Royal Birthday at the Ballet (1980)

Cast & Credits

• Cast

  • • presenter

      Humphrey Burton

    • Mam'zelle Angot

      Rosalyn Whitten

    • a barber

      Michael Coleman

    • the caricaturist

      Stephen Jefferies

    • the aristocrat

      Jennifer Penney

    • a government official

      Derek Rencher

    • the chief of police

      Graham Fletcher

    • the officer

      Derek Deane

    • cast member

      artists of The Royal Ballet

    • gendarme

      Paul Benson

    • gendarme

      Anthony Molyneux

    • butcher

      Garry Grant

    • tailor/pirate

      Robert Jude

    • bootmaker/café proprietor

      Christopher Carr

    • fishwife/savage

      Anita Young

    • florist

      Jennifer Jackson

    • fruit seller/minstrel

      Julie Lincoln

    • vegetable seller/pirate

      Rosemary Taylor

    • soldier

      Michael Batchelor

    • soldier

      Nicholas Dixon

    • soldier

      Antony Dowson

    • soldier

      Matthew Hawkins

    • soldier

      Ross Macgibbon

    • soldier

      Andrew Ward

    • guest

      Bryony Brind

    • guest

      Judith Howe

    • guest

      Sally Inkin

    • guest

      Genesia Rosato

    • guest

      Jacqui Tallis

    • guest

      Pippa Wylde

    • savage

      Douglas Howe

    • minstrel

      Simon Horrill

    • officer's lady

      Hilary Tickner

    • incroyable

      Stephen Beagley

    • incroyable

      Ashley Page

    • marveilleuse

      Oona Benson

    • grisette

      Angela Cox

    • grisette

      Gillian Kingsley

    • grisette

      Elizabeth Morgan

    • grisette

      Karen Paisey

    • grisette

      Christina Parker

    • grisette

      Christine Woodward

    • on-screen participant

      Queen consort to George VI Elizabeth

• Credits

  • Production:

    • Production Company

      BBC

    Writing:

    • A Ballet in Three Scenes by

      Léonide Massine

    Design:

    • Scenery and Costume by

      André Derain

    Music:

    • Music by

      Alexandre Charles Lecocq

    • {Orchestra}

      Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet Orchestra

    • Leader

      Paul Wood

    • Conducted by

      Ashley Lawrence

    • Orchestrated by

      Gordon Jacob