Download: Programme
(258 KBytes)
The Man Who Came to Dinner
• directed by Joyce Adcock
January 1954
The Civic Theatre
Leeds Arts Centre performed The Man Who Came to Dinner in January 1954.
Cast
| Mrs Ernest W. Stanley | Sheila Gray |
| Miss Preen | Joan Palmer |
| Richard Stanley | Stanley Walinets |
| June Stanley | Valerie Smith |
| John | John Morley |
| Sarah | Jean Miller |
| Mrs Dexter | Margaret Shackleton |
| Mrs McCutcheon | Jean Bell |
| Mr Stanley | Herbert Stead |
| Maggie Cutler | Betty Pearson |
| Dr Bradley | Bill Rogerson |
| Sheridan Whiteside | Jack Lewis |
| Harriet Stanley | Daphne Padfield |
| Bert Jefferson | Anthony Pedlar |
| Professor Metz | Brian Gibbon |
| The Luncheon Guests | Ernest Greaves |
| Harry Kemp | |
| Ivor K. Dykes | |
| Mr Baker | Donald Harrison |
| Expressmen | Roy Johnson |
| Malcolm Cryle | |
| Lorraine Sheldon | Mary Smith |
| Sandy | Michael Warner |
| Beverley Carlton | Philip Stone |
| Westcott | Roy Johnson |
| Radio Technician | Ivor K. Dykes |
| Six Young Boys | John Beer |
| Malcolm Beer | |
| Donald Gordon | |
| John Pearson | |
| Nigel Pearson | |
| Graham Platt | |
| Banjo | Gordon Caleb |
| Two Deputies | Cedric Vendyback |
| Ronald Wilkinson | |
| A Plain-Clothes Man | Donald Harrison |
| Beverley Carlton’s Song Written and Composed by | Philip Stone |
Backstage team
| Director | Joyce Adcock |
| Assistant Producer | Margaret Shackleton |
| Stage Management | Ann Ogilvy |
| Properties | Margaret Shackleton |
| Jane Platt | |
| Mary Dalton | |
| Wardrobe | Cora Greaves |
| Marjorie O. Walker | |
| Prompter | Dorothy Paul |
| Auditorium Management | Margaret Murphy |
| Cedric Vendyback | |
| Box Office Management | John Spencer |
| Harry Kemp | |
| Publicity Manager | Jean Miller |
| Set Built by | Douglas Butterfield |
| Painted by | Elaine Cooper |
| Betty Beall | |
| Rose Taylor | |
| Programme Cover Designed by | J. C. Newby |
Archive documents
The following documents from the production are in the LAC archive.
Add to the archive
We’re always looking to add to our archive of past productions – if you have any other memories of The Man Who Came to Dinner, we would be very pleased to hear from you.
