23 – 25 &  27 - 28 February, 1 - 4 March 2006

 9:30pm

The Studio, Holden Street Theatres

34 Holden Street, Hindmarsh


75 YEARS OF ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY FOOTLIGHTERS

The printed program contains two and a half pages of historical data at this point, all of which is reproduced in the HISTORY section of the website.

 

 

DIRECTOR

Phil Grummet

 

MUSIC DIRECTOR

Alex Waite Mitchell

 

MOVEMENT

Amanda Phillips

 

WRITERS

Brian Bergin, Wayne Anthoney, Gordon Bilney,

Meredith  Bowman, Tony Brooks, Phil Grummet, Michael Jacobs,

Sue Lawrence, Bob Lott, Tony Short, Rob Morrison, Anonymous

 

COMPOSERS

Geoff Ward, Alexander Waite Mitchell, Arthur Sullivan, Trad

 

STAGE

 DESIGN: Leonie Coleman. STAGE MANAGEMENT: Bill Kay, with

Michael Jacobs, George Lines, Mark Weston and

much help from all at Holden Street Theatres

 


 

CAST LIST

WAYNE ANTHONEY:  Scientist, clown, actor, teacher of acting, director, stand-up comedian, playwright.  From 1996 to 2004, Wayne was project manager for the Nyangatjatjara Aboriginal Corporation at Ayers Rock.  He was in the last of the Bergin and Ward revues, That Adamant Eve, which was the first Footlights Revue in the then newly built Union Hall.  He was in the next four revues, then directed The Purple Season in 1963, co-directed To Catch A Rocking Horse in 1964 and wrote It's A Riot in 1969. Then, for a final fling, he was asked to direct again in 1972, the era of Steve Spears and Lindy Powell.  Wayne admits he is "mad as a cut snake at times"!

MEREDITH BOWMAN: Teacher of dance theory at Adelaide Centre for the Arts.  Meredith has spent the last forty-two years as a teacher/lecturer in Education, PE and Dance.  She was a cast member of Uni Revues from 1961 to 1963, then Apex Revues and TV bits and pieces, such as Channel 7's Don't Say a Word and horror appearances in The Marriage Game and Beauty and the Beast.  She was involved in children's theatre with Bunyip Theatre, then with teaching dance drama at Morna Jones's Little Patch Theatre (now the Patch Theatre) in the early 70s. She lectured in PE and dance from 1974 at Adelaide CAE and then at Adelaide University until her retirement in 1999. 

ANTHONY BROOKS:  Tony had a flirtation with engineering and law, but a predilection for the extracurricular led to the joys of Uni revues. Beginning in 1959, was a cast member in Uni revues from 1961 to 1964 and Law Revues in 1965-6.  He joined the ABC in 1967, working in radio and TV current affairs, then became an event organiser, press secretary and public-relations consultant, his present role. Since last appearing in the revue A Festival Halls-Up during the 1968 Festival, the pleas of relatives, threats from employers and inducements from clients have prevented his return to the stage – until now.

PHIL GRUMMET: Phil is a pharmacist (semi-retired).  He has been involved in theatre for more than sixty years.  He is well known as a make-up specialist and has also directed, appeared on stage and done stand-up for floor shows, both at university and in the big wide world.  Phil was part of the revival of Footlights in 1953 and a member of the cast of several of the Bergin and Ward revues.

RICHIE GUN:  Richie is an occupational physician. He was MP for Kingston from 1969 to 1975.  Richie attended the University of Adelaide from 1954 to 1959 where he graduated in medicine. He has recently retired as lecturer in the Department of Public Health at Adelaide University.  Among other notable performances, he sang "The Jockey's Lament" in the original presentation of Be Your Age in 1955.

