The Gipsy Baron

Autumn 1959

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Autumn 1959 saw the Society put on Johann Strauss's opera The Gipsy Baron.

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CAST

Otto (Factotum to Kalman Zsupan, Mayor of Zrinyi)
Mishka )
Pali       ) Young Gipsy men
Franzi  )
Vanya  ) Young Gipsy girls
Arletta (Zsupan's only daughter)

Kalman Zsupan (the Mayor and a wealthy breeder of pigs)
Mirrabella (Zsupan's housekeeper)
Czipra (Queen of a Gipsy tribe)
Saffi (her grand-daughter, a Gipsy Princess)
Count Kareska (a Civil Commissioner)
Sandor Barinkay (a young returning exile)
Captain of the Hussars
Graf Peter Homonoy (the Governor of the Province)

John Williams
Cyril Pilcher
John White
Audrey Hirst
Murry Earnshaw
Pauline Gibbs and
Eileen Walker

Keith Browne
Betty Herbert
Margaret Morgan

June Pickard
Alex Buchanan

Leonard Manly
Robert Lambert

Bryn Rees

Chorus of Gipsies, Villagers, Soldiers, Vivandieres, Guests etc.

Mary Baker
Margaret Edmond
Villia Harper
Doreen Herbert
Annette Hulbert
Sally Leech
Jane Lansdown
Anne Lansdown
Pauline Russell
Thora Sherman
Maud Venn
Elizabeth Webb
John Barclay
Malcolm Dando
John Graves
Brian Haddrell
Harold Herbert
Stephen Hardie
Laurence Knight
Kenneth Stallard
James Wheatland
Billy Wells

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CREW

Producer and Musical Director
Chorus Mistress and Conductor
Stage Director
Property Mistresses

Stage Lighting


Wardrobe Mistress
Make-up


Costumes

Winifred Spruce

Grace Gibb
Winifred Spruce
Janet Gayler
Elsie Jones
Ernest Griffiths
Ronald Edmonds
Douglas James
Vera Browne
Freddie Davis
Trixie Lewis
Gladys Routley
Charles Fox Ltd.

House Managers

Box Office

Scenery

Donald Thorn
Sidney Sherman
Margery Graves
Moyna Stallard
Designed and executed by Richard Graves with the help of the Scenery Club

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ORCHESTRA

Strings



Woodwind

G.Morton (Leader)
M. Harvey
W. Muir
J. McRea
C. Fry
V. Henson

Brass

Percussion
Pianos

J. Gibbs
M. Nicholls
B. McClellan
Margery Graves
Margaret Gray

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PHOTOS

Coming soon!