedy, Joan Leaman, Joyce Graeme, Palma Nye, Mavis Jackson, Valerie Wade, Patricia Garnett, Joan Phillips, Moyra Fraser
Two Swans: Pamela May, June Brae
Black Cygnets: Jill Gregory, Molly Brown, Jean Bedells, Guinevere Parry

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

Production Manager: Charles Reading
Stage Management and Lighting: Henry Robinson
Assistant Stage Manager: Louis Yudkin
Orchestra Leader: Joseph Shadwick
Wardrobe Master: W. Bailey
Wardrobe Mistress: Mrs Newman
Master Carpenter: J. Osborn
Electrician: J. Hudson
Property Master: G. Ellicott

Acting Manager: Edward G.C. Holbrook
Press Representatives: Alan Bland, Andrew Reid

For the Sadler’s Wells Theatre

Lessee and Manager: Bruce D. Worsley
Box Office Manager: Miss M.P. Hemmerich

Programme Printed By: Merser & Sons Ltd., London

Notes

Patricia Garnett’s surname is misspelt as Garnet in the Act I Cast Listing. Mavis Jackson’s surname is misspelt as Jakson in the Act III Cast Listing.