Wednesday 14 March 2007—Saturday 17 March 2007
Sweet Charity is a tender, poignant and consistently funny look at the adventures, or rather, misadventures in the ways of love encountered by the gullible and guiless lady known as Charity Agnes Valentine - “the lady of the evening” who always gives her heart, and her earnings, to the wrong man. Charity sings, dances, laughs and cries her way through romances with the “animal magnetism” hero, the “ultra-chic-continental” hero, and lastly, the “impossible-to-believe-but-he’s-better-than-nothing” hero.
Sweet Charity is a musical in every sense of the word. Cy Coleman has captured the rhythms and sounds, and Dorothy Fields the vernacular of fun, of 60s New York. It’s a dancing show, too, with great opportunity for use of dramatic movement. There’s one of the all-time great show-stopping numbers when Charity’s dance-hall colleagues sing “Hey, Big Spender!”
Principal Cast
- Charity Hope Valentine
- Kelly-Anne Reilly
- Helene
- Gillian Stewart
- Nickie
- Rochene Deeley
- Herman
- Ian Stewart
- Ursula March
- Lindsay C. McKerracher
- Vittorio Vidal
- David Brown
- Oscar Lindquist
- Gary Redmond
- Daddy Brubeck
- Allan Ayre
- Brubeck Assistant
- William Hart
- Brubeck Assistant
- Michael Reilly
- Carmen
- Louise Cusick
- Rosie
- Shannon Whitehead
Chorus
- Gus Gordon
- Catherine Gahagan
- Christine Long
- Claire Brown
- Stuart Lauder
- Kathleen Redmond
- Cara Keenan
- Karen Brown
- Erica Mitchell
- Shiranne Burns
- Kevin Shiach
- Bert Dobinson
- Rose-Marie Wright
- Anne Burns
- Gemma Priest
- Danielle Redmond
- Scott Davidson
- John Warren
- Shirley Burns
- Kelly Gainty
- Heather Murray
- Libby McGarvey
- Shona McTavish
- Francesca Rullo
- Nicole Scambler
- Andy Thomson
- Linsey Mitchell
Production Staff
- Director
- Frank J. Hotchkiss
- Musical Director
- Andrew Dickie
- Choreographer
- Lynne Seagrave
- Rehearsal Accompanist
- George Inwood
- Wardobe
- Margaret Coates
- Wardrobe
- Susan Stewart
- Wardrobe
- Margaret Yuill
- Lighting
- Moray Coull
- Sound
- Gavin Jenkinson
- Programme Compilation
- Irene Muirhead
- Programme Compilation
- Sue Hicks
- Typesetting
- Carla Valentini
- Programme Designs
- Margaret Yuill
- Front of House Manager
- Anne Shaw
Crew
- Stage Manager
- Carla Valentini
- Stage Crew
- Jamie Stewart
- Stage Crew
- Alan Third
- Stage Crew
- Laura McCafferty
- Stage Crew
- Gary Knox
- Flys
- Willie McCafferty
- Stage Crew
- Eddie McCann
- Flys
- Craig Grant
- Flys
- Neil Grant
- Stage Crew
- Gordon McKerracher
- Stage Crew
- James Ward
- Follow Spot
- David Wilson
- Follow Spot
- Les Brown
- Stage Crew
- Jennifer Douglas