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Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet: Double Bill

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on BBC Two England

featuring two of the company's most popular ballets:
Les Patineurs: an evocation of the Victorian skating party.
Choreography FREDERICK ASHTON Music GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Arranged by CONSTANT LAMBERT Design WILLIAM CHAPPELL and Pineapple Poll: based on W S Gilbert s Bumboat Woman's Story and ARTISTS OF
SADLER'S WELLS ROYAL BALLET ORCHESTRA OF THE
SADLER'S WELLS ROYAL BALLET conducted by BARRY WORDSWORTH SADLER'S WELLS ROYAL BALLET director PETER WRIGHT
Videotape editor DAVID HILLIER
Sound VIC GOODRICH. Lighting JOHN MASON Directors JOHN SELWYN GILBERT , BOB LOCKYER The Big Top season was made possible by support from Midland Bank

Contributors

Unknown:
Frederick Ashton
Music:
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Arranged By:
Constant Lambert
Design:
William Chappell
Conducted By:
Barry Wordsworth
Director:
Peter Wright
Editor:
David Hillier
Editor:
Sound Vic Goodrich.
Unknown:
John Mason
Directors:
John Selwyn Gilbert
Directors:
Bob Lockyer
Blue boy:
Kim Reeder
Blue girls:
Lois Strike, Marion Tait
White couple:
Carl Myers
White couple:
Vyvyan Lorrayne
Red girls:
June Highwood,
Red girls:
Sherilyn Kennedy
Red girls:
Artists Of Sadler'S Wells Royal Ballet
Choreography:
John Cranko
Music:
Arthur Sullivan
Arranged by:
Charles MacKerras
Design:
Osbert Lancaster
Captain Belaye, of HMS:
Hot Cross
Bun .....:
Desmond Kelly
Pineapple Poll, a bumboat woman:
Marion Tait
Jasper, pot boy at The Steam Packet:
David Morse
Blanche, Belaye's fiancee:
Christine Aitken
Mrs Dimple, her aunt:
Lois Strike
Source: Radio Times

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