15-Jun-80
Programme booklet for the event. Devised by Timothy West and directed by David King. Performance included George Baker, David King, Isla Blair, Dilys Laye.
The programme in part one was:
Piano introduction:
From the Diary of Mrs. Archer Clyde
Mr. Harris Sings a Comic Song (Jerome K. Jerome)
The man who broke the bank at monte Carlo (which replaced The Nightmare Song from ‘Iolanthe’ by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan.)
The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God (Milton Hayes)
From the Journal of Queen Victoria
Tommy (Rudyard Kipling)
To All You Ladies Now on Land (Charles Sackville, Music by John Callcott)
The Wreck of the “Hesperus” (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Piano solo: La Fileuse (Joaquim Raf)
The Homes of England (Mrs. Hemans)
From “The Diary of a Nobody” (George and Weedon Grossmith)
Little Jim (Edward Farmer)
Where is your Boy tonight? (Unknown)
The Lips that Touch Liquor (Harriet A. Glazebrook)
Father’s a Drunkard, and Mother is Dead (“Stella”, music by Mrs. Parkhurst)
To Mr. James Scrymgeour, Dundee (William McGonagall)
Temp’rance Bells (Author and Composer Unknown)
The programme for Part Two included:
A Boy’s Best Friend is his mother (Henry Miller, Music by Joseph Skelly)
A Child’s Thought (Bertha Moore)
The Orphan Boy (Mrs. Opie)
Maying (Charles Kingsley, music by Alice Mary Smith)
A Proposale (from “The Young Visiters” by Daisy Ashford)
Gentle Alice Brown (W.S. Gilbert)
The Mistletoe Bough (Thomas Haynes Bayly)
O Mother Take the Wheel Away (words and music by “Claribel”)
The Cane-Bottom’d Chair (W. M. Thackeray)
Piano solo: Simple Aveu (Thomé)
From “The Silver King” (Henry Arthur Jones)
Home, Sweet Home (John Howard Payne, music by Henry Bishop)
There was an interval of fifteen minutes.
The event was run by ‘Platforms’ an “association of well know actors and actresses who have banded together to give performances throughout his country and abroad.”
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