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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

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Alison Thomas

Lady Holyrood

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Charles Kerr

Frank Abercoed

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Christine Latham

Calista, ensemble

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Dermot Sladen

Leandro

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Eileen Mahoney

Angela Gilfain

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Eileen Middlestadt

Dolores

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Floyd Caza

Cyrus W. Gilfain

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Freda Lyon

Violanthe, ensemble

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George Wetzstein

Captain Arthur Donegal

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Joseph E. Webb

Anthony Tweedlepunch

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Ruth Chisholm

Valleda

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William Wright

Pym, ensemble

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Agnes Bourassa

Ensemble

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Alan Holmes

Ensemble

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Audrey Bowler

Ensemble

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Audrey Gignac

Ensemble

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Beatrice Perkin

Ensemble

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Bernice McFadyen

Ensemble

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Betty Nuth

Ensemble

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Bob Andrew

Ensemble

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Brenda Plet

Ensemble

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Don Armstrong

Ensemble

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Dorothy Leard

Ensemble

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Earl Larocque

Ensemble

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Edna Peters

Ensemble

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Eleanor Whitworth

Ensemble

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Elsie Parkes

Ensemble

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George MacDougall

Ensemble

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Grace Schultz

Ensemble

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Grant Glennie

Ensemble

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J. G. Whitworth

Ensemble

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Jean Halley

Ensemble

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Joanna Christensen

Ensemble

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Joe Pelisek

Ensemble

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Juliette Sabourin

Ensemble

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Kay Smith

Ensemble

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Ken Prior

Ensemble

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Ken Ristow

Ensemble

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Louise Cameron

Ensemble

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Margaret Rowles

Ensemble

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Marguerite Allan

Ensemble

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Marilyn Moor

Ensemble

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Mary Allen

Ensemble

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Mary Barrette

Ensemble

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Maurice Leclerc

Ensemble

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Melva Anthony

Ensemble

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Mildred Ker

Ensemble

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Muriel Wetzstein

Ensemble

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Norma Besserer

Ensemble

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Pamela Brooks

Ensemble

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Peggie Highley

Ensemble

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Percy May

Ensemble

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Ruby Rutkowsky

Ensemble

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Ruth Piers

Ensemble

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Shirley Needham

Ensemble

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Ted Hothersall

Ensemble

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Theresa Doyle

Ensemble

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W. H. Whitworth

Ensemble

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William Murray

Ensemble

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Production

A. E. MacLaurin

Chorus Master

Christine Allan

Properties

Christine McCulloch Allan

Prompting

Dermot Sladen

Business Manager

Evelyn Fisher

Publicity

George Wetzstein

Programme

Gertrude Gerlach

Make-up

Jean Halley

Entertainment

Jim Fawcett,

Stage Manager

Ken Meyer

Workshop

Mallabar

Costumes by

Marguerite Allan

Librarian

Neil O'Donnell

Lighting by

Pearl Haydon

Costumes

Verne Ridgeway

Scenery design

Winifred Canty

Accompanist

Florodora
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