Lilac Time

The Church Hall, Kitson Barnes

November-December 1961

Producer – Mollie Clark

Musical Direction – Eric Griffiths

Chorus Master – David Ingleby

Das Dreimäderlhaus (House of the Three Girls), adapted into English language versions as Lilac Time, is a Viennese operetta featuring the music of Franz Schubert and gives a fictionalized account of Schubert’s romantic life.

With the Schubert music adapted by Heinrich Berté, the show opened at the Raimundtheater on 15 January 1916 and ran for over 650 performances in its original run in Austria and for hundreds more in Germany, followed by many successful revivals.

The operetta spawned a sequel, entitled Hannerl. The operetta was adapted from the novel Schwammerl by Dr. Raimer H. Bartsch. Opening in the midst of World War I, the operetta was exactly what the audience wanted – a romanticised representation of the “good-old-days”, with a sentimental story and familiar music.

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CAST

Mrs Grimm – Marjory Doughty

Mrs Weber – Doris Kemp

Rosi – Lotta Smith

Novotny – Edward Bellamy

Ferdinand Binder – Clive Jones

Andreas Braun – Richard Stringer

Schani – John Fothergill

Tilli – Barbara Webster

Willi – Veronica Stockwell

Lilli – Patricia Mulligan

Johann Michael Vogl – Geoffrey Needs

Moritz von Schwind – Vincent Mulligan

Kappel – Bob Kirkby

Baron Franz von Schober – Bruce Kent

Franz Schubert – Kenneth Kendrick

Christian Viet – Bernard Mitchell

Count Scharntoff – Edward Maskell

Mrs Viet – Einna Mulligan

Sally – Pauline Grundy

Demoiselle Fiammetta Marini – Brenda Kent

La Marinella – Marjorie Ellene

Dancers – Jane Cliffe & Alison Needs

Street Musicians, Servants, Guests & Vienna Police – Jill Andrews, Jill D Andrews, Ann Bacon, Pat Brian, Joy Catford, Cathie Dennis, Vivienne Farrage, Pauline Grundy, Evelyn Horsburgh, Zoe Miller, Ruth Price, Elizabeth Rowe, Richard Andrews, Ron Bannister, Geoffrey Bishop, Brian Hague, John kedzierski, Anthony McKenna, John Pursey, Colin Simpson, Peter Whitby, Ian Worth

CREW

Accompanist – Judy Campbell

Stage Manager – Keith Campbell

House Manager – Marcus Johnson

Wardrobe Supervisor – Lilian parry

Box Office – Daphne Needs

BAND

Orchestra Leader – Betty Oglethorpe