 MARGIE HILL (AKA: MARGARET STOKES):  Forty years on, Margie is still working full-time as a physiotherapist in private practice, has done some university lecturing and is still married to the same bloke (some people never learn!)  She was in the Footlights revues from 1962 to 1965 and played a stellar role as the dormouse in Alice in Wonderland

MICHAEL JOHNSTON: Michael is a retired pharmacist. He studied at Adelaide University, became an active member of the Footlights Club and performed in revues from 1958 to 1962, including That Adamant Eve and Strictly Between Us.  He was a member of the Flinders Street Theatre from 1962 to 1964.  In the 1970s he performed in Dimboola and Sweet Charity.  He retired only recently and is now enjoying growing his own olives. He is also rumoured to make wine.

SUE LAWRENCE: Physiotherapist. Sue's first Footlights Revue was in 1960. During her undergraduate years she acted in many Adelaide amateur theatre productions, including the Bunyip Children's Theatre.  Professionally, she was also a member of the first SA Theatre Company season and worked in J C Williamsons musicals, ABC Radio and stand-up comedy in early TV productions (Tonight, Don't Say A Word).  Having retired to her private physiotherapy practice and motherhood, Be Your Age sees her emerging from a 35-year theatrical break to again tread the boards, whilst she still can.    

ANDY LIGERTWOOD: Reader in Law at Adelaide University. Andy's stage career began in the early 1950s when he played Joseph in the Netherby Nursery School nativity play. He continued at secondary school with roles in (mainly, he feels in retrospect) Oscar Wilde plays.  From 1963 to 1966 he performed in various AUDS productions, law revues and Footlights revues.  The Purple Season was his first Footlights performance.  Andy made a brief comeback in the Law School's Centenary Revue in 1983 (a command performance by the then Dean), before the Centenary Professor, the Hon. Gough Whitlam, QC.

BOB LOTT: After 5 years as a biochemist at the Children's Hospital, Bob changed direction and made the entertainment industry his career. His association with revue started as a musician in the pit for one revue. He graduated (?) to the stage for three revues from 1962. He played in the pit for a couple of Law Revues, Directed three Children's Hospital revues and produced and directed the incredibly successful "sell-out" Festival Fringe revues Good Grief in 1968 and 1970 which were largely written by Judy, his late wife. Bob was on the boards of the Adelaide Festival for sixteen years and the Come Out Festival (co-formed by Judy) for eight years

JOHN McGOWAN:  John attended the University of Adelaide, majoring in History and Politics. He was involved in four Footlights revues.  He has spent forty years working in TV and video as a producer, writer, director and presenter. During sixteen years with the ABC as a producer, he frequently called on the talents of Footlights Club mates, including Wayne Anthoney, John Potter, Steve J. Spears and Rob George.  In 2005, John's biography of namesake, SA-born Hollywood pioneer actor/director J. P. McGowan, was published in the USA.

ROB MORRISON: Senior moments have robbed Rob of a clear recollection, but he thinks that there must have been seven Uni revues in which he took part.  He has been a science writer and broadcaster for thirty-five years, including eighteen as a presenter of The Curiosity Show.  He has written thirty-eight books on science, co-written twelve more, and currently produces segments for Australia's Asia Pacific Television program, Nexus.  As President of the Royal Zoological Society of SA and Patron of National Science Week SA, Rob chairs the Adelaide and Monarto Zoo Board and serves on other Boards in Science and Conservation.  He is an adjunct Associate Professor of Flinders University.

MICHAEL MUECKE: Michael began his singing/acting career whilst at St. Peter's College.  He sang in the Chapel Choir, in Vivaldi's oratorio Juditha Triumphans and in Handel's Messiah.  He performed in school theatrical productions and in three of the annual Gang Shows.  At university, Michael gained a Diploma in Physical Education and performed in Look Back in Anger and three Footlights revues including Six Bells for Venus.  Recently he performed in Matt Byrne's production of Into the Woods.

