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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/2784
Title'The Big Top' by Herbert Farjeon
Extent1 file
Date1942
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The Big Top' with photographs of members of the cast and cast list; includes programme with cast list [1942]; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the revue

Performed at His Majesty's Theatre, London, 8 May 1942; presented by Charles B. Cochran; produced by Herbert Mason; choreography by Buddy Bradley; orchestra directed by Ben Frankel; decor by Joseph Carl and Rex Whistler; costumes by Doris Zinkeisen, Rolf Gerard, Oliver Messel, Alec Shanks and William Chappel; music by Geoffrey Wright, Nicholas Brodzsky, Elsie April and Harry Parr Davies; The Royal Court, Liverpool, 18 Mar 1942

Cast: Patricia Burke, Fred Emney, Cyril Ritchard, Madge Elliott, Beatrice Lillie, Charles Hickman, Robin Hood, Babbie McManus, Donald Reed, Heather Boys, Gretchen Franklin, Angela Braemar, Enid Smeeden, John Brandon, Pearl Carr, Lee Hanson, Paddie Raymonde, Sabina Gordon, Ruth Warner, Yoma, Morlais Morgan, Charles Peters, Spencer Thomas, Maurice Leverett, Daphne Peretz, Marcel de Haes, Charles Peters
Access StatusOpen

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