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Aida February 2016
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PRODUCER SALLIE WARD
MUSIC DIRECTOR
FRANCIS GRIFFIN
CHOREOGRAPHER MELANIE BULL
   
AIDA, an Ethiopian slave` CHARLOTTE-ANNE SHIPLEY
RADAMES, a guard in the
Egyptian army		 DAVIDE SORRENTINO
THE KING OF EGYPT PAUL WAITE
AMNERIS, the King's daughter ANNA LOVEDAY
RAMPHIS, High Priest JEREMY ANDREWS
AMONASRO, King of Ethiopia,
Aida's father		 GREGOR KOWALSKI
HIGH PRIESTESS LAURA CHEETHAM
MESSENGER CASPAR LLOYD JAMES


CHORUS OF PRIESTS, PRIESTESSES, SOLDIERS, SLAVES, POPULACE
GEORGINA CASTLE
ROSEMARY CLARK
MAUREEN COLLINS
LUCY DICKSON *
IRENE DOWDALL
KEREN HALL
ELAINE HAWKES
SUE LAWRENCE
SUSANNE LEE
SUE MAINWARING
HILARY MALE
SUSAN MOORE *
VANESSA VAN
    NIEUWENHUIJZEN
SIAN PEARSON
ROWENA WELSH

* Ethiopian captives 		TONY BENTLEY
DAVID DOUGLAS
IAN HENDERSON *
CLAUDE LAWRENCE
JOHN MARSHALL
TIM MARSHALL
GRAHAM McGREGOR-SMITH *
JOHN MILLS
BOB MOORE
DEREK PALMER
EDWIN TROUT
TONY WELSH
NIGEL WARREN
ANDY WILSON


CAST  
ACTORS
SEAN DOUGLAS
ROY FALLOON
COLIN LEE
MARK MAINWARING
RICHARD TROUT
 FAN BEARERS
JOSIE DOUGLAS
CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS
DANCERS
FROM  THE SUSAN HANDY SCHOOL OF DANCE
Dance of the Little Slaves and the Grand March
NIKOLA BILINSKI
MARNIE COX HARRISON
AVA HEWITT
MARGOT HOOGERS
AMELIA MARRIOTT
ANNA THEOBALDS

  
Dance of the Priestesses
Tuesday and Friday
OPHELIA ALMEYDA
ESTHER BINNIE
PHOEBIE PEARSON HALL
MAIA PERKINS
MEGAN WINDSOR

 Wednesday and Saturday
EMMA BULLEN
JENNIFER CANALI
GRACE PEARSON HALL
STEPHANIE HOCKIN
AMY RASHBROOK
Ballet of the Grand March
OPHELIA ALMEYDA
ESTHER BINNIE
EMMA BULLEN
JENNIFER CANALI
GRACE PEARSON HALL
 PHOEBE PEARSON HALL
STEPHANIE HOCKIN
MAIA PERKINS
AMY RASHBROOK
MEGAN WINDSOR


BEHIND THE SCENES  
REHEARSAL PIANISTS JUDITH FLINT
JOANNA MILLER-SHEPHERD
STAGE MANAGER ALEX DICKSON
STAGE CREW MICHAEL BULLEN
FRONT OF HOUSE SARA BOWRING
BERNARD HAWKES
BRIAN HENRY
ANDREW LAWRENCE
GILL OLDRIDGE
COLIN PHILPOT
SHELIA RICHARDS
LIGHTING MICHAEL TAYLOR
OLIVER WELSH
SET CONSTRUCTION AND
PAINTING		 SHELIA RICHARDS
TONY BENTLEY
CLAUDE LAWRENCE
SUE LAWRENCE
GRAHAM McGREGOR-SMITH
BOB MOORE
TONY WELSH
PROPERTIES VANESSA PLEACE
LUCY DICKSON
CLAUDE LAWRENCE
SUE LAWRENCE
SUSANNE LEE
VANESSA VAN
    NIEUWENHUIJZEN
ROWENA WELSH
WARDROBE IRENE DOWDALL
KEREN HALL
LILI TUTTLE
MAKEUP ELAINE HAWKES
LINDA PEACOCK
ROWENA WELSH
COSTUMES THE COSTUME STORE,
    ESSEX
SUE LAWRENCE
GILL OLDRIDGE
SALLIE WARD
PRINCIPAL  WIGS LINDA PEACOCK
PUBLICITY

GRAHAM McGREGOR-SMITH
SUSAN MOORE
POSTER AND PROGRAMME
DESIGN		 tom@tomwardstudio.com
PROGRAMME CONTENT KEITH AND SALLIE WARD
RAFFLE URSULA MARENKO
CHRISTINE MAULER
ANDREW LAWRENCE
SHELIA RICHARDS
ORCHESTRA
VIOLIN

VIOLA
CELLO
DOUBLE BASS
FLUTE
OBOE
CLARINET
BASSOON
HORN

TRUMPET
HARP
TIMPANI
 ALEX POSTLETHWAITE
STEPHANIE COLE
JANE POSTLETHWAITE
JAYNE SPENCER
SHARRON DAVIES
SIMON SALISBURY
HAZEL TODD
DAVID MACKENZIE
OLWEN GRIFFEN
JONATHAN WOOD
FIONA BROCKHURST
JOHN CASTLE
JENNY BROOME
NICK CORNOCK

Orchestral reduction by Francis Griffin
New English translation by Graham Billing