PRODUCER
Nigel Playfair
CHOREOGRAPHER
Dances arranged by Penelope Spencer
MUSIC
Frederic Austin and Alfred Reynolds; additional music by Lord Berners, Dennis Arundell, Richard Leveridge, Harold Scott, and others
SCENERY & COSTUMES
Philippe Forbes-Robertson, John Armstrong, James Whale, and The Cottars’ Market
DANCERS
Nigel Playfair, Elsa Lanchester, Richard Goolden, James Whale, George Baker, Harold Scott, Cavan O’Connor, Penelope Spencer, and others
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Presented by Nigel Playfair, Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 10 April 1926
During the General Strike of that year the revue transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre, then reopened at the Lyric with the addition of Frederick Ashton’s first ballet:
A Tragedy of Fashion or, The Scarlet Scissors
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