The Dancing Years
- Summary
- BBC production of Ivor Novello’s musical play The Dancing Years, the first presentation in the Musical Playhouse series.
- Theatre play
- The Dancing Years by Ivor Novello [more information]
- Date of transmission
- Wednesday 11 February 1959
- Time
- 8.30pm
- Series
- Musical Playhouse
- Channel
- BBC Television
- Production company
- BBC
Credits
- Producer
- Graeme Muir
- Jack Carter (credited with ‘Production scenes staged by’)
- Adapted for Television by
- Alfred Shaughnessy
- Book by
- Ivor Novello
- Composer
- Ivor Novello
- Lyrics
- Christopher Hassall
- Musical Direction
- Eric Robinson
- Orchestra Directed by
- David McCallum (and the George Mitchell Singers)
- Sets / Settings
- Clifford Hatts
- Dancer
- Joy Carter
- Dancer
- Joyce Gearing
- Dancer
- Seamus Gordon
- Dancer
- Jeanne Lusby
- Dancer
- Graham MacCormick
- Dancer
- Graham Smith
- Cast
Leslie Baker An Officer Sari Barabas Maria Zeigler Nancy Evans Cacille Kurt Charmian Eyre Countess Lotte Nora Gordon Hattie Watney Joyce Gregg Second Reporter Stewart Guidotti Carl Philip Howard Footman / Third Reporter June Laverick Grete Schone Graham Leaman Dock Official / Joseph Patricia Mort Lilli / Kathie Laurence Payne Rudi Kleber Janek Smigielski Otto John Stoddart A Nightwatchman / Ceruti Peter Tuddenham Franzel Malcolm Watson Oscar Frederick Wheldon Stage-Decor Keeper / First Reporter Dennis Wood Prince Charles Metterling
Additional details
- Extant status
- No archival copy is known to exist.
- Play tags
- Austria, as theme or setting; class issues / differences; music drama
Print sources
- Title
- Brighter Fortnights (Newspaper review)
- Author/creator
- Maurice Richardson (Reviewer)
- Reference
- The Observer, 15 February 1959, p. 18
- Title
- Dancing Years in a New Medium: Dim Reflection of Novello’s Style (Newspaper review)
- Reference
- The Times, 12 February 1959, p. 5
- Title
- Radio Times, 6 February 1959 (Magazine)
- Linking notes
- cover page image and pp. 4 (article) and 17 (listing)
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