- Year
- 1997
- When
- April 1997
- Type
- Musical
Synopsis
The action takes place on board ship during a journey from New York to England. A beautiful young heiress, Hope Harcourt, is travelling with her fiancee Sir Evelyn Oakleigh and her mother. Also on board is Billy Crocker, a stowaway, who has fallen for Hope and determines to stop her marrying Evelyn. Moonface Martin, an American gangster, arranges for Billy to acquire the passport and tickets of a gangster friend who failed to make the trip. Complications soon follow as the pair take on various disguises to avoid arrest, with a nightclub singer, two Chinese gamblers and a Bishop adding to the confusion. As in all these great dramas, everything works out right in the end.
From the company’s records
The cast, production team and synopsis are recovered from the company's own website as it stood in 2004, preserved by the Internet Archive.
That site carried a detail page for each of its ten most recent productions, and this is the only surviving record of who was in this one.
The programme notes record that this fell in the company's fiftieth year at Willenhall Baths, by then also known as the Leisure Centre, which places the move there in 1947 and matches the company's own history.
Gaps in the record
The archive does not record the venue or the production team for this production.
Who made it
Cast
- Reno Sweeny
- Lindsay Roberts-Johnston
- Billy Crocker
- David Gregory
- Hope Harcourt
- Kay Whistance
- Moonface Martin
- Greg Yates
- Bonnie
- Jenny Picken
- Sir Evelyn Oakleigh
- Roger Stokes
- Mrs Wadsworth Harcourt
- Marina Bray
- Elisha J. Whitney
- John Arnold
- Purser
- John Wiley
- Bishop (Henry T. Dobson)
- Ken Lewis
- Chastity
- Sarah Beckett
- Purity (Angel)
- Jodie Rushton
- Virtue (Angel)
- Clare Goodhead
- Charity (Angel)
- Alison Williams
- Reporter (Charlie)
- David Oakley
- Captain
- Stan Till
- Cameraman
- Mac Hammond
- Ching
- Carl Morris
- Ling
- Andrew Cox
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