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
