Rhapsody

Rhapsody
Alina Cojocaru and Steven McRae
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[Love is the Best Doctor] (1934)

L'Amour médicin, comédie-ballet in three acts, by Jean-Baptist Molière; translation uncredited


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)



Directed by Robert Atkins
Dances arranged by Frederick Ashton
M uncredited
SC J Gower Parks

Players: Baliol Holloway, John Laurie, Frank Tickle, Clement Hamelin, A B Imeson, Michael Martin-Harvey, Jack Carlton, Paul Farrell, Leslie French, Ivor Harries, Bitten Nissen, Sybil Evers, Eileen Payley, Jenny Barclay, Pamela Stanley, Nora Colton, Pat Lees, Irene Gwynn
Première danseuse: Pearl Argyle
Revellers and Scaramouches: Jean Brodie, Billie Lees, Pat Lees, Corinne Mackenzie, Anna Marita, Thora Marshall, Aase Nissen, Bitten Nissen, Marjorie Stewart

FP Presented by Sydney W Carroll, Winter Garden Theatre, London, 20 September 1934