Learning on ScreenGay’s the Word
- Summary
- 1952 BBC live studio production of Ivor Novello’s final musical Gay’s the Word, presented by many of the same company (excepting Lizbeth Webb) who had presented it at the Saville Theatre, London, in February 1951 and then on tour (Radio Times, 19 December 1952, p. 45).
- Theatre play
- Gay’s the Word by Ivor Novello [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Friday 26 December 1952
- Time
- 8.15-10.00pm
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Television Production by
- Graeme Muir
- Theatre Producer
- Jack [John Norman] Hulbert (1892-1978)
- Playwright
- Ivor Novello
- Adapted for Television by
- Graeme Muir
- Music
- Ivor Novello
- Lyrics
- Alan Melville (1910-1983)
- Orchestra Directed by
- Robert Probst
- Orchestra Directed by
- Eric Robinson
- Singer
- Ronald Alexander
- Singer
- Alma Booker
- Singer
- Brian Crossley
- Singer
- June Grace
- Singer
- Mary Hill
- Singer
- Laurie Lawrence
- Singer
- Vivien Spaulding
- Singer
- John Vernon
- Sets / Settings
- Richard Henry
- Dances Arranged by
- Eunice Crowther
- Dancer
- Doreen Arden
- Dancer
- Denny Bettis
- Dancer
- Pat Bint
- Dancer
- Peter Chiver
- Dancer
- Eunice Fivyer
- Dancer
- Leonie Franklin
- Dancer
- Barbara Hawkes
- Dancer
- Anna Kutzka
- Dancer
- June Laverick
- Dancer
- Roger Palmer
- Dancer
- David Spurling
- Dancer
- Beryl Thomas
- Cast
Maidie Andrews Monica Stevens Margot Bryant Lucy Emerton Court Sir Claude Burton Cicely Courtneidge Gay Daventry Eunice Crowther Birdie Wentworth Beryl Harrison Margaret Fallowfield Jack [John Norman] Hulbert (1892-1978) The Compere Carl Jaffé Count Silvano Molly Lumley Miss Cheadle Prudence Nesbitt Madame Nicolini Val Norton Mr Nespoulos Julia Shelley Linda May Tomlin Mrs Parkes Thorley Walters Peter Lynton John Wynyard Stage Doorkeeper
Additional details
- Origination
- Live from studio
- Vision original
- Monochrome
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- musical; theatre or acting, as theme
Print sources
- Title
- Radio Times, 19 December 1952 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- ilisting, brief article, p. 45
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