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(Floodlight) (1937)

A New Revue written and composed by Beverley Nichols


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)



Produced by C Denis Freeman
Dances arranged by Buddy Bradley; ballets by Frederick Ashton
Additional M Vivian Ellis and Benjamin Frankel
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