Salad Days

St Mary's Hall, Twickenham

October 1973

Producer – Robin Davies

Musical Director – Stephanie Underhill

Choreographer – Lynne James

Salad Days is a musical with music by Julian Slade and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Julian Slade.

It premiered at the Bristol Old Vic in 1954, and transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre in London on August 5 of that year, running for 2,283 performances to become the longest-running show in British musical theatre until overtaken by Oliver!.

The title is taken from William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra: “My salad days, When I was green in judgement, cold in blood, To say as I said then!”, and the phrase is now used to refer to ones days of youthful inexperience.

Billed as a stop-gap production between visits to Richmond Theatre

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CAST

Jane – Rita Ashbourne

Timothy – Steve Alais

Timothy’s Mother – Joan Flory

Timothy’s Father – Ken Frisby

Aunt Prue – Marjorie Doughty

Tramp – George Johnston

Lady Raeburn – Veronica Nankivell

Heloise – Lynne James

P C Boot – Richard Matthiae

Rowena – Barbara McDowell

Bishop – George Johnston

Troppo – Bob Martyn

Sir Clamsby Williams – David Armstrong

Fosdyke Inspector – Fred Paterson

Nigel – Alan Titchmarsh

Manager – Jeffrey Raggett

Fiona – Wendy Taylor

Augustine Williams – Mike Knight

Tom Smith – Ray Collier

Asphynxia – Joy Cooper

Ambrose – Richard Matthiae

Marguerite – Yvonne Butler

Anthea – Eve Hebb

Electrode – Marion Rule

Uncle Zed – Martin Last

Pat Giles, Pauline Kendrick, Marta Law, Marion McLaren, Zoe Miller, Sue Thornton, Kenneth Nankivell

Dancers – Frances Hayles, Jennie Robinson, Sandra Thompson, Miriam Underhill

CREW

Assisted by – Barbara McDowell

Stage Manager – Ian Finch

Assisted by – Jim Fearon, Steve Mallinson, Norman Payne, Anthea Phelps, Joyce Tatlow

Properties – Barbara Weedon, Roma Batty, Eveleen Horsburgh

Lighting – Martin Haydock & Bob Underhill

Sound – John Mitchell

Wardrobe – Kathleen Bellamy

Set Design – Alan Titchmarsh

Costume Design – Wendy Taylor

Assisted by – Pauline Kendrick & Marion Rule

House Manager – Peter Brown

Accompaniment – Stephanie Underhill & Mike Baxter

Box Office – Therese Davies

Business Manager – Peter Brown

Photo credit: Robin Davies