The Merry Widow
Performances 13-16 November 2019
Director: Alison Cooper
Musical Director: Ian Stone
The Merry Widow is Franz Lehar's most popular and enchanting operetta. With dazzling melodies, wit and elegance the story unfolds as the fabulously wealthy widow, Anna, arrives in Paris. Pursued by numerous suitors, complications and misunderstandings abound when at an Embassy party, she rekindles her relationship with her old flame, Danilo. But, will he forsake the Grisettes, the famous dancing girls at Maxim’s, and declare his true feelings for Anna…?
An amateur production by arrangement with Glocken Verlag Ltd (music adapted and arranged by Ronald Hanmer)

Cast
Anna | Sarah Esser Haswell |
Danilo | Peter Thomas |
Baron Zeta | Trevor Allen |
Valencienne | Jane Khan |
Camille | David Clark |
Njegus | David Longes |
St Brioche | Andy Davis |
Cascada | Mark Edwards |
Kromov | Roger Nelson |
Bogdanovitsch | David Eccles |
Olga | Jane Seymour |
Sylvia | Jane Johnson |
Praskovia | Gini King |
Grisettes |
Diane Mayall, Sue Nelson, Margaret Longes Diana Barnsley, Kathy Wilman, Linda Slater |
Parisian Guests | Pam Patch, Vicki Hodges, Edward Marston |