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CARL TOMS OBE FRSA 1927 - 1999 Lorraine’ Parish Church Hall. Nottingham Journal review 16th Dec + CREDITS: All work what & where indicated. 1950 August/ Sept - Exhibited 48 designs for + C&C – Cast & Crew details on web site of stage settings and costumes at Mansfield Art Theatricaila where there are currently 104 Gallery. Nottm Eve Post 12/08/50 and also in Nottm references to be found. Journal 12/08/50 https://theatricalia.com/person/43x/carl- toms/past 1952

+ Red related notes. 52 - 59 Engaged as assistant to + Film credits; http://www.filmreference.com/film/2/Carl- 1953 Toms.html#ixzz4wppJE9U2 Designer for the penthouse suite at Hotel. + Television credits and other work where indicated. 1957:

+ Denotes local references, other work and May - Apollo de Bellac - awards. , London,

------57/58 - Beth - The Apollo,Shaftesbuy Ave London C&C 1927: May 29th Born - Kirkby in Ashfield 22 Kingsway. 1958

Local Schools / Colleges: March 3 rd for one week ‘A Breath of Spring. Diamond Avenue Boys School Kirkby. Theatre Royal Nottingham. Designed by High Oakham. Mansfield. Oliver Messel. Assisted by Carl Toms. Mansfield Collage of Art. (14 years old). Programme. Review - March 6th

Lived in the 1940’s with his Uncle and Aunt 58/59 - No Bed for Bacon Old Vic. who ran a grocery business on Station St C&C Kirkby. *In 1950 his home was reported as being 66 Nottingham Rd Mansfield 1959 *(Nottm Journal Aug 1950) June - The Complaisant Lover Globe Conscripted into Service joining the Royal Theatre, London. C&C Army Ordnance Corps. The Seashell, Edinburgh, C&C in files. Royal College of Art. London. 59/60 -The Merry Wives of Windsor, Old Vic, Old Vic Theatre School London London. C&C. (Pics of Costumes) 1945 - Paintings of stage designs exhibited at 59/60 – Cinderella, C&C. Nottingham the County School of Art Mansfield. (Production of the musical play by Jacopo Ferretti a st Journal 21 Feb Sadler’s Wells Production)

1949 Dec – Set designer for the Penson 1960 Players Production of ‘She Passed Through 2

The Barber of Seville ? 1964

New Cranks London, ? The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night's Dream, both British Council of the September – Decorated Arts, British cities. for the Royal Gala. 1964/65 - The Barber of Seville. Designed World Premiere of Benjamin Bristol Hippodrome. C&C. Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. Aldeburgh Festival. 1965

6, 7 & 9 July - RADAMISTO - George Frideric April - A Public Mischief by Martin Landau for Handel (Sadler's Wells) Handel Opera Marlan Productions. Theatre Royal, Newcastle upon Tyne. C&C. Society, (Information from a Prog Adv for sale) June - Opening of refurbished Theatre Royal 60/61 - A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Windsor. Old Vic, London. C&C. FILM: She, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1961 1966 Alas Poor Fred Theatre Royal Nottm. Press release The Stage 12/10/61 The Trojan Women, Pop Theatre, London,

Iphigenie en Tauride (opera), Royal Opera The Winter's Tale, Pop Theatre, House, Covent Garden, Ldn, 1967 61/62 - The Lady of the Camellias Old Vic, Australian/Latin American Tour. C&C. The Burglar and Fallen Angels, London.

61/62 Refurbished 1 . The Tricks of Scapin, Pop Theatre, Residence of Princes Margaret and Anthony Edinburgh Festival. Armstrong Jones. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Pop Theatre, 1962 Edinburgh Festival

Write Me a Murder and A Time to Laugh, The Soldier's Tale, Pop Theatre, Edinburgh London, Festival? Press cutting.

1963 Die Frau ohne Schatten, Royal Opera House,

Our Man in Havana,? Film: One Million Years, B.C., Twentieth Century-Fox. April: Who’ll Save the Plowboy? Haymarket Theatre, London. C&C. Review & cast in Film: Prehistoric Women (also known as Theatre World - May Slave Girls), Twentieth Century-Fox.

Ballet Imperial, Royal Opera House, Film: Those Fantastic Flying Fools (also known as Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon The Importance of Being Earnest, and Blast Off), American International, Nottingham Playhouse. Programme 1968 December Swan Lake, Royal Opera House, April - Edward II, (NT) Old Vic, London. C&C 3

Dec - Love's Labour's Lost, Old Vic. London. Nov - The Taming of the Shrew (NT) Young C&C Vic. C&C.

