The Desert Song (1961) - Huddersfield Amateur Operatic Society
The Desert Song was the Huddersfield Amateur Operatic Society's 1961 production.
It was performed at ABC Theatre, Huddersfield, from Monday 20 November to Saturday 25 November 1961.
Souvenir Brochure
Credits
- Frederic Sabine — producer & director
- Nora Bray — choreographer
- Kenneth Gee — musical director
- N. D. Hamilton-Meikle — stage manager
- Nora Bray — dancing mistress
Cast
- Kenneth Tolson — Sid El Kar
- Bryan Hirst — Mindar
- Stanley F. Taylor — Hassi
- Edwin Smith — Pierre Birabeau
- Geoffrey Haigh — Hadji
- Margaret Briggs — Neri
- Frank Cotton — Benjamin Kidd
- Ted Batley — Capt. Paul Fontaine
- Dennis Bradley — Lieut. La Vergne
- Stephen Robinson — Sergt. De Boussac
- Gloria Lacey — Azuri
- Sheila Beaumont — Susan
- Jean Burluraux — Edith
- Olive Kitchen — Margot Bonvalet
- William Nash — General Birabeau
- Wendy Lodge — Clementina
- John Battye — Ali Ben Ali
- R. Jones — Harem Guard
- N. Mitchell — Harem Guard
Ladies of the Chorus
- Margaret Batley, Margaret Briggs, Jean Burluraux, Elaine Crosby, Joanna Dent, E.A. Gawthorpe, Joy T. Hill, Phyllis Hinchliff, Eileen Jemmison, Leslie D. Kaye, Phyllis Lodge, Wendy Lodge, Ann Mellor, Audrey Moorhouse, Doreen Nash, Angela Robinson, Valerie Robinson, Diane Turton, Brenda Wadsworth.
Gentlemen of the Chorus:
- Dennis Bradley, John Battye, Herbert Buttle, A.G. Cass, Norman Cockroft, Harry Gillies, Neville Graham, Geoffrey Haigh, Michael Hampshire, Bryan Hirst, Geoffrey Hodgson, R. Jones, Dennis Lockwood, Arnold Lodge, Norman Mitchell, G.B. Priestley, Stephen Robinson, Frank Sandford, Edward Waterworth.
Dancers:
- Hilary A. Armitage, Susan Balderstone, Valerie Crowther, Pauline Deighton, Audrey Ford, Jacqueline France, Christine Hilliard, Bernice Langford, Christine Liles, Elaine Lodge, Heather Roberts, Jacqueline Stott, Jean Sykes, Lesley A. Sykes, Josephine Taylor, Ann Wilkes.
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