Rhapsody

Rhapsody
Alina Cojocaru and Steven McRae
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[The Cat and the Fiddle] (1932)

A musical love story by Otto Harbach


Abbreviations:
M Music by
S Scenery by
C Costumes by
D Danced by
FP First performance
NP New production
R Reproduced by
ST Staging (indicates that the ballet was produced in substantially its original form)



M Jerome Kern
Staged by William Mollison
Dances arranged by Buddy Bradley; the action of The Passionate Pilgrim designed by Frederick Ashton
S Henry Dreyfuss
C The Marchioness of Queensberry (Cathleen Mann); Delysia's Pierrot costume by Norman Hartnell

Players: Peggy Wood, Alice Delysia, Gina Malo, Francis Lederer, Muriel Barron, Austin Trevor
Act I Scene 6 Le Pélérin passionné
Pierrette: Muriel Barron; Harlequin: Eric Marshall; Béchamelle: Rita Cooper; Pierrot: Alice Delysia

FP Presented by Charles B Cochran, Opera House, Manchester, 20 February 1932; Palace Theatre, London, 4 March 1932