| Perpetuum
mobile
M Johann Strauss Jr (Perpetuum mobile, musikalischer scherz,
opus 257)
C for Joy Newton by William Chappell
D Joy Newton, Robert Helpmann
FP Vic-Wells Ballet, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 11 January 1937
Harlequin
in the Street
A New Ballet by André Derain
M Francis Couperin, arranged by Constant Lambert
SC André Derain
D A Pedestrian: Lionel Dixon; A Knife-Grinder: Ivor Harries; A Bread Man:
Hedley Briggs; Three Gossips: Peggy van Praagh, Susan Reeves, Mary Skeaping;
Harlequin: Stanley Judson; A Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Michael Martin-Harvey;
A Marquise: Chrysagon Vaughan; Two Porters: George Welford, Donald Hewett
FP as a curtain raiser to Le Misanthrope by Jean-Baptiste Molière,
Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 8 February 1937; Ambassadors Theatre, London,
23 February 1937, with Alan Carter as Harlequin
See 1938,
Harlequin in the Street
Les
Patineurs
Ballet-Divertissement in one act
M Giacomo Meyerbeer, arranged by Constant Lambert (ballet music and one
aria from Le Prophète, and Waltz from Act II, Prelude to Act III,
and Ismailov's aria "Bel cavalier" from
L'Etoile du nord)
SC William Chappell
D 1 Entrée: Mary Honer, Elizabeth Miller
Pas de huit: Gsyneth Mathews, Joy Newton, Peggy Melliss, Wenda Horsburgh,
Richard Ellis, Leslie Edwards, Michael Somes, Paul Reymond
2 Variation: Harold Turner
3 Pas de deux: Margot Fonteyn, Robert Helpmann
4 Ensemble
5 Pas de trois: Mary Honer, Elizabeth Miller, Harold Turner
6 Pas des patineuses: June Brae, Pamela May
7 Ensemble
8 Galop finale
FP Vic-Wells Ballet, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 16 February 1937
NP Sadler's
Wells Ballet; new S William Chappell:
D Entrée: Margaret Dale, Avril Navarre; Variation: Harold Turner;
Pas de deux: Moira Shearer, David Paltenghi;
Pas des patineuses: Beryl Grey, Gillian Lynne
FP Royal Opera House, London, 20 March 1946
ST Sadler's
Wells Theatre Ballet; D Variation: Donald Britton; Pas de deux: Annette
Page, David Poole; FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 23 April 1955
NP Royal
Ballet; enlarged version with corps de ballet and Pas des patineuses duplicated
behind the arches:
D Entrée: Annette Page, Shirley Grahame; Variation: Brian Shaw;
Pas de deux: Anya Linden, Desmond Doyle; Pas de
quatre (formerly Pas des patineuses): Brenda Taylor,
Valerie Taylor, Meriel Evans, Mary Drage
FP Royal Opera House, London, 12 March 1957
(This so-called "mirror version," prepared for a tour of Soviet
Russia in the autumn of 1956 that was cancelled after the invasion of
Hungary, was not performed on tour in Britain by the main company, though
it was given in the United States; it was dropped altogether from 10 February
1966, though the corps de ballet was then augmented to six couples)
ST Royal
Ballet School; FP Royal Opera House, London, 13 May 1961
ST Ballet
for All; Variation only; FP Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe, 13 October 1972
By other
companies:
NP [American]
Ballet Theatre; SC Cecil Beaton;
D Entrée: Barbara Fallis, Cynthia Riseley; Variation: John Kriza;
Pas de deux: Nora Kaye, Hugh Laing; Pas des patineuses: Diana Adams, Anna
Cheselka
FP Broadway Theater, New York, 2 October 1946
ST University
of Cape Town Ballet; R David Poole; FP Cape Town,
6 December 1957
ST The United
Ballet Company; R Philip Chatfield; FP Her Majesty's Theatre, Auckland,
New Zealand, 28 November 1959
ST State
Ballet of Turkey; R Ninette de Valois and Ann Parsons;
FP National Theatre, Ankara, 15 January 1962
NP The New
Zealand Ballet; R Walter Trevor; SC Raymond Boyce:
D Variation: Walter Trevor; Pas de deux: Kirsten Ralov, Arthur
Turnbull
FP Napier, New Zealand, 7 July 1962
ST Transvaal
Ballet; R Alexander Bennett; FP 1965
ST PACT Ballet
Company; FP Johannesburg, South Africa, 1965
ST Royal
Winnipeg Ballet; R Miro Zolan; FP Playhouse Theatre,
Winnipeg, Manitoba, 29 December 1966
ST The Australian
Ballet; R Peggy van Praagh; D Variation: Alan Alder; Pas de deux: Elaine
Fifield, Kelvin Coe;
FP Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, 23 March 1970
ST Minnesota
Dance Theatre; R Brian Shaw; FP Minneapolis MN,
2 May 1972
ST Noverre-Ballett;
R Robert Mead; FP Würtembergisches Staatstheater Stuttgart, Kleines
Haus, 6 May 1973
ST Joffrey
Ballet; R Brian Shaw: D Entrée: Francesca Corkle, Ann Marie De
Angelo; Variation: Mark Goldweber; Pas de deux: Denise Jackson, Gregory
Huffman; Pas des patineuses: Cynthia Anderson, Patricia Miller
FP City Center Theater, New York NY, 2 November 1977
ST Ballet
of the Norske Opera; FP 1977
ST National
Ballet [of Canada] School; R Lynn Wallis; M arranged for two pianos by
