CINDERELLA London Coliseum, 1958

[Riklaa]

CINDERELLA
London Coliseum, 1958
Decca LK 4303, 1958

LP rip (192 kbps) by Dick Baker, September 2010
[later released on That's Entertainment TER 1045, 1983; both sets of covers reproduced here]

SIDE 1
1. Overture
2. In my own little corner YANA
3. A very special day TOMMY STEELE
4. Do I love you because you're beautiful? BRUCE TRENT and YANA
5. The Prince is giving a ball ROBIN PALMER and chorus
6. Marriage type love TOMMY STEELE
7. Stepsisters' lament KENNETH WILLIAMS and TED DURANTE

SIDE 2
1. Your Majesties, a list of the bare necessities JIMMY EDWARDS, ENID LOWE and chorus
2. When you're driving through the moonlight. . . A lovely night YANA and TOMMY STEELE
3. A lovely night (reprise) YANA
4. Impossible YANA and BETTY MARSDEN
5. No other love BRUCE TRENT and chorus
6. Ten minutes ago YANA and BRUCE TRENT
7. You and me (words and music by TOMMY STEELE) TOMMY STEELE and JIMMY EDWARDS
8. Finale THE COMPANY

COLISEUM
HAROLD FIELDING
presents
TOMMY STEELE
JIMMY EDWARDS
YANA
in
"CINDERELLA"
music by RICHARD RODGERS
lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II

also starring
BRUCE TRENT
KENNETH WILLIAMS
BETTY MARSDEN
Directed by FREDDIE CARPENTER

Scenery and costumes by LOUDON SAINTHILL
Choreography by TOMMY LINDEN
Lighting by MICHAEL NORTHEN
Musical Director: BOBBY HOWELL
Orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Ronnie Hanmer
Choral arrangements by Bill Shepherd
Produced for records by HUGH MENDL

CAST
(in order of appearance)
Portia KENNETH WILLIAMS
Joy TED DURANTE
Fairy Godmother BETTY MARSDEN
Cinderella (The Baron's Daughter) YANA
Baby Bear MARYON LESLIE
Buttons (Servant to the Baron) TOMMY STEELE
The Prince BRUCE TRENT
The Baron GRAHAM SQUIRE
The King JIMMY EDWARDS
Lord Chancellor ROBIN PALMER
The Queen ENID LOWE
Dandini (Aide-de-Camp to the Prince) GODFREY JAMES
The Crystal Fairy PRUDENCE RODNEY
Principal Male Dancer TOM MERRIFIELD
Villagers, Courtiers, Ladies-in-Waiting, Huntsmen, Fairies, etc.

London Cinderella.zip

[Magersfontein]

Good grief! I saw this production, not long after my 11th birthday.

I have to confess that none of the songs stayed in my memory, and it was many years before I realised that they were by Rodgers & Hammerstein. (But then I've long preferred the songs of Rodgers & Hart and those of Hammerstein & Kern to the stuff that Messrs R & H produced together.)

Jimmy Edwards, Tommy Steele, and Yana - yes, I remember them as the King, Buttons, and Cinders. But Kenneth Williams and Betty Marsden? Well, you could knock me down with a crowbar!

Thanks so much for posting this, Rick!

Roger

[Riklaa]

You are welcome Roger. I am so glad that this stirred up such fond memories. ---------------------------- Rick

[353qp5a356i6z]

Hi Rick and Roger:

Many thanks for this terrific album. Roger, I would have loved to have seen this production.

Cheers, katy