archive Autumn 1977

Beginning on Monday 19 December
Mother Goose’s Golden Christmas
music and lyrics by David Wood

The Scene is set in The Book, The Forest, At the Giants Castle, In the Moat (very Wet) In the Sky and finally back in the book

Artistic Credits
Director: David Carter
Choreographer: Lorelei Lynn
Designer: David Knapman
Costumes: Jill Pennington
Lighting: Stanley Osborne White
Set built in the Queen’s Theatre Workshop and Painted by Ian Wilson and David Knapman

The Golden Christmas Orchestra
Mr David Carter: Organ
Mr Larry Barton: Bass
Miss Sioned William: Harp
Mr Alan Grant: Drums

Cast
Little Jack Horner David Brenchley	The Big Bad Wolf Jack Chissick	Little Bo Peep Deirdre Dee	Little Tommy Tucker Lennox Greaves
Mother Goose Brian Hewlett	Fairy Lethargia Penny Jones	Little Miss Muffet Nicolette Marvin	The Bigger Badder Wolf Mike Maynard
The Goose Isobil Nisbet	The Giant Tim Pearce	The Spider, the Monster of the Moat and Humpty Dumpty Caroline Swift	Little Polly Flinders Patience Tomlinson

Musical Numbers

Act 1

1. We wish you a Merry Christmas
2. Once upon a time
3. The song of the goose
4. With a huff and a puff
5. My big moment
6. Getting ready for Christmas
7. Sheep, sheep
8. Fairy Lethargia’s magic spell
9. Off to the rescue

Act 2

10. Off to the rescue (reprise)
11. When you’re feeling worried
12. Fee Fi Fo Fum
13. Getting ready for Christmas
14. Happy Christmas Mother Goose
15. Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall
16. Mother Goose’s Golden Christmas