UMS Concert Program, April 3, 1965: National Ballet Of Canada -- Celia Franca

Season: Eighty-sixth
Concert: Tenth
Complete Series: 3468
Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan

1964 Eighty-sixth Season 196S
UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
Charles A. Sink, President Gail W. Rector, Executive Director Lester McCoy, Conductor
Tenth Program Eighty-sixth Annual Choral Union Series Complete Series 3468
National Ballet of Canada
under the direction of CELIA FRANCA
Saturday Evening, April 3, 1965, at 8:30 Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor, Michigan
REBECCA BRYAN JACQUELINE IVINGS ANGELA LEIGH JOYSANNE SIDIMUS LOIS SMITH VERONICA TENNANT
MARITINE VAN HAMEL
LAWRENCE ADAMS JEREMY BLANTON YVES COUSINEAU
EARL KRAUL
Edward Androse Victoria Bertram Christopher Darling Lorna Geddes Elizabeth Keeble Maralyn Miles Bardi Norman Patricia Powers Kathryn Steele Maureen Webster
Charles Burke Anne Evangelista Lois Gochnauer Joan Killoran Samuel Moses Andrew Oxenham Gilbert Rome Leonard Stepanick Miriam Weinstein Marquita Witham
Elaine Crawford Richard Foose Leeyan Granger Howard Marcus Alastair Munro Sylvia Palmer Brian Scott Amanda Vaughan Elaine Werner
Resident Choreographer, Grant Strate
THE NATIONAL BALLET ORCHESTRA
Musical Director and Conductor, George Crum
Assistant Conductor, Walter Babiak
Concertmastcr, Victoria Polley
ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS
PROGRAM
SERENADE
Music by P. Tchaikovsky Choreography by George Balanchine
Staged by Una Kai
Conductor: George Crum
Jacqueline Ivings Veronica Tennant Martine van Hamel
Lawrence Adams Earl Kraul Rebecca Bryan Lorna Geddes Leeyan Granger Amanda Vaughan
Victoria Bertram, Elaine Crawford, Lois Gochnauer, Elizabeth Keeble, Joan Killoran, Maralyn Miles, Bardi Norman, Sylvia Palmer, Patricia Powers, Kathryn Steele, Maureen Webster, Miriam Weinstein, Elaine Werner, Marquita Witham.
Richard Foose, Gilbert Rome, Brian Scott, Leonard Stepanick.
INTERMISSION
Dances From "THE NUTCRACKER," Act II
Music by P. Tchaikovsky
Choreography by Celia Franca after Ivanov
Choreography for Russian Dance by Alex Ursuliak
Costumes by Jurgen Rose
Conductor: George Crum
Spanish Dance: Elaine Crawford, Joysanne Sidimus, Samuel Moses. Oriental Dance: Jacqueline Ivings, Charles Burke, Alastair Munro. Chinese Dance: Edward Androse, Brian Scott.
Russian Dance: Howard Marcus, Christopher Darling, Leonard Stepanick. Marzipan Ladies: Veronica Tennant, Rebecca Bryan, Patricia Powers. Pas de deux: Lois Smith and Earl Kraul.
OFFENBACH IN THE UNDERWORLD
Music by Jacques Offenbach Ballet by Antony Tudor
Arranged by George Crum
Scenery and costumes by Kay Ambrose
Conductor: Walter Babiak
CHARACTERS (in order of appearance)
Madame la Patronne........Lois Gochnauer
Her Little Daughter........Patricia Powers
A Painter............Earl Kraul
Waiters .... Andrew Oxenham and Leonard Stepanick Local Ladies . . Victoria Bertram, Elaine Crawford, Lorna Geddes,
Leeyan Granger, Joan Killoran, Maralyn Miles,
Kathryn Steele, Miriam Weinstein.