RICHARD PANK: Richard is working on a PhD on the State Bank Royal Commission.  He graduated with a BA (Hons), majoring in psychology (Hons) and politics. Richard built all of the instruments for the 1966 performance of the 1813 Overture.  He was President of the Footlights Club in 1967, performed in law revues and was the producer of a St Mark's revue.

KITTY PEAKE:  Kitty attended Adelaide University from 1964 to 1967, where she was an active member of the Drama Society (AUDS) as well as the Footlights Club.  She was in the cast of Scribble on the Wall (1965), Tata Goonight Goonight (1966) and the freshers' revue Absolutely Bugger All (1967).  She graduated with an Associate Diploma in Social Studies.  Kitty has performed with amateur theatres, was a regular member of the 5MMM (now 3D Radio) Four Course Breakfast Show and clowned around with Wayne Anthoney's Magick Circus.  In 1985 she enrolled in the Drama Course at Flinders University and graduated with a BA (Hons) in 1993.

JOHN POTTER:  (If you're reading this now you are either early for the show, bored, or checking the facts 
against your own.)  John was in revues from 1967 to 1971, and 1973.  He was president of AUDS in 1966-67, 
in a Festival production McBird in 1968, did lights for Good Grief in 1970 and in a 1974 late night revue. 
In 1976 he was stage manager for a Darwin performance of Yash Haka Shimo, was a film extra in Breaker Morant 
and Black and White, did commercials and voice-overs,  and read the ABC news in Far North Queensland in 
1980 and 1981. 

JEFF SCOTT:  Retired university lecturer, RAAF 1943-1945.  Jeff is the last surviving comedian from the 1948-1949 Footlights revues performed in the Tivoli Theatre.  Sadly, the demise of vaudeville forced him to take labouring jobs and go lecturing in law and politics.  At 80, he returned to the stage in the classic role of the ageing Alfred Lord Tennyson, based on his previous appearance as the Archangel Gabriel in the 1940 nativity play at St. George's, Goodwood.   In 1937, Jeff was Drum Major in the Goodwood School Band. In 1947, he sat next to Don Dunstan in Legal Ethics lectures.

 

NON CAST MEMBERS

AARON AUSTIN (drummer/percussionist): Aaron is studying hitting things at the Elder Conservatorium. At 22, he has mastered many musical styles, ranging from his debut in a brass band at the age of 10, through all manner of military, concert, stage and show bands to a five-year involvement with the Adelaide Youth  Orchestra. He is really very gentle, and kind to old ladies.

BRIAN BERGIN (writer): Brian Bergin (of whom the Australian Dictionary of Biography says: nothing) was the words half of the Bergin and Ward words-and-music partnership of the 1950s (of which the Groves Dictionary of Music says: nothing). After a working life as an advertising copywriter and creative director, head of publicity for the Adelaide Festival Centre and a freelance writer and director of documentary films (of which Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton say: nothing) he is now living in retirement, about which the less said, the better.

GORDON BILNEY (writer): Dentist, career diplomat, ambassador to the West Indies, MP, minister in the Hawke and Keating governments – but nothing was as much fun as those years in the 60s when Gordon was writing and performing in Footlights revues.  While he was the Secretary/Treasurer of the Footlights Club, when it had over 30,000 pounds in the bank - at a time when that would have bought two houses in Toorak Gardens – they did the sensible thing and spent it on Bergin's production of Hamlet, plus some excellent parties.

JOHN BISHOP (imperturbable finance director): Having cut his teeth on cooking and balancing the books for the Footlights Club in the 50s, Bish went on undetected to a career initially as a chartered accountant and later as a company director. Jean McLeay and Bish trod the boards in the original Be Your Age, Chickens and Six Bells and went on to produce 4 sons and 8 grandchildren rather than continue to perform in public.  Bish has helped organise all recent Footlights reunion activities. His absence from the cast of the current production is the result of a prior engagement with a gaggle of geriatric golfers in Tasmania. He has promised to return and try to keep the cast and committee out of debtors' prison.

