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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/1405
Title'Chrysanthemum' by Neville Phillips and Robin Chancellor
Extent1 file
Date1956-1959
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Chrysanthemum' with photographs of members of the cast and cast lists; includes programme with cast list, printed insert announcing change in cast member and typescript dates on cover 1958-1959; programme with cast list, printed insert announcing change in cast member and postcard for original production [1956]; also includes magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical; [printed flyer] on front cover [1958-1959]

Performed at The Prince of Wales Theatre, London, 13 Nov 1958, closing performance, 14 Feb 1959; presented by S. A. Gorlinsky; directed by Eleanor Fazan; costumes by Michael Baldwin; production designed and lit by Disley Jones; choreography and musical numbers staged by Alfred Rodrigues; musical advisor Harold Collins; orchestra under the direction of Roy Lowe; music by Robb Stewart
Transferred to: The Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London, 18 Feb 1959, closing performance, 21 Mar 1959
[Provincial tour]:The Opera House, Manchester, 8 Sep 1958
Originally at: The New Lindsay Theatre Club, Notting Hill Gate, 14 Mar 1956; presented by Leonard Urry; directed by John Reagan; musical director Clarry Ashton; scenery and costumes by Hilary Virgo and Rosemary Carvill; assistant production manager Jashif Crandall

Casts: Susan Pardoe, Patricia Webb, Gwen Watts, Elizabeth Griffiths, Judy Manning, Richard Carter, Richard Pescud, Alan Leigh, Ian Whittaker, Eric Woodburn, Richard Curnock, Donald Scott, Valerie Tandy, Patricia Moore, Colin Croft, Rex Berry, Gordon Thompson, Phyllis Watersford, Diana Lynton, Hilary Bresloff, Alexandra Beauclerc, Ina Whittaker, Richard Carter, Frank Lloyd, Vivien Grant, Greta Hamby, Josephine Blake, Judy Carne, Roy Skelton, Terry Theobald, Roy Jameson, Ray Warwick, Raymond Newell, Roger Gage, Pat Kirkwood, Freda Wigson, Hubert Gregg, Johnny Whyte, Stella Chapman, Burda Cann, Audry Hodgkiss, Ina Clare, Janet Howse, Michael Miller, Fred Evans, Roy Pattison, Alan Angel, Nicholas Amer, Arnold Yarrow, Margo Cunningham, Monica Macleod, Michael Harding
Access StatusOpen

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