Sweet Charity
Hampton Hill Theatre
October 2002
Director & Choreographer – Matthew Chandler
Music Director – Brett Wellcome
Production Manager – Lynne Shirley
Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It is based on Federico Fellini’s screenplay for Nights of Cabiria. However, where Fellini’s black-and-white Italian film concerns the romantic ups-and-downs of an ever-hopeful prostitute, in the musical the central character is a dancer-for-hire at a Times Square dance-hall.
The musical premiered on Broadway in 1966, where it was nominated for 12 Tony Awards, and also ran in the West End as well as having revivals and international productions.
CAST
Charity Hope Valentine – Jane Poole-Wilson
Nikki – Annie Deasy
Helene – Deb McDowell
Oscar – John Nugent
Vittorio Vidal – Bryan Cardus
Daddy Brubeck – Stuart Kennedy
Ursula – Lizzy Ross
Ethel Herman – Janet Simpson
Rosie – Julia Avitable
Carmen – Denise Truscott
Frency – Rachel Acus
Betsy – Lizzie Brignall
Honey – Rebecca Stewart
Roxie – Anne Campbell
Cassie – Karen Swift
Suzanne – Hannah Rogers
Gwen – Jan Croxson
Dancers – Sue Cambridge, Caroline Futter, Jessica Green, Cathy Makepeace, Roger Fairhead, Adam Millard, Duncan Woolley
Chorus – Clare Henderson-Roe, Amanda Scott, Linda Sirker, Maria Waters, Patrick Martin, Jim Trimmer
CREW
Choreographic Assistant / Dance Captain – Jessica Green
Stage Manager – Jane Bean
