MUSICALS - 1940s

Musicals: 1940

1940 (Sep): THE LAND OF SMILES - Lehar (Leeds Grand Theatre)
Richard Tauber, Josie Fearon [12pp, 5.5x8.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, plan of public air raid shelters; four punch holes, else VG] (£3) SOLD

Musicals: 1941

1941: GET A LOAD OF THIS - James Hadley Chase (London Hippodrome)
Vic Oliver, Jack Allan, Celia Lipton, Valerie White, Gaylord Brian, Harold Wilkinson [6pp triple-fold, 3.25x7.5; cast list, list of musical numbers; uncommon; VG] £4

1941: LADY BEHAVE - Stanley Lupino, Edward Horan (His Majesty's)
Stanley Lupino, Pat Kirkwood, Meinhart Maur, Judy Campbell, Sally Gray [4pp; cast, list of scenes and musical numbers; uncommon; slightly grubby and rumpled, else VG] (£3) SOLD

Musicals: 1942

1942: BLOSSOM TIME - Ackland/Schubert (Lyric)
Richard Tauber [4pp] (£4) SOLD

1942: THE LAND OF SMILES - Lehar (Lyric)
Richard Tauber [4pp; marks , vertical crease] (£3) SOLD

1942: DU BARRY WAS A LADY - Cole Porter (His Majesty's)
Frances Day, Arthur Riscoe, Bruce Trent, Brenda de Banzie [4pp, 5x8.5; cast, scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1942: ROSE MARIE - Friml/Stothart/Harbach/Hammerstein (Stoll)
Marjorie Browne, Raymond Newell, George Lacy, Phyllis Monkman, David Davies, Paul Jackson [4pp, 5.5x8.5; cast, scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; VG] £2

Musicals: 1943

1943: THE KNIGHT WAS BOLD - Harry Parr Davies (Piccadilly)
Adele Dixon, Sonnie Hale, Robert McLachlan [4pp; cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers; pencilled date on front, else VG] (£2) SOLD

1943 (May): THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER - Oscar Straus (Wimbledon Theatre)
Sidney Burchall, Kitty Reidy, Dorothy Langley, Beryl Seaton, Martin Lawrence, Leo Sheffield (of Gilbert and Sullivan fame), Darroll Richards [4pp; cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers; rumpled, a few tiny edge tears, else VG; an unusual wartime survivor] (£4) SOLD

1943: IT'S TIME TO DANCE (Winter Garden)
Jack Buchanan, Andrew Leigh, Fred Emney, Elsie Randolph, Mabel Twemlow [4pp, 5x8; cast, scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

Musicals: 1944

1944: SOMETHING IN THE AIR (Palace) Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Ronald Shiner, Terence Conlin [6pp, 3.25x8; minor edge damage, else VG] (£2) SOLD

Musicals: 1945

1945 (Jan): SOMETHING IN THE AIR - Sherwin (Palace)
Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Ronald Shiner; dir:Jack Hulbert [6pp triplefold, 3.4x8; cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers; spine partially split, else VG] (£3) SOLD

1945: BIG BOY - Gibbons (Saville)
Fred Emney, Richard Hearne, Margaret Halstan [4pp; VG] £3

1945: THE QUAKER GIRL - Monckton (Stoll)
Celia Lipton, Gwen Harris, Ivy St.Helier, Billy Milton; des:Doris Zinkeisen [4pp; unusual coloured cover; VG] (£4) SOLD

1945: PERCHANCE TO DREAM - Novello (London Hippodrome)
Ivor Novello, Olive Gilbert, Margaret Rutherford, Roma Beaumont, Robert Andrews [4pp, 5x7.6; cast, scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; date written on cover, punch holes, else VG] £2

1945: FOLLOW THE GIRLS (His Majesty's)
Arthur Askey, Hugh French, Wendy Toye [4pp, 5x8; cast, scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £2