IONE BROWN (front of house): Ione is a semi-retired policy analyst.  In the early 1960s, she studied Law and Arts and became involved in Footlights and Law revues in the role of "props girl".  She is overdue for promotion to the visible world.

MARGARET BUTCHER (front of house, program, chief cat-herder): Margi completed Refectory I, II and III while struggling with a Science degree before her life as a teacher for forty years.  She ventured into acting in secondary school where she performed in three Gilbert and Sullivan productions, always as the male lead.  In the early 1960s, after a Footlights audition singing "Three Blind Mice" in an up-beat style, she joined the cast for To Catch a Rocking Horse and The Purple Season.

LEONIE COLEMAN (nee Waye) (sets and costume): Leonie designed sets and costumes for freshers' revues and Footlights revues in 1968 and 1969.  From 1964 to 1969, she painted sets for Footlights, Adelaide University Theatre Guild, Adelaide University Dramatic Society and Adelaide University Choral Society.  As well, Leonie designed sets for AUTG and AUDS productions from 1968 to 1970.  She graduated as a Bachelor of Architecture in 1968.

MARK COLEMAN (set painter): Mark performed in various Adelaide University theatre productions from 1963 to 1968.  He was the producer for the 1969 Footlights revue.  Mark graduated in 1969 with an MB BS.

MALCOM ELLIOTT (front of house): Malcolm was introduced to Footlights audiences through multiple roles in the grand, expensive, and flu-plagued production of Hamlet in 1959. Later he was one of the original "Texarse Rangers" - a role held dear in his fading memory.  His artistic passion is now satisfied by stints presenting with, and for, the aged, infirm and bewildered on Radio Adelaide (the old 5UV).

 MICHAEL JACOBS (assistant stage manager, writer, stage invader):  Michael was in Footlights Revues, one way and another, on and off, between 1966 and the mid-1970s, including co-directing one revue and being production manager for the Footlights late-night revue Snookered! which opened the Little Theatre in the University Union building in 1974. After working for various bosses as a journalist, government adviser and lawyer, he is these days a freelance writer and journalist. Apart from the music and movement gurus, he is the youngest of the present group, but not the shortest

BILL KAY (stage manager): Bill reluctantly attended McLaren Vale primary school where he first experienced, at the hands of Jack Hume senior, the call of the stage.  Further theatrical experiences at St Peters College convinced him that on stage was no place for him.  In 1963 he started at Adelaide University studying science (Harry Medlin was his lecturer in Physics).  Because of his involvement in stage management, set construction, and all manner of backstage work for Footlights, AUDS, Theatre Guild (and most theatres in Adelaide), Bill decided to switch to architecture which had very few exams!  He became a registered architect in 1972 and is still working as a sole practitioner.

DAVID "GEORGE" LINES (props, stage crew): David recently retired from the Flinders Medical Centre where he was Professor and Clinical Director of Paediatrics.  He graduated in medicine at Adelaide University in 1960 and has more initials after his name than anyone.  David joined the Footlights Club in 1955 and was props manager and Secretary/Treasurer for some years.  He produced revues for St Marks in 1959, the Royal Adelaide Hospital in 1961 and the Adelaide Children's Hospital in the early 1960s.

AMANDA PHILLIPS (movement): Amanda is a performer, choreographer and arts crusader whose work has been performed internationally.  She holds a Masters in Dance from the Laban Centre, London and is a graduate of the Universities of Adelaide and of South Australia.  Her choreographic credits include: Temporary Occupants (Shanghai, 2005), Chinese Whispers (Australia and China 2005), Subliminal Translation (Taiwan 2004) and Manifest (Australian Dance Theatre Ignition Season 2004).  As well as work in theatre, film, musical theatre and radio both locally and overseas, she has played many character roles and is treading the boards in the David Williamson play A Conversation –for the Fringe.

