Radio Pantomime
[LISTENERS who heard and enjoyed V. C. Clinton-Baddeley’s radio pantomime Aladdin will be interested to know that he has now adapted another -Jack and the Beatstalk-for radio, and that this also is to be broadcast from NZBS stations, starting from *3YC at 7.30-p.m. on Monday, January 11, The programme, which was recorded by the BBC, takes the traditional form of pantomime, but there is as well burlesque and gay music-arranged by Peter Akister from the original score by Gavin Gordon. Marjorie Westbury (who had’ a leading part in Aladdin) is heard as Jack, Fred Yule as the wicked squire (Sir Bertram Bounder, Bt.), C. Denier Warren as Dame Burden, Elaine Wodson as Fairy Moonbeam, and Margot Andersen as the Principal Girl. The part of Wizard Wormwood is played by V. C. Clinton-Baddeley himself. Among the other characters there are, of course, also a cow, sprites, demons, countrymen and the lasses and lads of Puddle Green. The pantomime is produced by Owen Reed, who also produced Aladdin.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 755, 8 January 1954, Page 26
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168Radio Pantomime New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 755, 8 January 1954, Page 26
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