This swashbuckling pantomime was written by Barry Elliott and Dave Morgan with the input of lots of ideas from other Drama Club members – plus those borrowed and/or stolen from other Panto’s on the TV, at local shows and some of the well known radio comedy programmes of the time! Barry Elliott also wrote the songs – so very much a Drama Club ‘production’ from prologue to finale!
When you think about this particular panto it is hard not to let the mind wander beyond the opening scene which, as shown in the gallery below, featured Terry Hooker as the Fairy Twinkletoes, duly strung up by a large rope and billhook to the beams across the stage area and trying, whilst fighting againgst the rope continually turning him around, to offer his immortal opening lines of :
‘The Fairy of this Pantomime I be, With Wings and Wand, As you can see,
From a Copter I have Come, To see this Story is Unspun’
at which point the rope became undone with the resulting injured fairy duly limping off – in high dudgeon, but nevertheless giving the
audience the necessary foretaste of the mayhem that was to follow!!!
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Captain Blood. Guardian Newspaper Report
As Blossom in ‘Captain Blood’
Blossom (Val), Ida Lott (Dave) & Little Drooping Seat (Terry)
Dick (Norma) & White Flower (Jill)
Phil McTrombonerell
Finale
Cast
- The Voice – Old Nick
- Fairy Twinkletoes – Terry Hooker
- Ivor Lott – Barry Elliott
- Hook – Ray Aylott
- Cook – Alan Sandiford
- Crook – Alec Malyon
- Captain Blood – Gordon Aylott
- Ida Lott – David Morgan
- Blossom – Valerie Poore
- Bert ‘Strangeways’ Lott – Peter Boulton
- Dick – Norma Pepperell
- Peggy Lott – Jenny Barnes
- Sammy Lott – Terry Hooker
- White Flower – Jill Cooper
- Sarah Lott – Jenny Lepley
- Pirate Sliddy – Sid Worth
- Mermaid – Gillian Langridge
- Little Drooping Seat – Terry Hooker
- Wampum – Peter Boulton
- Forked Leg – Bob Jackson
- Sitting Bear – John Cade
- Mrs Sitting Bear – Sandra Callaghan
- Trombonist – Phil Pepperell
- Pirates, Serving Maids & Red Indians – Derel Brown, Bob Jackson, John Payne, Barry Trevellyan, Sid Worth, June Allitt, Jennifer Barnes, Hilary Boother, Carol Hagger, Gillian Langridge, Susan Parker, Lorraine Shearing & Iris Suffolk
Stage Management & Set Design
- Martin Kenny
- Irene Long
- Barry Elliott
Scene Crew
- Keith Eley
- Keith Sullivan
Lighting & Effects
- John Oatham
Fight Arranger
- Alan Forster
Make Up
- Judith Riches
Wardrobe
- Marjorie Kett
Properties
- Valerie Watson
- Pamela Neville
Music & Song Lyrics
- Barry Elliot
Music Played by
- Richard Dunn
House Manager
- David Morgan
Produced by Cyril Malyon