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The Gaieties

Revue devised by Carroll Gibbons and Douglas Furber.
Music and Lyrics: Carroll Gibbons and Douglas Furber.

Winter Garden Theatre, London - 29 March 1945

The Cast included:

Avril Angers, Hermione Baddeley, Walter Crisham, Carroll Gibbons and His Orchestra, Leslie Henson, Graham Payn, Cyril Smith

Programme

OVERTURE - CARROLL GIBBONS AND HIS ORCHESTRA
A PROLOGUE WRITTEN AND SPOKEN by A. P. HERBERT

  1. AT YOUR SERVICE. Scene : An Airfield—anywhere.

  2. ROUND THE MAP … (Gibbons and Furber) - Introducing FREDDIE CARPENTER'S DANCERS

  3. HERMIONE BADDELEY and LESLIE HENSON
    " MISS THE BUS " … (Greatorex Newman)

  4. WALTER CRISHAM decides
    " NOT TO GET LIT UP " ... (Hubert Gregg)

  5. " I THINK OF YOU " (Gibbons and Furber) - GRAHAM PAYN, JOAN ALEXIS AND THE DANCERS

  6. HERMIONE BADDELEY commands the WOMEN'S CHEERY WORKERS Including MOLLY GAY, DECIMA KNIGHT and PRUDENCE HYMAN '
    Scene : A Government Office ... (Adam Leslie)

  7. LESLIE HENSON and WALTER CRISHAM are
    " THE WHITEST MEN YOU KNOW " (John Watt and Michael North)

  8. GRAHAM PAYN presents a famous old picture
    " THE BOYHOOD OF RALEIGH " … (Various)

  9. DECIMA KNIGHT'S " HEART IS WITH A CONVOY " (Vivian Ellis)

  10. HERMIONE BADDELEY and LESLIE HENSON are
    " TWO FIGURES OF SPEECH " In a Naval Dockyard (Ellis and Henson)

  11. AVRIL ANGERS natters a bit — a case of mind over natter!
    "I didn't like it " — VIVIAN ELLIS

  12. WALTER CRISHAM and PRUDENCE HYMAN feel
    " THEY MUST HAVE BEEN DREAMING " (Hubert Gregg)

  13. AVRIL ANGERS, DECIMA KNIGHT, and JOAN ALEXIS
    are"THREE LITTLE WRENS" ... (Vivian Ellis)

  14. HERMIONE BADDELEY and LESLIE HENSON present
    another picture, finished off by
    CYRIL SMITH … (Denis Waldock)

  15. HELLA TOROS and the DANCERS all spick and Spanish
    In " MUSIC OF THE NIGHT " - (Edward Horan and Frank Eyton)

  16. It's off the record but WALTER CRISHAM is really a
    " WATER DIVINER " (Leslie Julian Jonesand John Jewett)

  17. A few moments with Shakespeare Scene : A Court in Venice
    (Produced by Bud Flanagan)

    Portia … HERMIONE BADDELEY
    Antonio … GRAHAM PAYN
    Narissa ... JOAN ALEXIS
    Bassanio … MOLLY GAY
    Duke of Venice … CYRIL SMITH
    Shylock … LESLIE HENSON

  18. To give Carroll Gibbons a rest, Leslie Henson brings on OUR TOWN BAND (Vivian Ellis)

  19. THE SNEAK OF ST. SWITHiNS … (Adam Leslie)

    Miss Forsythe … JOAN ALEXIS
    Myrtle Merrivale … HERMIONE BADDELEY
    Dagmar Dangerville … WALTER CRISHAM
    Veronica … JOAN ALEXIS
    Alice Harriss … MOLLY GAY
    Lily … DECIMA KNIGHT
    Hilda … AVRIL ANGERS
    Miss Cora Caldicott - Head Mistress … LESLIE HENSON
    Hobson, the Aged Gardener … CYRIL SMITH

  20. JOAN ALEXIS

  21. ON SECOND THOUGHTS (Richard Hearne)

    Mrs. Botpenny … AVRIL ANGERS
    Bert - from Chappells … LESLIE HENSON
    Clarence from Chappells … CYRIL SMITH
    Mr. Botpenny … GERRY FITZGERALD

  22. GRAHAM PAYN and HERMIONE BADDELEY agree
    " IT WAS SWELL WHILE IT LASTED " (Carroll Gibbons)

  23. IN THE DIM-OUT … (Nicholas Phipps)
    A lonely soldier … WALTER CRISHAM
    (By request) - Scene : Parliament Square

  24. GRAHAM PAYN and THE DANCERS
    LEAD THEMSELVES A DANCE ... (Gibbons and Furber)

  25. HERMIONE BADDELEY
    is a " VERY PRUDISH DUDE" (Harold Purcell)

  26. WALTER CRISHAM and PRUDENCE HYMAN allow
    " A HOLIDAY FOR STRINGS " … (David Rose) - Staged by George Carden

  27. AVRIL ANGERS tears on again

  28. TO-MORROW THE LUNTS (Denis Waldock)

    Alfred Lunt … LESLIE HENSON
    Lynn Fontaine ... HERMIONE BADDELEY
    Her Son … WALTER CRISHAM
    Scene : Stage of the Lyric Theatre

  29. DANCING GOWN ... GRAHAM PAYN ... (Vivian Ellis)

  30. HERMIONE BADDELEY and WALTER CRISHAM have their own opinion of Strauss … (Hubert Gregg)

  31. LESLIE HENSON will burst into song with a ballad by B. C. Hilliam

  32. HELLA TOROS presents " MARIONETTES " (Edward Horan)

  33. GRAHAM PAYN and WALTER CRISHAM get into their
    " WHITE TIE AND TAILS " … (Zoe & Hubert Gregg)

  34. CARROLL GIBBONS. accompanies "THE GAIETIES" Into THE FINALE