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
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