- Year
- 1996
- When
- April 1996
- Type
- Musical
Synopsis
Irene and her mother run the AAAAA Piano Company on 9th avenue. To improve trade Irene installs a telephone, and is rewarded with an invitation to tune the piano at the Long Island home of Mrs Emmeline Marshall and her son Donald. Donald's cousin Ozzie Babson interests Donald in backing a Parisian dress designer, Madame Lucy, in New York, on condition that Irene manages the business. Irene volunteers herself and two friends, Helen and Jane, as models. Madame Lucy is alarmed but turns the three girls into mannequins for a big society event, with Irene masquerading as Contessa Irina O'Dari. Mrs O'Dare attends too, and Madame Lucy's past catches up with him. The collection is a big success.
From the company’s records
Margaret Phipps, accompanist since 1966, stayed with the company until 1996.
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.
Gaps in the record
The archive does not record the venue for this production.
Who made it
Production team
- Director
- Don McClay
- Musical Director
- Paul Lawrence
- Choreographer
- Simon Pugh
- Rehearsal Accompanist
- Margaret Phipps
Cast
- Irene
- Lindsay Roberts-Johnston
- Geraldine O'Hare (Her Mother)
- Eileen Woolley
- Helen Burke (Her Friend)
- Jenny Picken
- Jane McFudd (Her Friend)
- Clare Goodhead
- Donald S. Marshall III
- John Wiley
- Emmeline E. Marshall (His Mother)
- Brenda Arnold
- Madame Lucy (A Dressmaker)
- Greg Yates
- Ozzie Babson (Donald's Cousin)
- Malcolm Hammond
- Arabella (A Debutant)
- Kay Whistance
- Jimmy
- Carl Morris
- Clarkson
- Roger Stokes
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Marina Bray
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Julie Cooper
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Dorothy Copson
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Kay Corbett
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Jayne Crowther
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Carolyn Edwards
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Caroline Hammond
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Barbara King
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Ruth Lewis
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Hannah Perrins
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Alison Poole
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Pat Small
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Eileen Southall
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Ann Stokes
- Ladies of the Chorus
- Renee Till
- Gentlemen of the Chorus
- John Arnold
- Gentlemen of the Chorus
- Mark Friedl
- Gentlemen of the Chorus
- Stephen Green
- Gentlemen of the Chorus
- Colin Hunt
- Gentlemen of the Chorus
- Trevor Law
- Gentlemen of the Chorus
- Carl Morris
- Gentlemen of the Chorus
- David Oakley
- Gentlemen of the Chorus
- Alan Pooler
- Gentlemen of the Chorus
- Roger Stokes
- Gentlemen of the Chorus
- Stan Till
- Gentlemen of the Chorus
- Karl Veltman
- Dancers
- Fiona Collins
- Dancers
- Donna Fletcher
- Dancers
- Samantha King
- Dancers
- Kay Whistance
- Dancers
- Carl Morris
- Dancers
- Karl Veltman
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We would like to know more about Irene.
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