A Wedding Bouquet-23 February 1949 Evening

Ballet: Performance details

Company:	Sadler's Wells Ballet
Venue:	Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London
Performance status:	Revival
Conductor	Robert Irving
Chorus Master	Douglas Robinson
Leader	Joseph Shadwick

Cast
Webster 'Webster was a name that was spoken'		Palma Nye
Peasant Girl		Avril Navarre
Peasant Girl		Sheila Nelson
Peasant Boy 'They must hurry and get their waggon'		Donald Britton
Peasant Boy 'They must hurry and get their waggon'		Douglas Steuart
Josephine 'She may be wearing a gown newly washed and pressed'		June Brae
Paul 'Pleasant, vivacious and quarrelsome'		Harold Turner
John 'An elder brother who regrets the illness of his father'		Richard Ellis
Violet 'She may be delightful or not, as it happens'		Julia Farron
Ernest 'May be a victim of himself'		Ray Powell
Therese 'Will be faintly neat'		Gerd Larsen
Julia 'Is known as forlorn'		Moira Shearer
Bridegroom 'They all speak as if they expected him not to be charming'		Robert Helpmann
Pépé (Julia's dog) 'Little dogs resemble little girls'		Annette Page
Arthur 'Very well I thank you'		Alfred Rodriques
Guy 'unknown'		Michael Somes
Guest 'They incline to oblige only when they stare'		Paula Dunning
Guest 'They incline to oblige only when they stare'		Lorna Mossford
Guest 'They incline to oblige only when they stare'		Christine du Boulay
Guest 'They incline to oblige only when they stare'		Rosemary Lindsay
Gendarme 'They make preparations to deal with an exception'		Paul Reymond
Gendarme 'They make preparations to deal with an exception'		Henry Legerton
Bride 'Charming! Charming! Charming!'		Margaret Dale
Bridesmaid 'They may recognise places'		Jill Gregory
Bridesmaid 'They may recognise places'		Dorothea Zaymes
		The Covent Garden Opera Chorus
		The Covent Garden Orchestra

Event:	Number 3 in Sadler's Wells Ballet mixed programme 23 February 1949
Information source:	Royal Opera House programme for 23 February 1949 (in Royal Opera House Collections)

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