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CROSS-GARTER'D
L-R - Elisabeth Schooling, Maude Lloyd, Betty Cuff, Rollo Gamble, Prudence Hyman, Walter Gore,
Antony Tudor, William Chappell From a photo by Pollard Crowther
Ballet Rambert Archives 1931 (p.28) Courtesy Judith Chasin-Bennahum
Synopsis:
The scenario of Cross-Garter'd, drawn from Act II, scene v, and Act Ill, scene iv, of Twelfth
Night concerns Malvolio, the pompous, conceited steward to the Countess Olivia. His wildest desire would be to
marry Olivia. Maria, Olivia's shrewd serving woman, has designs on Sir Toby Belch, Olivia's fat, jolly, hard-drinking
cousin. Toby's companion, Sir Andrew Aguecheek, is a wealthy, skinny, rather feebleminded knight who has come to
woo Olivia. And Fabian symbolizes the typical sly, merrymaking Elizabethan servant, the sort of character whom
higher-born aristocrats like Toby and Andrew enjoy spending time with.
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| Choreography |
| Antony Tudor |
| Music / Composer |
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Selected organ works |
| Libretto |
| After William Shakespeare |
| First Performance |
London Mercury Theatre
November 12, 1931
Ballet Club |
| Original Cast |
| Olivia; Maude Lloyd; Maria: Prudence Hyman; Malvolio: Antony Tudor; Sir Toby: Walter Gore; Sir
Andrew: Rollo Gamble |
| Notated |
1976 by Murial Topaz
(Labanotation) |
| Average Length |
| NA |
| Number of Dancers |
| NA |
| Costumes |
| After Burnacini |
| Scenery |
| Pamela Bouquet |
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