1948 - 1949
Florodora
Florodora, a tropical island in the Philippines; 1900
A wealthy British aristocrat, Cyrus W. Gilfain, stole the secret recipe for the perfume Florodora from the family of one of his farm girls, Dolores. He plans to marry her to remove any doubt about his ownership of the business, but Dolores has fallen in love with Frank Abercoed, Gilfain’s head clerk, who is actually a British aristocrat who fled to the island to avoid an undesirable arranged marriage. Into all of this arrives a comic mystic named Tweedlepunch, who uses the pseudoscience of phrenology to arrange marriages for all the men and women on the island based on the bumps on their heads. Gilfain bribes him to decree that Dolores should marry him, and his daughter, Angela, should marry Abercoed (thereby legitimatizing both his business and aristocratic credentials). Of course, Gilfain is the only one on the island happy with this arrangement, so nearly everyone (including, eventually Gilfain) flees Florodora for England, where they all end up at Abercoed Castle in Wales. After further complications and confusion, all is finally resolved by some additional trickery by Tweedlepunch.
Producer: Mark Brooks
Musical Director: H. Bramwell Bailey
Dance arrangement: Jack Neil
Cast
Adele Roy
Inez, ensemble
Alison Thomas
Lady Holyrood
Charles Kerr
Frank Abercoed
Christine Latham
Calista, ensemble
Dermot Sladen
Leandro
Eileen Mahoney
Angela Gilfain
Eileen Middlestadt
Dolores
Floyd Caza
Cyrus W. Gilfain
Freda Lyon
Violanthe, ensemble
George Wetzstein
Captain Arthur Donegal
Joseph E. Webb
Anthony Tweedlepunch
Ruth Chisholm
Valleda
William Wright
Pym, ensemble
Agnes Bourassa
Ensemble
Alan Holmes
Ensemble
Audrey Bowler
Ensemble
Audrey Gignac
Ensemble
Beatrice Perkin
Ensemble
Bernice McFadyen
Ensemble
Betty Nuth
Ensemble
Bob Andrew
Ensemble
Brenda Plet
Ensemble
Don Armstrong
Ensemble
Dorothy Leard
Ensemble
Earl Larocque
Ensemble
Edna Peters
Ensemble
Eleanor Whitworth
Ensemble
Elsie Parkes
Ensemble
George MacDougall
Ensemble
Grace Schultz
Ensemble
Grant Glennie
Ensemble
J. G. Whitworth
Ensemble
Jean Halley
Ensemble
Joanna Christensen
Ensemble
Joe Pelisek
Ensemble
Juliette Sabourin
Ensemble
Kay Smith
Ensemble
Ken Prior
Ensemble
Ken Ristow
Ensemble
Louise Cameron
Ensemble
Margaret Rowles
Ensemble
Marguerite Allan
Ensemble
Marilyn Moor
Ensemble
Mary Allen
Ensemble
Mary Barrette
Ensemble
Maurice Leclerc
Ensemble
Melva Anthony
Ensemble
Mildred Ker
Ensemble
Muriel Wetzstein
Ensemble
Norma Besserer
Ensemble
Pamela Brooks
Ensemble
Peggie Highley
Ensemble
Percy May
Ensemble
Ruby Rutkowsky
Ensemble
Ruth Piers
Ensemble
Shirley Needham
Ensemble
Ted Hothersall
Ensemble
Theresa Doyle
Ensemble
W. H. Whitworth
Ensemble
William Murray
Ensemble
Production
A. E. MacLaurin
Chorus Master
Christine Allan
Properties
Christine McCulloch Allan
Prompting
Dermot Sladen
Business Manager
Evelyn Fisher
Publicity
George Wetzstein
Programme
Gertrude Gerlach
Make-up
Jean Halley
Entertainment
Jim Fawcett,
Stage Manager
Ken Meyer
Workshop
Mallabar
Costumes by
Marguerite Allan
Librarian
Neil O'Donnell
Lighting by
Pearl Haydon
Costumes
Verne Ridgeway
Scenery design
Winifred Canty
Accompanist
