Wednesday 11 March 1987—Saturday 14 March 1987
Rogers and Hammerstein’s famous musical, which has delighted theatre audiences for almost forty years centres on Billy Bigelow, a fairground barker on the carousel. He charms Julie and Carrie, two of the patrons of the carousel owned by the brazen Mrs Mullin, who herself has designs on Billy.
He eventually marries Julie, whlie Carrie marries Mr Snow, a poor but ambitious fisherman. Billy is restless and unhappy in his married state especially with a baby on the way, an hankers after his life of freedom on the carousel.
So when his shady friend Jigger suggests that an eays way to make money would be to rob Mr Bascombe, the local mill owner, Billy is easily led astray…
Principal Cast
- Carrie Pipperidge
- Alison Waterson
- Julie Jordan
- Sandra Haxton
- Mrs Mullin
- Gillian Runciman
- Billy Bigelow
- David R. Mitchinson
- David Bascombe
- Hugh Hewitson
- Nettie Fowler
- Anne Shaw
- Enoch Snow
- Graham Russell
- Jigger Craigin
- Ronnie J. Muir
- Arminy
- Barbara Kennedy
- Policeman
- Edward Donohoe
- Policeman
- Roddy MacLeod
- Captain
- Ian Stewart
- Heavenly Friend
- Brian Long
- Starkeeper/Dr. Seldon
- Gordon Hogg
- Louise
- Irene Allison
- Enoch Snow Jr.
- Kenneth Love
- Principal
- Bill Scrimgeour
Chorus
- Edith Wilson
- Ruth Gray
- Margaret McDougall
- Elspeth Mitchell
- Margaret Brough
- Isobel Gosland
- Fay Hewitson
- Christine Long
- David McKiver
- Elizabeth Paterson
- Elizabeth Binnie
- Eileen McGuire
- Margaret Coates
- Myra Mackie
- Irene Muirhead
- Jessie Kelly
- Maureen A. McKeith
- Catherine Long
- Maria Donohoe
- Ena Williamson
- Lesley Ferguson
- James McKeith
- Gillian Anderson
- Mary Troup
- Edna Beveridge
- Elizabeth Clarke
- Sara Ewan
- Esther Keith
- Molly MacLeod
- Nicola Moran
- Anne Panton
- Wilma Peacock
- Nan Stevenson
- Sandra Young
- Scot Martin
Children
Production Staff
- Producer
- Irene Buie
- Musical Director
- Hilary Vernon
- Wardrobe
- Cath Mitchinson
- Props
- Marian Knight
- Set Design
- Irene Buie
- Set Design
- Wilma Simpson
- Set Design
- Carla Valentini
- Stage Décor
- Bernard J. McKeith
- Backcloths
- Border Studio
- Backcloths
- Popplewell Productions Ayr
- Lighting and Sound
- Hugh Shiels
- Lighting and Sound
- Martin Kenicer
- Lighting and Sound
- Ian McCrossan
- Prompt
- Evelyn Ramage
- Rehearsal Accompanist
- Daniel L. Letham
- Programme Design
- Bernard J. McKeith
- Typesetting of Programme
- Swains (Glasgow) Limited
Crew
- Stage Manager
- Wilma Simpson
- Assistant Stage Manager
- Carla Valentini
- Assistant Stage Manager
- Tom Garrett
- Stage Crew
- Andrew Butler
- Stage Crew
- Patrick Long
- Stage Crew
- Stephen Long
- Stage Crew
- David Coates
- Stage Crew
- Kevin Little
- Stage Crew
- Gregor Campbell
- Stage Crew
- Gordon Macpherson
- Stage Crew
- Niall Mackie
- Stage Crew
- Jim Harkins