Follow the Sun (1935)

Revue with dialogue by Ronald Jeans and John Hastings Turner

PRODUCED BY

The Entire Revue Produced under the Direction of Charles B Cochran

STAGED BY

Frank Collins

DANCES AND ENSEMBLES

Buddy Bradley and Frederick Ashton

MUSIC

Arthur Schwartz

LYRICS

Howard Dietz and Desmond Carter

SCENERY

Ernest Stern

COSTUMES

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

DANCERS

Eileen O’Connor and Mr Cochran’s Young Ladies

10 Cuba

DANCERS

Nicotina: Claire Luce, Robert Linden (later danced by Robert Linden, Frederick Ashton)

11 Polonaise

DANCERS

Mr Cochran’s Young Ladies

19 The First Shoot: A Tragedy

A Ballet by Osbert Sitwell

MUSIC

William Walton

SCENERY

Cecil Beaton

DANCERS

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

DANCERS

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

DANCERS

Eileen O’Connor

FIRST PERFORMANCE

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