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[Follow the Sun] (1935)

Revue with dialogue by Ronald Jeans and John Hastings Turner


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)



The Entire Revue Produced under the Direction of Charles B Cochran
Staged by Frank Collins
Dances and ensembles by Buddy Bradley and Frederick Ashton
M Arthur Schwartz
Lyrics by Howard Dietz and Desmond Carter
S Ernest Stern
C Ernest Stern, Ada Peacock, and Xenia

Players: Claire Luce, Irene Eisinger, Ada Reeve, Jeni LeGon, Eve, Iris March, Frank Pettingell, Eliot Makeham, Vic Oliver, Nick Long Jr (not in cast in Manchester)
8 Love Is a Dancing Thing
D Eileen O'Connor and Mr Cochran's Young Ladies
10 Cuba
D Nicotina: Claire Luce, Robert Linden (later danced by Robert Linden, Frederick Ashton)
11 Polonaise
D Mr Cochran's Young Ladies
19 The First Shoot
A Tragedy
A Ballet by Osbert Sitwell
M William Walton
SC Cecil Beaton
D Lady de Fontenoy (formerly Connie Winsome of the Gaiety, or Daly's): Claire Luce; Lord Fontenoy: Robert Linden (later omitted from cast list); Lord Charles Canterbury: Frederick Ashton (later danced by Nick Long Jr); The Pheasants, The Ladies, The Gentlemen, The Footmen: ensemble
22 Dangerous You
D The Girl: Claire Luce; The Poet: Robert Linden (later Frederick Ashton); The Man About Town: Philip Morgan; The Tough: Stanley Haig-Brown; The Soldier: W Lawson McLaren
24 Sleigh Bells
D Eileen O'Connor

FP Presented by Charles B Cochran, Opera House, Manchester, 23 December 1935; Adelphi Theatre, London, 4 February 1936