1946 - 1947
Naughty Marietta
New Orleans, c 1780….
Countess Marietta, the young daughter of a noble Italian family residing in France, being unhappy at home, runs away and disguises herself as one of a number of marriageable 'casquette' girls sent by the King of France to the French settlement of New Orleans.
Upon her arrival, Marietta is befriended by an American frontiersman, Captain Richard Warrington, and falls in love with him. She also arouses the affection of the Lieutenant-Governor's son, Etienne Grandet, a polished young villain also known as 'Bras Piqué', the leader of a movement to establish Louisiana as an autonomous territory, separate from both France and the burgeoning United States of America. He has recognized Marietta as the missing Countess and is anxious to win her hand, but he has troubles of his own in getting rid of a former attachment, the quadroon Adah.
Marietta, in order to escape detection, with the connivance of Captain Warrington, disguises herself as the daughter of Rudolfo, keeper of a theatre. Here Etienne visits her and she is persuaded by him to attend a masked ball, where she is on the point of accepting his hand in marriage when Captain Warrington arrives on the scene with his men, reveals Etienne as the notorious 'Bras Piqué', and ... well, it’s an operetta!
Producer: Mark Brooks
Music Director: H. Bramwell Bailey
Cast
A. Paul Carrier
2nd Sailor, ensemble
Barbara VanDine
Lizette
Cliff Watts
Lamplighter, ensemble
Dermot Sladen
Town Crier, Flunkey, ensemble
Dorothy Hyder
2nd Flower Girl (heard singing offstage), ensemble
Elsie M. Parkes
1st Flower Girl (heard singing offstage, ensemble
Esther Henry
Marietta d'Altena
George MacDougall
East Indian, ensemble
George W. Wetzstein
1st Sailor, ensemble
Gertrude Gerlach
Felice (Flower Girl), ensemble
Herb. Sills
Flunkey, ensemble
J. Gilbert Cardinal
Fortune Teller, ensemble
J.H.W. Currie
Ragpicker, Beggar, ensemble
James G. Scott
Rudolpho
Joanna Christensen
Fanchon (Flower Girl), ensemble
John Moore
Lieutenant-Governor Grandet
John Roy Harrison
understudy Etienne Grandet, Night Watchman, ensemble
John T. (Ted) Morin
Captain Richard Warrington
John Thorne
Etienne Grandet
Johnston Little
Sir Harry Blake
Joseph E. Webb
Silas Slick
Ken Prior
Fruit Vendor, ensemble
Mary Martin
Nanette (Flower Girl), ensemble
Maurice Leclerc
Beggar, ensemble
Mrs. Gordon Stranks
Adah
Ralph Dale
Florenze
Ralph Guitard
Sacristan, ensemble
Ruth Piers
Graziella, ensemble
Stan Bailey
East Indian, ensemble
Ted Hothersall
Sugarcane Vendor, ensemble
V.T. Pownall
Red Indian
A. E. MacLaurin
Ensemble
Aileen Cocker
Ensemble
Art McLaren
Ensemble
Arthur E. Pownhall
Ensemble
Arthur V. Webb
Ensemble
Audrey O'Neill
Ensemble
August S. Johnson
Ensemble
Barbara Clauson
Ensemble
Barbara Watts
Ensemble
Beatrice Perkin
Ensemble
Bernice McFadyen
Ensemble
Bill Murray
Ensemble
Blodwen Hutton
Ensemble
Daisy Mae Checkley
Ensemble
Daisy Mae Latimer
Ensemble
Doreen E. Elliott
Ensemble
Doris Rodger
Ensemble
Dot Mattice
Ensemble
Evelyn Fisher
Ensemble
Evelyn MacLaurin.
Ensemble
Evelyn Mills
Ensemble
Florence LeMarquand
Ensemble
Frances Jealous
Ensemble
Gordon Morriscey
Ensemble
Gordon Morrison
Ensemble
Grace Schultz
Ensemble
Harold W. Smith
Ensemble
Helen D. Scott
Ensemble
Holly LeMarquand
Ensemble
Isabel Forward
Ensemble
Ivy Smith
Ensemble
J. H. Douglas Jewell
Ensemble
Jack Beharrell
Ensemble
Jean Halley
Ensemble
Jean Sinclair
Ensemble
Julia Pearce
Ensemble
Juliette Sabourin
Ensemble
Kathleen S. Skinner
Ensemble
Lorna Bethune
Ensemble
Lorna Logen
Ensemble
Lorne Grummisch
Ensemble
Lorne R. Carson
Ensemble
Louise Cameron
Ensemble
Louise Smith
Ensemble
Lyn Snodgrass
Ensemble
Margaret Rowles
Ensemble
Mary Allen
Ensemble
Mary Barrette
Ensemble
Mervyn Pettapiece
Ensemble
Mildred Ker
Ensemble
Muriel Wetzstein
Ensemble
Norman W. Tepley
Ensemble
Pauline Goode
Ensemble
Pauline Stoll
Ensemble
Peggy C. Hare
Ensemble
Peggy Highley
Ensemble
Peggy Moore
Ensemble
Percy May
Ensemble
Rosalie Sladen
Ensemble
Ruby M. Rutkowsky
Ensemble
Ruth Chisholm
Ensemble
Shirley Needham
Ensemble
Ted Nicholson
Ensemble
Theresa Doyle
Ensemble
W. (Bill) Frost
Ensemble
Wm. C. Tierney
Ensemble
Production
Betty Brooks
Make-up
Dermot Sladen
Business Manager
Geoffrey Farrow
Properties
Horace Butler
Programme
Hubert Kennedy
Stage Manager
J. E. Webb
Costumes
J. G. Scott
Publicity
Jean Halley
Entertainment
Leonard McEwen
Prompting
Margaret Taylor
At the Piano
Mary Allan
Librarian
Neil O'Donnell
Lighting
Nesta Toumine
Dances
Ted Hothersall
Workshop
Verne Ridgeway
Scenery
W. L. Murray
Box Office
