1979
Annie Get Your Gun - Naughty Marietta - Cinderella
Annie Get Your Gun
The Synopsis
Frank Butler, the champion sharpshooter of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show, has challenged Annie Oakley, the local champion of Cincinnati, Ohio. To everybody’s amazement, Annie wins the match. She falls in love with Frank & joins the show. Trying to win audiences away from the Far East Show of Pawnee Bill, Annie angers Frank, who joins the rival show. However, Chief Sitting Bull is so impressed that he adopts Annie & agrees to pay the expenses of an European tour. Returning broke; the company decide they must merge with Pawnee Bill’s show, which they think is making money. When it is discovered that the rival show is also broke, Sitting Bull finds the solution – Annie must sell her medals. However, tempers flare & Annie challengers Frank to a shooting match. At first Annie is winning, but Sitting Bull advises her to lose on purpose. This she does, thus winning frank & ensuring a successful merger.
The Production Team
Director – Fred Jones
Choreographer – Annette Emerton
Musical Director – Robert Beazley
Rehearsal Pianist – Pat Gleeson
The Cast
Patricia Rafter (Annie Oakley), David Ivins (Frank Butler), Nola Verrills (Winnie Tate), Jeff Ferguson (Tommy Keeler), Marjorie Simpson (Dolly Tate), Robert Fough (Charlie Davenport), Bob Neil (Chief Sitting Bull), Peter Burgess (Buffalo Bill), Brian Wellsmore (Pawnee Bill), Janelle Ingles, Timothy Jeffs, Belinda Grant, Samantha Jeffs, Emma Ferguson, Steven Rafter, Jenny Gleeson, Megan Ferguson, Christopher Foggin, Robert Fough, Quentin Bell, Graham Seaman, Jane Sartori, Marion Lacey, Fred Waski, Robert Foggin, Paul Sheldon, Beverley Stimpson, Claude Mahony, Lorraine Grant, Robyn Bland, Suzanne Bunn, Leanne Deeds, Elizabeth Devlin, Michelle Eason, Monica Foggin, Cathy Hall, Eileen King, Elizabeth Lee, Marion Palazzi, Louise Richards, Jane Sartori, Denise Slee, Beverley Stimpson, Julianne Weeden, Caryn Williams, Fred Brown, Nicholas Larkin, Robert Lashmore, Michael Paraskezas, Paul Sheldon, Alan Shepherd, Harry Smith, Robert Sparke
Cinderella
Synopsis
The story of Cinderella is very old and is believed to be of Eastern origin. In Egypt, she is not Cinderella but Psammetichus. She appears in 16th century Germany and is in early French fairy tales as Cendrillon, or as Cendroi. Her story is known in every European and quite a few Eastern languages but – not with a glass slipper! In the translation from the French, “vair” meaning fur was incorrectly written as “verre” meaning glass. Cinderella has had a glass slipper ever since.
Production Team
Director – Bob Neill
Musical Director – Pat Gleeson
Choreographer – Annette Emerton
Rehearsal Pianist – Pat Gleeson
The Cast
Madeleine Witzlsperger (Cinderella), Paul Sheldon (Prince Christopher), Barbara Benson (Joy), Pat Boogaerdt (Portia), Warren Patterson (King Maximilian), Lorraine Grant (Queen Constantina), Fay Salmon (Plume Lady), Rick Burston (Herald), Les King (Chamberlain), Harry Smith (Courtier), Robert Foggin (Chef), John Ritchie (Steward), Michele Camp, Mary Christopher, Diana Devlin, Jan Doherty, Wendy Dowdell, Monica Foggin, Cathy Hall, Pat Hams, Anne Hinton, Janet Kay, Raye Killoway, Eileen King, Pamela Ko, Mary-Louise Lucas, Anne Miller, Judith Ritchie, Beverley, Stimpson, Elizabeth Tolhurst, Caryn Williams, Gordon Clarke, Bruce Davies, Nicholas Larkin, Michael Paraskevas, Glen Salmon, Gregory Boogaerdt, Jennifer King, Rebecca King, Margaret Davey, Paul Davey, Christopher Foggin, Melissa Foggin, Ashley Grant, Belinda Grant, Jennifer Gleeson, Anne Kay, Amanda Lopez, Maria Lopez, David Spenser, Kylie Spenser.
Naughty Marietta
The Synopsis
Captain Dick Warrington and his men arrive in New Orleans both to capture Bras Pique, the pirate, & to find Contessa Marietta D’Altena. She has fled from a forced marriage disguised as one of the Casket Girls, prospective brides for the settlers. Marietta discloses herself to Dick, who reluctantly agrees to disguise her as Rafaello, the long lost son of the Marionette Theatre owner, Rudolpho. At the Quadroon Ball Etienne Grandet, the son of the Lieutenant Governor, outs his sultry slave, Adah, up for auction & Dick buys her. Angrily, Marietta announces her identity & agrees to marry Etienne. Dick frees Adah, who reveals Etienne’s secret – he is Bras Pique! However, he shifts the blame to Silas, the Governor’s whipping boy, who had pretended to be Bras Pique to impress the girls. Marietta finally learns the truth, & when Dick sings her “Dream Melody”, all ends happily in the tradition of musical comedy.
The Production Team
Director – Alan Shepherd & Patricia Rafter
Choreographer – Cathy Hall
Musical Director – Reni Rugers
Pianist – Pat Gleeson
The Cast
Beverly Stimpson (Marietta), David Ivins (Captain Dick Warrington), Barbara Benson (Lizette), Ted Williams (Silas Slick), Warren Patterson (Etienne Grandet), Patricia Boogaerdt (Adah), Allan Ingles (Lt. Governor Grandet), Peter Burgess (Florenz), Bob Neill (Rudolfo), Les King (Sir Harry Blake), Wendy Dowdell (Felice), Madeline Whitzlsperger (Fanchon), Monica Foggin (Nanette), Paul Sheldon, Diana Devlin, Val Van Doorn, Elizabeth Gray, Cathy Hall, Pat Harris, Anne Kay, Janet Kay, Anne Miller, Maree O’Reilly, James Sartori, Maureen Smith, Robert Foggin, Nicholas Larkin, Michael Paraskevas, Harry Smith, Fred Waski, Greg Higgs
