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Brenda Law - Alison Parkison - Julie D'Este - Mandy Clarke - Helen Durow - Jesse Thornley - Dominic Stone
Joan Law -
Joan Waterfall - Ed Hubbard - Betty Glover
Donna Reeve - Katie Skinner - Tina Hawley - Brian Durow - Martyn Cooke
Cinderella had a ball in Mapperley
Parish Church on Friday: and Saturday.
The church; was packed with around
125 people each night for two
performances by the apperley
Village Players.
Production went very well and will
probably be followed by a similar event
next year.
The cast was: Vocal chorus, Thursday
Club members Doris Davies, Muriel
Durow, Janet East, Betty Glover, Mabel
Martin, Harriet Riley, Doris Smith and
Jessie Thornley; augmentation, Bruce Allen, Nora Czypak, Doris |
Pringle and Christine Woodward: soloist, Celia Stone;
Cinderella, Becky Stone; father, Phil
Carter; step-mother, Janet East; Matilda,
Joan Law; Charlotte, Joan Waterfall;
Buttons, Ed Hubbard; clowns, Ivor
Pearson, Julie D'este, and Phil Carter;
children's chorus, Timothy Birkin,
Deborah Cooke, Tina Hawley, Linda
Hubbard, Dawn Hutchinson, Marie
Marsden, Janine Pearson, Sarah Pearson,
Donna Reeve, Katie Skinner, Pippa Stone;
herald, Brian Durow; Prince Charming,
Bill Skinner; Bandini, Dominic Stone;
Fairy God Mother, |
Betty Glover; page
boy, Timothy Birkin; Teddy boy, Phil
Carter:dancers,- Mandy Clarke, Julie D'este,
Helen Durow, Brenda Law, Alison
Parkinson, Mark Pearson, Daryl
Pritchett, Richard Skinner and
Caroline Woodward.
The script and song lyrics were, by
Ruth Allen; choreography Celia
Stone; production, Ruth Allen; pianist,
Charles Stone; fanfare written by
Harry Doughty and played by Martin
Cooke; song harmonics, Muriel Durow;
stage hands, Trevor Durow and Phillip
Ogden: |
lighting by Walt, Bromley &
Ed & operated by Molly Skinner;
make-up artists & dresses, Julie
Douglas, Helen Durow, Brenda Law,Brenda Law, Jean Marsden, Christine
Redgate ,and Becky Stone; prompt,
Pat Gould; wardrobe Doris Pringle,
Christine Redgate, Kate Robinson and
Celia Stone; sign writing Lois Lowe;
publicity, Hazel Coleman and Kate
Robinson; photography, Olive Beckett;
refreshments, Carol Purdy and Christina
Woodward; programmes Doris Pringle
and transport Phil Carter And John
Robinson. |
May 2019 – following a photograph of the panto being shown in the recent edition of the Ilkeston Life newspaper, I was contacted by the writer of the pantomime, Ruth Allen. She provided the following–
The Players didn't exist when I started; I just accumulated people as we went along. And I got into trouble, too: it was the days of Edie Pearson, Alice Redgate, Connie Wood and Mabel Martin, and I wrote a couplet (it was all in rhyming couplets) which went '.......(can't remember the first bit)..... and with legs like table, Edith, Connie, Alice, Mabel. Not unnaturally, they got a bit cross and I had to go and eat humble pie.
We didn't have a stage until only a few days before we were due to perform, and a guy called Phil who lived up near the Durows jumped up and down and fixed us a stage, and carpeted it! Becky Stone (now at the Bottle Kiln) was Cinders, and Bill Skinner was Prince Charming and he could sing!
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