Learning on ScreenRomance in Candlelight [excerpt]
- Summary
- A BBC transmission of an excerpt from the new musical play Romance in Candlelight, transmitted from a special performance before an invited audience from the Piccadilly Theatre, London.
- Theatre play
- Romance in Candlelight by Eric Maschwitz and Siegfried Geyer (1883-1945) [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Sunday 18 September 1955
- Time
- 7.45pm (45 mins)
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Director
- Richard Bird
- Television Presentation by
- Barrie Edgar
- Book by
- Siegfried Geyer (1883-1945)
- Book by
- Eric Maschwitz
- Composer
- Sam Coslow
- Lyrics
- Sam Coslow
- Conductor
- Alexander Faris
- Singer
- Trevor Griffiths (1935-)
- Singer
- Wendy Harcourt-Brown
- Singer
- Maureen McGregor
- Singer
- Roy Pattison
- Sets / Settings
- Doris Zinkeisen
- Costumes
- Doris Zinkeisen
- Cast
Patricia Burke Caroline Richard Curnock François Roger Dann Marquis de la Chasse Sally Ann Howes Margaret Jacques Pils Gaston, a valet
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- musical
Print sources
- Title
- La Vie Parisienne (Magazine review)
- Author/creator
- Philip Hope-Wallace (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Listener, 22 September 1955, pp. 480-81
- Title
- Radio Times, 16 September 1955 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- listing on p. 14 illustrated by an image of actors Sally Ann Howes and Jacques Pils in their respective roles
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