Salad Days

Questors Theatre

15th-20th November 1982

Producer – Peter Browning

Musical Director – Peter Holt

Choreographer – Jackie Clarke

Production Manager – Pat Vandepeer

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.

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CAST

Tramp – Richard Matthiae

Jane – Carol Yates

Timothy – Jeffrey Raggett

Timothy’s Mother – Pauline Kendrick

Timothy’s Father – Martin Last

Aunt Prue – Rachel Marks

Lady Raeburn – Wendy Allingham

Heloise – Margaret Ross Collier

PC Boot – Bob Salter

Rowena – Mandy Stenhouse

The Bishop – Peter Barnett

Troppo – Alison Cooper

Sir Clamsby Williams – John Boult

Fosdyke – Richard Matthiae

Inspector – Martin Last

Nigel – Jeremy Newton

Manager – Norman Marks

Fiona – Margaret Boughton

Augustine Williams – David Price

Tom Smith – Peter Vaughan

Waitress – Margaret Ross Collier

Slaves – Ellen Harvey-Smart & Dave Evans

Arm Dancer – Debbie Harkness

Asphynxia – Aranka Zsidi

Ladies – Pauline Beament, Sonya Raymond, Joyce Stewart & Barbara Thomas

Ambrose – Paul Saunders

Marguerite – Debbie Harkness

Anthea – Janet Salter

Electrode – Peter Vaughan

Uncle Zed – Norman Marks

CREW

Designer – David Casey

Production Consultant – Peter Sporle

Costumes – Pauline Kendrick, Debbie Harkness & Wendy Allingham

Lighting design – Paul Chapman

Lighting – Steves Hames & Ian Briggs

Sound – Alan ‘B’ Smith & Geoff Powell

Stage Manager – Godfrey Buckland

Stage Assistants – Heather Mitchell, Grainne O’Kelly, David Poupart, Simon Sutherland, Anne Tustin & Richard Vandepeer

Prompt – Grainne O’Kelly

Front of House Manager – Peter Brown

Box Office – Ellen Harvey-Smart & Wendy Allingham

Rehearsal Accompanist – Denis Gomm & Stephanie Underhill

Sets Construction – Peter Barnett, Pauline Beament, Godfrey Buckland, David Casey, David Poupart, Peter Sporle, Simon Sutherland & Aranka Zsidi

Poster & Programme Design – Dave Evans

Park Furniture – Greenery Ltd