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LevelFile
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1296
Title'On The Brighter Side' by James Gilbert
Extent1 file
Date1961
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'On The Brighter Side' with photographs of member of the cast and cast list; includes programme with cast list, photographs and brief biographies of cast members and date 1961; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the revue

Performed at The Phoenix Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London, 12 Apr 1961; lyrics and music by Neville Phillips, Alec Grahame, George Hall, Richard Waring, Robert Gould, Dennis Wilson, Gerry Donovan, Lance Mulcahy, Johnny Speight, Kenneth Williams, Stanley Daniels, Ray Jessel, Dvid Cumming, Derek Collyer, Sean Vincent, Ian Fraser, Vivian Ellis, John Taylor, Stanley Myers, Eric Merriman, David Campton, Brad Ashton, John Pritchett, Barry Cryer, Ken Hoare; additional material Spike Milligan; presented by Peter Bridge and John Gale; devised and directed by James Gilbert; musical numbers staged by Alfred Rodrigues; settings by Clifford Hatts; costumes by Alan Pickford; lighting by Richard Pilbrow; orchestrations by Dennis Wilson; musical director Colin Beaton
Transferred to: The Comedy Theatre, Haymarket, 15 Aug 1961, closing performance (182nd) 23 Sep 1961

Cast: Pip Hinton, David Kernan, Ronnie Barker, Judy Carne, Una Stubbs, Bob Stevenson, Greta Hamby, Victor Duret, Amanda Barrie, Elisabeth Counsell, Allan Barnes, Stanley Baxter, Betty Marsden
Access StatusOpen

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