Young Men . Richard Foose, Samuel Moses, Gilbert Rome, Brian Scott
A Debutante..........Joysanne Sidimus
Her Friends . Sylvia Palmer, Maureen Webster, Marquita Witham
His Imperial Excellency.......Yves Cousineau
The Operetta Star.........Angela Leigh
A Young Officer.........Lawrence Adams
Queen oj the Carriage Trade.....Martine van Hamel
Synopsis
The action of the ballet takes place in a fashionable cafe in the eighteen-seventies, where people come to relax and to enjoy themselves at the hour when most people go to sleep. As it has an international reputation, visiting celebrities come to see, to be seen, and to be amused. Among these are a famous operetta star and one of her admirers, a grand duke. A debutante of good family, accompanied by three of her friends, arrives, veiled, in order not to be recognized in a place which for families is "out of bounds." There is a young painter, who, like all young painters, is penniless and tries to earn a meagre living by drawing sketches of the cafe's patrons. There is no story to the ballet, for the flirtations that take place at such a place, at such a time, are most often half-forgotten by the next morning. There is neither a sad ending nor a happy ending, but only a closing time.
(This production has been made possible through the generosity of the T. Eaton Company, Limited, Toronto, Ontario).
THE NATIONAL BALLET GUILD OF CANADA
Artistic Director..............Celia Franca
Musical Director..............George Crum
Resident Ballet Teacher............Betty Oliphant
Ballet Mistress..............Joanne Nisbet
Assistant Ballet Master.............David Scott
Assistant to the Artistic Director..........Grant Strate
Pianist................Mary McDonald
General Manager............B. Anthony Lawless
Comptroller................Nora Woods
Company Manager.............Robert Osborne
Publicity Director............George MacPherson
Assistant to the General Manager.........Tuija Hunnakko
Production Manager.............Wallace Russell
Assistant to Wallace Russell...........Donald Acaster
Stage Manager..............Anthony Clarke
Assistant Stage Manager.............Bill Fortais
Wardrobe Master.............James Ronaldson
Assistant to the Wardrobe Master..........Edna Rivers
Master Construction Carpenter.........Gordon Henderson
Production Carpenters.......Ken Calder and David McWhirter
Property Master.............Reginald Taylor
Master Electrician..............Peter Cote
Assistant Electrician.............Ralph Fisher
Costumes executed in the National Ballet Wardrobe, under the supervision of James Ronaldson,
by Hilary Corbett, Daisy Dean, Dennise Loewenguth, Sophie Martin, Cynthia McLennan,
Sarah Pouliot, and Judy Peyton Ward.
Decorative Painting on Costumes by Nina Nodwell.
Millinery by Joan Gleadall, Maxine Graham and Janet Harper.
Fabric Printing by Jeff Brown Fine Fabrics.
Properties executed in the National Ballet Workshop, under the supervision of Hal Travis, by Don Lewis, Elsie Sawchuk, Terry Shrive and Wendy Talfourd-Jones.
Ballet shoes by Frceds, Gamba, Capezio, Dancewear Centre. Johnny Brown, and Michael Bolubash.
Scenic Painting:
The Nutcracker--George Schloegl (Munich), Michael Papp, Tom Gibson La Sylphide--Michael Papp, Tom Gibson
Scenic Painting Assistants--Lawrence Schafer, Jack King, Katy Robertson Lighting Equipment by Century Lighting Canada
INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATIONS, 1965-1966
Season Ticket orders for the Choral Union Series, the Extra Series, and the Chamber Arts Series, now accepted.
CHORAL UNION SERIES (10 events). Subscribers to Block A seats for the 196S May Festival have the privilege of retaining the same locations for the Choral Union Series, provided orders with remittances are received not later than June 1. Block A, 25.OO; Block B, $20.00; Block C, $17.00; Block D, $14.00; and Block E, $12.00.
EXTRA SERIES (5 events). Block A, $12.50; Black B, $10.00; Block C, $8.50; Block D, $7.00; Block E, $6.00.
CHAMBER ARTS SERIES (7 events) priced at $18.00--$15.00--$12.00.
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