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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/4261
Title'The New Moon' by Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel and Laurence Schwab
Extent1 file
Date1928-1930
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'The New Moon' with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme on first page with cast list and typescript dates and change of cast member 1929; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical

Performed at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, 4 Apr 1929, closing performance, 10 Aug 1929; produced by Felix Edwardes; production supervised by Alfred Butt; dances and ensembles staged by Robert Connolley; orchestra directed by Herman Finck; scenery by Prince Galizine and Joseph and Phil Harker; costumes by Irene Segalla; music by Sigmund Romberg
On tour: 1929: The Royal Theatre, Birmingham; 1930: The Empire Theatre, Glasgow; The Empire Theatre, Southampton
America: The Imperial Theatre, New York, 19 Sep 1928; presented by Schwab and Mandel; settings by Donald Oenslager; costumes by Charles le Maire; The Casino Theatre, New York, 18 Nov 1929

Casts: Charlotte Lansing, Gaile Beverly, Evelyn Herbert, Robert Halliday, Max Figman, William O'Neal, Gus Shy, Lyle Evans, Marie Callahan, Esther Howard, George Houston, Roscoe Ails, Dolores Farris, Vincent Clive, Jack Livesey, Edmund Willard, Barrie Livesey, Howett Worster, Gene Gerrard, Roy Emerton, John MacMahon, Evelyn Laye, Ben Williams, Gordon Crocker, Walter Donahue, A. Willard, Selwyn Morgan, Ernest Ludlow, Margery Hicklin, William Wallace, Kathleen Gerrard, Vera Pearce, Hubert Ennor, Harry Welchman, Marie Callahan, Pacie Ripple, John Ehrle, O. Vanasse, Esther Howard, Irving Weinstein, Margaret Carke, Herman Belmonte, Carola Taylor, Albert Downing, Eileen Moody, Jerry Verno, Noel Dainton, Lola Hunt, Doree Gabelle, Bernerd Howard, Robert Woolard, George Miller, Ernest Llewellin, Leonard Steb, Reginald Gibson, H. Richards, Leslie Lee, Eric Sutherland, William Senior, Jack Bloomfield
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