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1957

Rose Marie

📅 17-26 October 1957 📍 The Playhouse Theatre (Mechanics' Institute) 🎬 James Ellison

Rose-Marie is a romantic operetta set in the Canadian wilderness, following a French-Canadian innkeeper and a Mountie as love, jealousy, and justice collide against the backdrop of rugged frontier life. It features music by Rudolf Friml and Herbert Stothart, with lyrics by Otto Harbach.

Creative team

  • James Ellison Director
  • Charles Comley Musical Director
  • Barbara Wheeler Choreographer
  • Reginald Hipperson Chorus Master
  • George Price Stage Director

Principal cast

  • Deryck Johnstone Sergeant Malone
  • Pearl Dixon Lady Jane
  • Frederick Stroud Blackeagle
  • Joe Hinde Edward Hawley
  • Kenneth Powell Emile La Flamme
  • Vera Bennett Wanda
  • David Wainwright Hard-boiled Herman
  • Reginald Hipperson Jim Kenyon
  • Brenda Cook Ethel Brander
  • Beryl Done Rose Marie La Flamme
  • Ronald Beavington A Caretaker

Ensemble

Hilda Bassett, Kay Beavington, Dulcie Dunne, Violet Field, Jean Guntrip, Enid Hogden, Joan Hartless, Peggy Jones, Helen Hipperson, Enid Lane, Anita Miles, Patricia Ranford, Mavis Robins, Marie Shailes, Pauline Symons, Phyllis Whitewood, George Anderson, Reg Baker, Derek Bates, Gordon Bezer, Eric Blanchard, Michael Chivers, Victor Dibbin, Frank Endersby, Harry Fleetwoo, Edward Fyson, William Gibbs, Michael Halliday, Alec Hemmings, Percy Jones, John Purdy, Sydney Sheldon, Roy Tucker, Clifford Winslow, Valerie Despres, Jeanne Hancock, Beryl Hurley, Patricia Kane, Betty Oldland, Everald Poole, Zena Rawlins, Margueritte Simmons, Betty Symonds, Barbara Wheeler