HUGO SHAW (artwork): Hugo studied at the SA Art School in 1955-56.  He worked as an advertising artist from 1956 to 1962.  During this time, he worked backstage and marketing for a number of revues, including Six Bells for Venus, Count Your Chickens, That Adamant Eve and The Lunatic Fringe.  He studied fine art in London in 196-4, then taught at St Peters to 1987.  He is now bone painting!

TONY SHORT (writer): A.J.(Tony)Short, recently-retired lecturer in law, has single-handedly set out to reverse the trans-Tasman migration trend by emigrating to New Zealand.  A dog-loving bon vivant, Tony was production manager for a string of Footlights Club and Law-school revues during the sixties and seventies.  As the Parties Man, Tony also organised many of the Bacchanalian revels which were an essential element of all Footlights revues.

ROGER TAYLOR (front of house): Roger performed in Footlights revues from 1959 to 1963 as well in AUDS productions: Electra, Wizard of Oz and Toad of Toad Hall.  He was a performer in Theatre Guild productions: Good Woman of Szechwan, Love's Labours Lost, Recruiting Officer, Servant of Two Masters and Henry IV.  A teacher for forty years, Roger was appointed principal of St Peters Glenelg/Woodlands in 1984 where he remained until his retirement in December 2003.

ALEXANDER WAITE MITCHELL (Music director, composer): Alex is a young Adelaide composer currently studying for his Masters in Composition under the renowned Graeme Koehne.  He has been involved in many exciting projects ranging from dance to film scoring and live experimental performance.  Alex is also responsible for the musical track to Cirkidz' current Fringe show Up In Smoke.   His music is both dynamic and flexible, ranging from ambient to music hall within this current production alone.  When Alex is not composing or recording or thinking about music, he likes to kick back and relax by slowly restoring a last-century violin which he found destroyed in a second-hand shop.

GEOFF WARD (composer): Geoff graduated in medicine from Adelaide Uni in 1955.  His interest in theatre began in primary school.  He was a member of the Hairy Ballet in the 1948 Footlights revue.  In parallel with this, his interest in music developed and he was offered the piano seat with Bruce Gray's All Stars, with whom he worked until 1955.  When the Footlights Club was revived in 1953 he was on the committee and wrote some of the music for Sparkling Burgundy. His association with Footlights continued until 1959.

DARYL WARREN (publicity): Daryl failed miserably at University but got involved with Footlights revues on the coat-tails of his older brother Barry, who designed sets for several revues and produced To Catch a Rocking Horse.  Daryl went on to a career in journalism before spinning into public relations as a co-founder of Michels Warren. While Daryl never regretted not graduating, he does regret that his older brother isn't with us to witness the return to the stage, after all these years, of his old and decrepit mates trying to recapture their lost youth

JERRY WESLEY (doyen): Jerry gained a music degree at Adelaide University.  He was the musical director of a number of University revues including To Catch A Rocking Horse.  Jerry's career includes theatrical work with the State Theatre Company, playing either French Horn or violin in several Australian Symphony Orchestras, various excursions in jingle writing and jazz playing at numerous gigs, and musical leader of Jerry Wesley Smith and the Campus Six.

MARK WESTON (lights): Mark runs an engineering consultant company.  In about 1960, he was asked to "just help out with some lights" for a Geoff Ward production in the Union Hall.  GW gave him a couple of nights' instructions, then disappeared.  After this initiation by fire, Mark continued working on most productions at the Union, which included the Footlights productions.  In 1966, he moved to Sydney and established a career in corrosion engineering, which is the science of things falling apart and seems appropriate for this regrouping of oldies. Mark returned to his native Adelaide in the mid 1980s.