Margaret Gibbs; FP St Lawrence Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto,
27 April 1978
ST CAPAB Ballet Company; R Lynn Wallis; D Variation: Wayne Sleep FP Nico
Malan Opera House, Cape Town, 1 September 1978
ST National
Ballet of Canada; R Brian Shaw: D Variation: Peter Schaufuss FP O'Keefe
Centre, Toronto, 10 November 1978
ST Milwaukee
Ballet; R Brian Shaw: FP Vihlein Hall, Milwaukee WI, 11 February 1983
ST Banff
Center; R Alexander Grant; FP Banff Center, Banff, Alberta, 1983
ST Ballet
Metropolitan; R Sheila Humphries and Brian Shaw: FP Ohio Theater, Columbus
OH, 28 February 1985
ST Ballet
West; R John Hart: FP High School, Aspen CO, 30 July 1985; Capitol Theater,
Salt Lake City UT, 20 September 1985
ST London
City Ballet; R Julie Lincoln; FP King's Theatre, Edinburgh, 26 May 1992;
Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 14 December 1992
ST Hong Kong
Ballet; R Julie Lincoln: FP Cultural Centre Grand Theatre, Hong Kong,
28 April 1994
ST Louisville
Ballet; R Helen Starr: FP Kentucky Center for the Arts, Whitney Hall,
Louisville KY, 16 February 1995
ST Miami
City Ballet; R Hilary Cartwright: FP Jackie Gleason Theater, Miami FL,
11 November 2000
ST Rambert
School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance: excerpts only; R Shirley Grahame
and Diana Vere: D Entrée: Ayoko Toyama, Sawa Seno; Variation: Shih-Hsien
Chang; Pas de deux:
Ayumi Yamashite, Ben Dixon; Pas des patineuses: Brigida Neves, Rachel
Keats; FP Rambert School, Twickenham MX
First Arabesque
M Claude Debussy (from Deux arabesques, for piano)
D Margot Fonteyn
FP BBC Television, Alexandra Palace, London, 20 March 1937
Berceuse
M William Walton (Berceuse from incidental music for The Boy David by
J M Barrie, 1936)
C John Armstrong
D Margot Fonteyn
FP BBC Television demonstration film, directed by Dallas Bower, "tracking"
by John Armstrong; filmed at Stoll Pictures, Cricklewood, between 7 and
17 April 1937
A
Wedding Bouquet
M Lord Berners
Words by Gertrude Stein (mostly from They Must.Be Wedded.To Their Wife)
Curtain SC Lord Berners
D Webster: Ninette de Valois; Two Peasant Girls: Linda Sheridan, Joan
Leaman; Two Peasant Boys: Paul Reymond, Alan Carter; Josephine: June Brae;
Paul: Harold Turner; John: William Chappell; Violet: Pamela May; Ernest:
Claude Newman; Thérèse: Elizabeth Miller; Julia: Margot
Fonteyn; Bridegroom: Robert Helpmann; Pépé (Julia's dog):
Julia Farron; Arthur: Leslie Edwards; Guy: Michael Somes; Four Guests:
Gwyneth Mathews, Wenda Horsburgh, Joy Newton, Anne Spicer; Two Gendarmes:
Paul Reymond, Alan Carter; Bride: Mary Honer; Bridesmaids: Molly Brown,
Jill Gregory
FP Vic-Wells Ballet, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 27 April 1937
(During the
1940 summer season at Sadler's Wells, the singing chorus was replaced
by Constant Lambert's declamation of the words; thereafter the ballet
was performed this way, until later revivals at the Royal Opera House,
when the chorus was restored at Frederick Ashton's request)
ST Sadler's
Wells Ballet; D Josephine: June Brae; Julia: Moira Shearer; Bridegroom:
Robert Helpmann; Bride: Margaret Dale;
FP Royal Opera House, London, 17 February 1949
ST Royal
Ballet; Tribute to Sir Frederick Ashton; excerpt only;
Royal Opera House, London, 24 July 1970
ST Ballet
for All; excerpts only; FP Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe,
13 October 1972
ST Royal
Ballet touring section; D Josephine: Vyvyan lorrayne; Julia: Margaret
Barbieri; Bridegroom: Alain Dubreuil; Bride:
Marion Tait; FP Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, 14 May 1974
ST Joffrey
Ballet; R Christopher Newton: D Josephine: Jan Hanniford; Julia: Beatriz
Rodriguez; Bridegroom: Gary Chryst; Bride: Lynn Glauber; FP City Center
Theater, New York NY, 18 October 1978
[Floodlight]
A New Revue written and composed by Beverley Nichols
Produced by C Denis Freeman
Dances arranged by Buddy Bradley; ballets by Frederick Ashton
Additional M Vivian Ellis and Benjamin Frnakel
SC René Hubert
Players: Frances Day, John Mills, Hermione Baddeley
13 Waltz in Prelude to Battle (Scene: The Waterloo Ball, Brussels, 1815)
16 Dancing with the Daffodils
D Frances Day and The Girls
24 Sir Thomas Beeton in the Kitchen
M Benjamin Frankel
D The Cook: Hermione Baddeley; The Chef: Cyril Wells; Conductor: Lyle
Evans; Kitchenmaids: Maisie Green, Eily Wilson, Sylvia Taperell, Valerie
Stanton; Footmen: Tom Gillis, Edward Britten, Kenneth Carter, Peter Du
Callion
FP Presented by Richard D Rose and A J Shaughnessy, Saville Theatre, London,
23 June 1937
copyright
© 2004 by David Vaughan
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