| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Kismet', based on 'Kismet' by Edward Knoblock; with photographs and illustrations of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme with cast list and typescript dates 1953-1956; magazine extracts with photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical
Performed at The Stoll Theatre, Kingsway, London, 20 Apr 1955, closing performance, 1 Dec 1956; presented by Jack Hylton; directed by Albert Marre; settings and costumes by Lemuel Ayers; lighting by Peggy Clark and Alec Shanks; dances and musical numbers staged by Jack Cole; musical director Cyril Ornadel; lyrics and music by Robert Wright and George Forrest; music adapted from themes of 'Borodin'
America: The Ziegfeld Theatre, New York [3 Dec 1953]; setting and costumes by Lemuel Ayers; choreography by Jack Cole
Casts: Doretta Morrow, Joan Diener, Richard Kiley, Richard Oneto, Philip Coolidge, Henry Calvin, Elaine Malbin, Julie Wilson, William Johnson, Lee Kenton, Emlyn Lewis, Tom Swift, Colin Thomas, Colin Cunningham, Humphrey Heathcote, David Dulak, Raymond Ray, John Bleasdale, Donald Eccles, Alfred Drake, George Slack, Alister Williamson, Stanley van Beers, Josephine Blake, Malcolm Goddard, Nigel Burke, Tudor Evans, Paul Whitsun-Jones, George Swales, Ken Richmond, Gordon Petrie, Harry Baird, Muriel Ali, Doreen Rider, Peter Grant, Judith Shergold, Pamela Butler, Olga Roman, Sheila Bradley, Claire Warner, June Grant, Juliet Prowse, Barbara Allard, Jane Martin, Jane Walker, Barbara Ulric, Robert Garcia, Janet Yorke, Gloria Wenlock, Mary Burgess, Ruth Silvester, Frank Olegario, Joseph Sealey, George Kazanzi, Norma Dunbar, Ann Tyrell, Sally Webb, Maureen Sims, Margaret Kovac, Elizabeth Lerner |