CREATED, DEVISED AND PRODUCED BY
George Black, assisted by Charles Henry
DANCES AND ENSEMBLES ARRANGED BY
Frederick Ashton and J Sherman Fisher
MUSIC
Orchestrations and arrangements by Billy Ternent and Jock Premice
SCENERY
G McConnell Wood, Alec Shanks, Max Weldy, and Harry Delvin
PLAYERS
Flanagan and Allen, Nervo and Knox, Naughton and Gold (The Crazy Gang)
A Flower Market
COSTUMES
Max Weldy, from designs by Freddy Wittop
DANCERS
Jeanne Devereaux
The Very Merry Widow
MUSIC
Franz Lehár
COSTUMES
Max Weldy, from designs by Freddy Wittop
ENSEMBLE
The Ambassador: Chesney Allen; The Secretary of State: Bud Flanagan; The Ambassador’s Wife: Hannah Watt; Prince Danilo: Teddy Knox; The Widow: Jimmy Nervo; and ensemble
Olde London Towne: Buy My Cherries
MUSIC
Roger McDougal
DANCERS
The Cherry Maid: Jeanne Devereaux
Vauxhall Gardens, 1759
ENSEMBLE
Bea Hunter; Prince Frederick: Syd Railton; Milady–, Friend of the Prince: Hannah Watt; Mâitre d’hôtel: Del Foss
“Poor Bride–Poor Groom” sung by the Crazy Gang and Company
“Love’s Telegraph” sung by Adrian Burgess and Company
The Moth and the Flame
DANCERS
The Moth: Jeanne Devereaux
Replaced in London by
The Lady in Red
MUSIC
Mort Dixon and Allie Wrubel (from the film In Caliente, 1935)
DANCERS
Jeanne Devereaux
FIRST PERFORMANCE
Presented by George Black, Hippodrome, Brighton, 12 August 1935; London Palladium, 27 August 1935
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