My Fair Lady

Richmond Theatre

16th-21st May 1983

Producer – Valerie Fardell

Musical Director – Peter Holt

My Fair Lady is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.

The show’s 1956 Broadway production was a smash hit, setting a new record for the longest run of any major theatre production in history.

It was followed by a hit London production, a popular film version, and numerous revivals.

This was the company’s 75th Anniversary production and the programme included a facsimile of a hand written note of best wishes & congratulations from Rex Harrison.

CAST

Mrs Eynsford Hill – Pauline Kendrick

Eliza Doolittle – Margaret Boughton

Freddy Eynsford Hill – Jeffrey Raggett

Colonel Pickering – Bob Salter

Henry Higgins – Ken Dixon

Harry – Richard Matthiae

Jamie – Norman Marks

Alfred P Doolittle – Roger Roseboom

Mrs Pearce – Marion McLaren

Mrs Hopkins – Joyce Stewart

Mrs Higgins – Rosalind Mitchell

Lord Boxington – Alan Scott

Lady Boxington – Barbara Tailby Weedon

Zoltan Kaparthy – Steve Alais

The Dancers – Pauline Beament, Sue Brittle, Janet Salter, Peter Barnett, Dave Evans, Jeremy Newton

The Servants – Grainne O’Kelly, Margaret Ross Collier, Mandy Stenhouse, Cathy Vachell, Robert hicks, Peter Vaughan

The Company – Wendy Allingham, Liz Angell, Charlotte Catford, Joy Catford, Wendy Edwards, Mary Fraser, Barbara Hall, Ellen Harvey-Smart, Fiona Hughes, Helen Jenkins, Annie Kitcherside, Rachel Marks, Sonya Raymond, Barbara Thomas, Janet Turner, Anne Tustin, Patricia Vandepeer, Jackie Williams, Carol Yates, Ellis Berg, Len Brittle, John Boult, Paul Knighton, Paul Sanders

CREW

Designer – David Casey

Stage Manager – Godfrey Buckland

Assistants – Nigel Lambert, Trevor Marland, Heather Mitchell, David Poupart, Esther Rowlands, Richard Vandepeer

Wardrobe Mistress – Pauline Kendrick

Rehearsal Pianists – Denis Gomm & Tim Evans

Prompter – Yvonne Byrne

Box Office – Barbara Weedon

House Manager – Peter Brown

Production Consultant – Peter Sporle

Costumes designed & made by – Alan Scott Costumes

Ladies Hats designed & made by – Roy Appleby

Ascot’s Men’s Costumes – S B Watts

Make-up – Margaret Davies & Karen Lewis

Sets by – BROS Workshops & Crane Design

Drapes by – Sandra Buckland & Mandy Stenhouse

Lighting – Steven Montgomery

Sound – Jeremy Lowe

Garden furniture & flowers – Greenery Ltd

Furniture – D Jordan & Sons