| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Rise Above It' with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast list (on front cover); includes magazine extracts with photographs of cast members in scenes from the first and second editions of the revue
Performed at The Comedy Theatre, London, 5 Jun 1941 and (second edition) 20 Dec 1941; presented by Jack de Leon and Charles Kilick; directed by Henry Kendall; music directed by Walter Crisham; [choreography by Walter Crisham]; decor by Berkely Sutcliffe [and Kathllen Ankers]; [scenery by Kathleen Ankers] lyrics and music by Leslie Julian Jones; additional numbers by Manning Sherwin, Val Guest, Tommie Connor, Denis Waldock, Alan Melville, [Jayne Ogden] and others
Originally at: The 'Q' Theatre, Kew Bridge, 8 Jan 1941; produced by Hedley Briggs
On tour: 1941: The Streatham Hill Theatre; The Royal Court, Liverpool
Cast: Hermione Gingold, Hermione Baddeley, Walter Crisham, Henry Kendall, Carole Lynne, Eric Micklewood, Wilfred Hyde White, Virginia Winter, Georgina Cookson, Billy Thatcher, Prudence Hyman, Natasha Sokolova, Bertty Karina, Evelyn Thorne, Lulu Dukes, Joan Greenwood, Frith Banbury, Peter Coles, David Evans, Edward Cooper, Audrey Murray |