Cast – Back Row: Dick, Peter, Denis, Norma, John, Sid, Cyril, John, Ray, Alan, Gordon & Alan Front Row: Gillian, Jill, Hilary, Val, June, Carol, ? Jill, Sandra.
Walthamstow Guardian Newspaper Report – 17 January 1969. See typed text below.
GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER REPORT Text
The Newspaper Report of ‘Aladdin’ originally appeared in the website of Dickie Dunn – walthamstowhistory.com
“ALADDIN”
‘WORK & KEENESS’
“Marsh Street Drama Club at Walthamstow has been awarded the Constance Power Trophy by the National Operatic & Dramatic Association – and never more was the award so truly deserved.
The award, which the society will hold for one yerar, was given initially for their presentation last season of ‘The Town that Would Have a Pageant’, but behind all this are the reasons for getting it. The company’s name was put forward by NODA’s local representative Norman Anderson as being a society whose ingenuity, perspicacity and initiative had overcome the extreme difficulties that it worked under.
In the beginning the stage and hall at the old Markhouse School, where the group put on their productions, was simply a token. By hard work, endurance and enthusiasm this has now been transformed into something like a Little Theatre and the productions of the society have likewise benefitted”
Cast:
- Beck – Ray Aylott
- Call – Alan Sandiford
- Grand Visier – Peter Kett
- Wishee Washee – Alan Robson
- Sunlight (The Laundry Dog) – Barry Heath
- Emporer of China – John Cade
- Princess So Shi – Carol Hagger
- Pekoe – Jill Cooper
- Widow Twankey – Richard Dunn
- Aladdin – Gillian Langridge
- Abanazer – Gordon Aylott
- Head Girl – Carol Jones
- Slave of the Ring – Sandra Callaghan
- Slave of the Lamp – Robert Jackson
- Villagers – Valerie Poore, Norma Pepperell, Ann Anderton, Cynthia Wellings, John Payne, Sid Worth
- Villagers – Teresa Wooley, Susan Parker, Hilary Boother, June Allitt, Jennifer Barnes & Bill Chapman,
- Dancers – Sylvia Easy, Janice Porter, Vikki Martin, Susan Harrington, Jacqueline Bird and Patricia Persau
Stage Manager
- Peter Boulton
Musical Director & Pianist
- Jennifer Holly
Properties
- Iris Sandiford
Scenery
- John Oatham, Linda Jones, Anne Shaylor, Bill Chapman and Bob Jackson
Lighting Design & Sound Effects
- Richard Dunn
Lighting Operators
- John Oatham & Dave Pauldin
Wardrobe
- Marjorie Kett & Members of the Cast
Choreography
- Mrs T Taylor
Dance Pianist
- Mrs I Quick
House Manager
- Gordon Aylott
Company Secretary
- Agnes Townsend
Produced and Directed by Cyril Malyon