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Raise a Cheer

March 5th, 6th & 7th 1953

Gaiety Theatre, Douglas

1951 - Raise the Roof

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Raise a cheer, raise a cheer

The Coronation Year is here.....

We'll show the Queen we are sincere

so altogether RAISE A CHEER!

 

Programme

Overture - George Broad, L.R.A.M.
Prologue - Marie Radcliffe, with Coronation Heralds
1. Scouts' Jamboree (Scouts trained and conducted by Miss D. Fargher)
2. Ring Out The Bells - St. Aubyn School

    The Queen's Horses - St. Aubyn School

3. Mirrors of the Past

Court Ladies - Les Show Girls

"Pavane" - Les Girls

"Gavotte" - St. Aubyn Senior Students

"Galliard" - St. Aubyn Intermediates

"Minuet" - St. Aubyn Juniors

Minstrel Boy - Keith Scarffe

4. Howard W. Rudd
5. Music on a Palette

"Again" - Sung by Marie Radcliffe

Ensemble - St. Aubyn Senior and Intermediates

"Ann Boleyn" - Pat Thompson

6. The Babes in the Wood

Robin Hood - Don Thompson

Maid Marion - Shirley Faragher

The Baron - Howard Hampton

Nurse - Lili Radcliffe

With Audrey Hampton, Sandra Clayton, Vicki Moorhouse, Kenneth Bawden, Rodney Bashall, Laurence Kermode, Dennis Bawden, Robin Hood's Merry Men, Spirites, Jumping Frogs and Teddy Bears (St. Aubyn Talented Babies).

Scene 1 - Babes Bedroom; Scene II - Lane in the Woods; Scene III - The Woods

INTERVAL

7. A Modern Diversion

Pagan in the Parlour - Danced by Anne & Carole

Just One of Those Things - Don Thompson and Les Girls

Jazz Pizzacto - The Juniors

Finale - St. Aubyn Stage Branch

8. Dan Minay & Eileen Peters
9. Cameos from History

"Mary Queen of Scots" - Hilda Hampton (Depicting the last few hours of the tragic Queen)

"Princes in the Tower" - Vicki Moorhouse and Elaine Smith

(Richard III had the young Princes imprisoned in the Tower, and it is alleged they were smothered to death, their bones being found some 200 years later at the foot of a stairway.)

10. Demesne Seven - "I wonder Why" - with Les Show Girls
11. "Ministering Angel" - with Howard Hampton, Marie Radcliffe, Laurence

                                                    Kermode and Bill Platt.

12. A Prayer for the Queen - St. Aubyn Pupils
13. "Youth Takes The Stage" - Compere: John Taylor with Cherry Garrett,

                                                                Rosemary Quine and Sandra Fingerhut.

14. Finale - "A Swift Journey Through The British Isles"

Maids of Harlech - Intermediates St. Mary's Ceilidhe Club - Traditional

A Breath o' the Highlands - Les Girls

Harry Lauder - Howard W. Rudd

"Elizabeth" - Sung by H. Hampton, L. Kermode and B. Platt

"There'll Always be an England" - Full Company

 

Items in the above Programme colours GREEN are selectable

 

His Excellency Sir Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas visits The Group backstage

His Excellency Sir Ambrose Dundas Flux Dundas visits The Group backstage

 

A Group of Old Scouts with Mr C.Potter

A Group of Old Scouts with Mr C.Potter

Hon. Organiser of The B.P. Guild of Old Scouts

left to right

W.N.Douglas   C.Potter   T.O.Fisher   C.C.Kneale   T.H.Hampton   T.Deighan   R.A.Douglas   F.Ward

 

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