CHOREOGRAPHY
Dances and ensembles by Buddy Bradley; ballets by Frederick Ashton
MUSIC
William Walker
LYRICS
Robert Nesbit
SCENERY
Coombe
COSTUMES
Norman Edwards and William Chappell
PLAYERS
Hermione Baddeley, George Sanders, Henry Mollison, Richard Murdoch, Phyllis Clare, Walter Crisham
DANCERS
Act I Scene 4 Black Magic
The Salesman: John Byron; 1st Customer: Peggy Cochrane; 2nd Customer: Norman Hackforth; 3rd Customer: George Sanders; The Singer: Zaidee Jackson
The Dancers: Walter Crisham and The Girls
Act I Scene 10 By Candlelight
Pearl Argyle, Walter Crisham, John Byron and The Girls
Act I Scene 12 Mediterranean Madness
The Matelot: Walter Gore; The Dancers: Pearl Argyle, Walter Crisham and The Company
Act II Scene 3 Far Beyond the Crowd
Pearl Argyle, Walter Crisham, Nancy Burne, Richard Murdoch, Aimee Gillespie, Hugh French
Act II Scene 8 Ballet for Four Pianos and Orchestra
Music arranged by Peggy Cochrane
Pearl Argyle, Walter Gore, John Byron and The Girls
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Presented by Lionel Barton, Comedy Theatre, London, 22 December 1932
Copyright © 2004 by David Vaughan
This listing is part of a chronology that was originally published in Vaughan’s Frederick Ashton and His Ballets (Alfred E Knopf 1976; 2nd ed., London: Dance Books, 1999) and includes new productions added since then, and up until 2007