BE YOUR AGE

RUNNING ORDER

ITEM

PERFORMERS

WRITERS

Be Your Age

Cast

Bergin,  Ward 1954, Michael Jacobs 2006

Phone-call  1

Scotty

Gordon Bilney

Christmas shopping

Brooks, Potter

 

The permit

Hill, Johnston, Lawrence, Lott, Peake,  Potter

Tony Short

Windy problem 1

Hill, Peake, Muecke, Scotty

 

Magic

Potter

 

Piccolo player

Brooks

Brooks

The overcoat

Bowman, Grummet

 

The party's over

Lawrence, Muecke and cast

Sue Lawrence, Alex Waite Mitchell

Clouds

Brooks, Potter, Lott

Bob Lott

Madam Kathleen

Anthoney, Bowman, Hill, Ligertwood, Morrison

Wayne Anthoney, Meredith Bowman

Hail to the chief

Lott

George W Bush

Appearances

Hill, Lawrence

Lawrence

Three old blokes

Lott, Morrison, Scotty

 

Political wisdom

Brooks, Peake

Bilney

My company

Bowman, Morrison

Brooks, Jacobs

Polling booth

Ligertwood, Lott, with Hill, Lawrence, Johnston, Peake

Jacobs, Waite Mitchell

Phone-call  2

Scotty

Bilney

     

The Classics

Anthoney, Bowman, Johnston

Anthoney

By any other name

Hill, Muecke, Peake, Potter

 

1813

McGowan, Morrison, Waite  Mitchell and cast

Morrison

Parking Inspector

Anthoney

Anthoney

War memorial

Lawrence, Potter

Brooks, Jacobs

Intelligent design

Hill, Ligertwood, Jacobs

Jacobs, with www

Strictly Ballroom

Anthoney, Bowman, Brooks, Grummet, Hill, Johnston, Lawrence, Lott, Morrison, Muecke, Peake, Potter

Bowman, Lawrence

Phone-call 3

Scotty

Bilney

2025 News

Brooks

Brooks

Retirement Village

Bowman, Lawrence, Lott, Johnston, Peake, Potter

Anthoney

Phone-call 4

Grummet

Bilney

Windy problem  2

Muecke, Scotty

 

Jockeys' Lament

Anthoney,  Gun, Johnston

Bergin, Ward 1950s

Phone- call  5

Scotty

Bilney

Anzac Day

Anthoney, Morrison

 

Dubya  or quits

Anthoney, Bowman, Hill, Johnston, Muecke, Peake

www

Phone call 6

Scotty

Bilney

Model Politicians

Morrison, Muecke, Potter, chorus

 Bilney

Fading Away

Cast

Bergin, Ward 2003

 


DEGREES, ORDERS & MEDALS

Amongst the group we have collected the following

QUALIFICATIONS

9         AUA ( Pharm, Soc. Studies, Music, Arts and Education)

6              LLB

1             BCL

4              MB BS

3              BA (Hons)

3              B Ec

2              B Sc (Hons)

2              BA

2              B Arch.

1              PhD

1              PhD (near completion)

1              MA

1              B Sc

1              B Mus Studies (Hons)

1              D Divinity

1              B D Sc

1              Dip PE

1              Grad Cert App Science

1              Dip Applied Psych,

1              Post Grad Diploma in Rehab

1              Masters in Rehab

1              Grad Dip (Group Work)

1              Grad Dip Ed

2              Dip T (Primary)

1              Dip Ed

1              TAFE Cert. Charcuterie Cooking

PROFESSION FELLOWSHIPS AND MEMBERSHIPS

2              MAPA

2              FRACP

FCA

UCSP

FRACS

                FRANZCR

                AACCP

                FAFOM

                PLC       

                MD

                GCTE

                MPRIA

                FIPRA

                MACE

                FAICD

                FAIM

                KLJ

                GOMLJ

2             Professors

Orders Titles and Medals

                AO

                OAM

2              The Honorable    

                Centenary Medal

 


AILMENTS, OPERATIONS, INVESTIGATIONS

During the first rehearsals much time was spent in informing each other of the many ailments and operations cast and crew members had experienced - as one does at our age, so we thought we should share the joy of knowing these details:- Between us all we have or have had

