Music and Lyrics by Cole Porter
SYNOPSIS
Sailing from New York to England aboard SS American, are the beautiful American heiress Hope Harcourt, her English fiancé Sir Evelyn Oakleigh and Hope’s mother. A young admirer of Hope, Billy Crocker is stowing away on board. Billy can’t believe she would really marry Sir Evelyn and is determined to try and stop her.
Also on board are Public Enemy Number Thirteen, with his moll Bonnie, and he passes on to Billy the passport and ticket of a gangster friend of his who didn’t catch the boat. This leads, to numerous unwelcome complications for Billy as he and the Public Enemy have to keep changing disguises to avoid arrest.
Ex-evangelist and currently right club singer, Reno Sweeny, is also on board and with her help all the shipboard disasters are averted and all the romances sorted out including her own.
Director: Janet Huckle
Assistant Director: Victoria Waddington
Music Director: Holly Stout
Choreographer: Keren Pullinger
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CAST
| Reno Sweeney | Elizabeth Hudson |
| Billy Crocker | Adam Phillips |
| Hope Harcourt | Lucy Wotton |
| Lord Evelyn Oakleigh | Stephen Roe |
| Moonface Martin | Tim Kimber |
| Erma | Sarah Catling |
| Evangeline Harcourt | Eve Manghani |
| Eli Whitney | Al Clogston |
| Captain | Paul Sadler |
| Purser | Andrew Thompson |
| Luke | John Huckle |
| John | Robin Clifford |
| The Rev. Henrietta T Dobson | Dianne Norton |
| Fred, the bartender | Spencer Mitchell |
| Photographer | Greg Shaw |
| Reporters | Kim Findlay & Hazel Channon |
| DANCING ANGELS | |
| Becky Channon | Rebecca George |
| Lucinda Hennessy | Alison King |
| Gemma Melhuish | Keren Pullinger |
| SINGING ANGELS | |
| Victoria Garton | |
| Alice Hudson Sheaf | Linda Pullinger |
| Claire Russell | Ceri smith |
| SAILORS | |
| Neil Catton | Jonathan de Florio |
| Seumas Grey | Gavin Murphy |
| Andrew Thompson | Tony Trott |
| PASSENGERS | |
| Hazel Channon | Georgina Christmas |
| David Croft | Margaret Etches |
| Kim Findlay | Bel Gibbs |
| Geoff Geensmith | Katherine Grimes |
| Marion Hayter | Gaby Lambert |
| Gaby Lambert | Spencer Mitchell |
| Dominique Norbrook | Hamish Norbrook |
| Dianne Norton | Amie Shallcross |
| Greg Shaw | Penny Stone |
| Gemma Thatcher |