1945: GAY ROSALINDA - J.Strauss/Korngold (Palace)
Irene Ambrus, Ruth Naylor, Cyril Ritchard, Trevor Glynn, Jay Laurier; Richard Tauber conducting Symphony Orchestra, dir:Leontine Sagan [4pp, 5x8; cast, scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £4

1945: GAY ROSALINDA - J.Strauss/Korngold (Palace)
Irene Ambrus, Ruth Naylor, Richard Dolman, Trevor Glyn, Jay Laurier; Richard Tauber conducting Symphony Orchestra, dir:Leontine Sagan [4pp, 5x8; cast, scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; very slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

Musicals: 1946

1946: CAN-CAN - Offenbach/Max Catto (Adelphi)
Margaret Davison, Charles Dorning, Elizabeth French, Clifford Mollison, Leo Franklyn, Doreen Duke [4pp, 5x8; cast, scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; VG] £2

1946: MERRIE ENGLAND - German (Princes)
Heddle Nash, Linda Gray, Dennis Noble, Anna Jeans, Morris Sweden [4pp, 5x8; cast, scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; very slightly rumpled, else VG] (£4) SOLD

1946: BIG BEN - Ellis (Adelphi)
Lizbeth Webb, Trefor Jones [4pp; creases, minor marks, else VG] £2

1946: SONG OF NORWAY - Edvard Grieg, Wright & Forrest (Palace Theatre) Souvenir Brochure
Very unusual early souvenir; Janet Hamilton-Smith, John Hargreaves, Arthur Servent, Halina Victoria, Bernard Ansell, Moyra Fraser, John Pygram, Jan Lawski, dir:Charles Hickman, choreography: Robert Helpmann, Pauline Grant [20pp; 17+ biographies with photos, 7 production photos, synopsis, articles, illustrations; light creases and slightly crinkled, otherwise VG; very uncommon] (£5) SOLD

1946 (Apr): SONG OF NORWAY - Edvard Grieg, Wright & Forrest (Palace Theatre)
Arthur Servent, Jean Anderson, Alan Clarke, Halina Victoria, John Hargreaves, Charles Doran, Bernard Ansell, Janet Hamilton-Smith, Moyna Cope, John Pygram, Moyra Fraser, Jan Lawski, dir:Charles Hickman, choreography: Robert Helpmann, Pauline Grant [8pp; cover photo, cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; VG] £3

1946 (Dec): SONG OF NORWAY - Edvard Grieg, Wright & Forrest (Palace Theatre)
Arthur Servent, Jean Anderson, Raymond Cooney, Halina Victoria, John Hargreaves, Charles Doran, Bernard Ansell, Janet Hamilton-Smith, Moyna Cope, John Pygram, Moyra Fraser, Jan Lawski, dir:Charles Hickman, choreography: Robert Helpmann, Pauline Grant [8pp; cover photo, cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; minor annotations, else VG] £3

Musicals: 1947

1947: PERCHANCE TO DREAM - Novello (London Hippodrome)
Ivor Novello, Olive Gilbert, Zena Dare, Muriel Barron [8pp; minor edge damage, rumpled] £3

1947: 1066 AND ALL THAT - Alfred Reynolds, Reginald Arkell (Strand)
Leslie Henson, Doris Hare, Richard Littledale, Wallas Eaton [6pp; extensive synopsis of scenes and characters, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, else VG] £3

1947: BLESS THE BRIDE - Ellis (Adelphi)
Lizbeth Webb, Georges Guetary [8pp] (£3) SOLD

1947: OKLAHOMA! - Rodgers/Hammerstein (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)
Harold Keel, Betty Jane Watson, Dorothea MacFarland, Walter Donahue, Mary Marlo, Marek Windheim, Henry Clarke, Wm. J. McCarthy [8pp, 5.4x8.75; minor marks else VG] (£4) SOLD

Musicals: 1948

1948: BURLESQUE - George Manker Watters, Arthur Hopkins (Princes)
Marjorie Reynolds, Bonar Colleano, Jack Billings, Sydney James, William Kemp, Zoe Gail, dir: Richard Bird [8pp; cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; slightly rumpled, tiny tear to back cover, else VG] £3