23            BROKEN BONES                    including. RIBS, ARMS, KNEES, SHOULDERS,                                                                                 FINGERS LEGS, COLLAR & WRISTS

8              CANCERS                               including THYROID, SKIN, BREAST & BOWEL

8              APPENDICECTOMIES                                                                                         

8              TEETH PROBLEMS               including REMOVALS, IMPLANTS, ROOT CANALS         

7              BACK PROBLEMS                 including SPONDYLITIS, DISC  REMOVAL                        

6              HERNIAS                                                                                                               

5              CORONARY DISEASES         including BYPASSES                                               

4              PROSTATE PROBLEMS                                                                                                       

4              TONSILLECTOMIES                                                                                             

4              EYE PROBLEMS                    CATARACTS, REPLACEMENTS, LASER SURGERY

3              NOSE PROBLEMS                 requiring surgery                                                     

2              COLONOSCOPIES                                                                                               

2              ENDOSCOPIES                                                                                                     

2              VASECTOMIES                                                                                                     

2              KNEE PROBLEMS                 including REPLACEMENT, CARTILAGES REMOVED     

2              KIDNEY REMOVALS                                                                                           

2              BLOCKED ARTERIES                                                                                          

2              GALL BLADDER REMOVAL                                                                                             

1              MASTECTOMY                                                                                     

1              BRAIN TUMOUR EMOVAL                                                                                                

1              WRIST RECONSTRUCTION                                                                               

1              TESTICLES Varicose veins                                                                     

1              GALL STONES                                                                                                      

1              AORTIC VALVE REPLACEMENT                                                      

1              TENDON REPLACEMENT 

1             HYSTERECTOMY 

1              ROSS RIVER VIRUS      

 


                                                                                        

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND THANKS TO:

ALL THE OLD FOOTLIGHTERS who have formed a special bond over fifty years and who have contributed to rekindling the spark for one last, brief moment before it finally splutters

BOB AND MARTHA LOTT, of the Holden Street Theatres, for their incredible generosity and understanding during the preparation for, and staging of, this production, supplying FOC use of the premises for 2 months of rehearsals – our eternal thanks

BRIAN BERGIN for original words for Be Your Age, Jockeys Lament and Fading Away

CHRIS ILEY AND URBAN MYTH for helping us source and hang the drapes

MUSICORP AUSTRALIA PTY LTD 118 Richmond Road Marleston, for donating a set of bass strings for the bass in the1813 Overture

GEOFFREY WARD for original music for Be Your Age, Jockeys Lament and Fading Away

JASON GROVES, NICK ELY AND PETER CHALMERS for rigging and preparing the stage and lights

JERRY WESLEY for his encouragement and support and the wonderful times he gave us Footlighters teaching us all we need to know about Revues

KARIN PETRIS and PHIL, for their help and advice on setting the sound

KRISTEN DODD for preparing the Program and producing, preparing and placing all the advertising

MARK KAVANAGH RACING STABLES and GREEN MACHINE RACING SYNDICATE for providing some authentic kit for Jockeys' Lament

MIA MASON, HEW PARHAM, ALAN WEBB and "PUMPY" for doing all those bits and pieces pertaining to Be Your Age at Holden Street Theatres

OUR PARTNERS, who have been prepared to take a punt on normal life resuming on or about 5 March

PATTI BENNETT and all at VENUE*TIX

RICHARD PANK AND ROB MORRISON for creating the instruments used in the 1813 Overture

RICHIE GUN for playing in the orchestra

SUE LAWRENCE for her organisational skills, enthusiasm and determination to make this production successful

SUE LAWRENCE, JOHN BISHOP, BOB LOTT & HOLDEN STREET THEATRES for underwriting the financial outcome of the show

THE CAST & CREW for their enthusiasm, tolerance and many hours of both physical and intellectual hard work

TONY BROOKS for writing and collating the history of the Footlights Club

VENUE*TIX for absorbing the lion's share of the advertising costs