1948 (Dec): THE CHOCOLATE SOLDIER - Straus (Opera House, Manchester)
Roy Royston, Marta Labarr, Gordon Needham, Allen Christie, Fred Emney [8pp; cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers; rumpled] £3

Musicals: 1949

1949: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN - Irving Berlin (London Coliseum)
Dolores Gray, Bill Johnson, Harry Moreny, William Thomson, Arthur Bell, Barbara Babington, Nancy Willand, Irving Davies, Robert Moore, James Clarke, John Greene, Don Johnson, Patricia Garnett, Edmund Dalby, John Garside, Rolf Alexander, Betty Hare, dir:Charles Hickman [8pp; photographic cover, cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; lightly rumpled] £4

1949: LILAC TIME (People's Palace Theatre, Mile End Road)
John Lewis, Celia Lipton, Esme Lawton, Peter Evans, Gerald Deacon, James Durban, Wilfred Gartrell, Bruce Trent, Brenda Gay; dir:Pat Hillyard [8pp, 5x7.5; cast, synopsis of scenes, musical numbers, credits; uncommon; VG] £3

1949 (Aug): WALTZES FROM VIENNA (People's Palace Theatre, Mile End Road)
Eric Starling, Fay Lenore, Thomas Round, Ann Drummond-Grant, Maureen Clarke, dir: Stanley Bell, c:Jack Morgan [8pp, 5x7.5; cast, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers, credits; uncommon; VG] £3

1949 (Dec): GLAMOROUS NIGHT (People's Palace Theatre, Mile End Road)
Barry Mackay, Sylvia Cecil, Peggy Fame, Paul Rycroft, Robin Cull, John McHugh, Charles Quartermaine, Joan Wood, dir:Ralph Reader [8pp, 5x7.5; cast, synopsis of scenes, credits; uncommon; VG] £3

1949: BELINDA FAIR - Maschwitz, Lennox, Strachey (Strand)
Adele Dixon, John Battles, Wallas Eaton, Geoffrey Hibbert, Daphne Anderson, Ferdy Mayne, David Croft [8pp, 5x7.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers; loose from staple, horizontal fold, else VG] £3

1949: KING'S RHAPSODY - Novello (Palace Theatre, Manchester)
Olive Gilbert, Vanessa Lee, Victor Boggetti, Michael Anthony, Zena Dare, Robert Andrews, Ivor Novello, Phyllis Dare, Denis Martin; dir:Murray MacDonald [12pp, 6.4x9.25; cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers, 7 photographs of the principal artists, credits etc.; horizontal bend, else VG] (£3) SOLD

1949: KING'S RHAPSODY - Novello (Palace Theatre, Manchester)
Olive Gilbert, Vanessa Lee, Zena Dare, Ivor Novello, Phyllis Dare [4pp, 5x7.5; cast list, synopsis of scenes, list of musical numbers; reading copy only, w.tape adhesions] £1

1949: BOB'S YOUR UNCLE - Noel Gay (Saville)
Vera Pearce, Austin Melford, Gordon Humphris, Hamish Menzies, Sheila Douglas-Pennant, Valerie Tandy, Leslie Henson, Lionel Blair (as a Waiter), Mantovani and His Orchestra [6pp, 5x8; cast, scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; VG] £3

1949: BRIGADOON - Lerner/Loewe (His Majesty's)
Philip Hanna, Patricia Hughes, Noele Gordon, Bill O'Connor, Hiram Sherman, Paddy Stone, Roy Russell, Margo Cunningham [8pp, 5x8.5; cast, scenes, list of musical numbers, credits etc.; attractive full-colour cover; unusual in this condition - VG] £4

1949: OKLAHOMA! - Rodgers/Hammerstein (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)
Chris Robinson, Isabel Bigley, Betty Jo Jones, Victor Griffin, Jennie Gregson, Harry Ross, Walter Peterson [8pp, 5.4x8.75; date pencilled on cover, else VG] £4

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