1968 - Film: The Lost Continent, Twentieth Dec - Wakefield Nativity Plays (NT) Young Century Vic.. C&C.

Film: The Vengeance of She (also known as Dec - Interview featured in ‘Plays & Players’ Dec The Return of She), Twentieth Century-Fox. 1970

Film: Production designer for The Winter's Film: Moon Zero Two, Warner Bros., Tale. 1971 1969 April - Measure for Measure (NT) . Awarded an OBE in recognition of his C&C. accomplishments. Oct - Much Ado About Nothing (NT) Young Chosen as design consultant for the Vic. C&C. ceremony for investiture of Prince of Wales at The Rivals, Chichester Festival Theatre, Carnarvon Castle. Caesar and Cleopatra, Chichester Festival Wedgwood -Tankard for investiture of Prince Theatre, Charles Prince of Wales. Reunion in Vienna, Chichester Festival The Magistrate, Chichester Festival Theatre, Theatre, C&C in file Dec - Falstaff. Bristol Hippodrome Antony and Cleopatra, Chichester Festival C&C. Theatre, C&C in file. 71/72 - The Beheading. Apollo London. C&C. 1970 Film: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Became resident designer with the Young Vic Warner Bros. [1970-1983] 1972 May - Vivat! Vivat Regina! Chichester Festival Theatre, & The Piccadilly London – February She Stoops to Conquer. National October.C&C and also in file. Theatre at the Young Vic. C&C

The Alchemist, Chichester Festival Theatre, Won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle C&C in file. Award – Distinguished Set Design for ‘Sluth’.

Oct - Cyrano de Bergerac, Cambridge 1973 Theatre & Old Vic C&C Featured in ‘Plays & Players’ Dec 1970. July. French Without Tears, National Theatre at the Young Vic C&C Sleuth, Music Box Theatre, New York City, Fanfare for Europe, Royal Opera House, Sept - The Cheats of Scapin. (NT) Young Vic. London. C&C Peter Grimes, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco, CA, Sept - The Soldier’s Tale. (NT) Young Vic London. C&C. 4

Oct. Section Nine. R Shakespeare Co. La Traviata, San Diego Opera Company, Palace Theatre Ldn. 11th Oct – 6th Dec & 23rd Jan 1974 C&C Thais, San Francisco Opera,

1974 1977 May - . Royal The Waltz of the Torreadors, London,? Shakespeare Company Tour and August Sherlock Holmes, Broadhurst Theatre, New Ldn. C&C York City, & 1st Jan Aldwych Ldn. C&C Long Day's Journey into Night, Los Angeles, RSC Aldwych Ldn.C&C The Merry Widow, San Diego Opera Aug Sherlock Holmes Bristol Hipp Aug 27th – Company, 31st C&C The Marriage of Figaro, New York City Oct Sherlock Holmes RSC Tour C&C Opera,

Won a Drama Desk Award for theatre design The Voice of Ariadne, New York City Opera, for ‘Sherlock Holmes’. Man and Superman, Malvern Theatre 74/75 - Sherlock Holmes Aldwych Ldn. C&C Festival,

74/75 - Sherlock Holmes Bristol Hipp.C&C The Queen's Silver Jubilee Gala, Royal Opera House, 1975 Travesties, Vienna Burgtheater, Vienna, 1975 Murderer. London ? Austria, May, Travesties Royal Shakespeare 1978 Company. Aldwych Theatre. August - Noel Coward Theatre and Tour Oct 75 – March 76 She Stoops to Conquer, Vienna Burgtheater, C&C Betrayal, Vienna Burgtheater, Winner of a Tony Award in America. Press report Notts Free Press June 20th. Look after Lulu, Chichester Festival Theatre,

Die Meistersinger von Nuernburg, New York The Devil's Disciple, Los Angeles, City Opera, New York City, Thais, Metropolitan Opera, New York City,

Travesties and Habeas Corpus, New York , San Diego Opera Company, City Nov - Night and Day, Phoenix Theatre, Writing’s: Author of Winter's Tale and London, C&C and 1980 Vienna Burgtheater, Scapino, books of stage designs, both published in 1975. 1979

75/76 – Sleuth Theatre Royal Bath C&C Night and Day, New York City,

1976 May - For Services Rendered, Lyttleton Theatre National Theatre, C&C Norma, San Diego Opera Company, San Diego, CA, The Guardsman, Vienna Burgtheater, 5

79/80 Nov - Stage Struck, , Vienna State Opera, Vienna, & , London, C&C , San Diego Opera 1980 Company,

April – Double Bill – Harlequinade & The 1982/83 - , Strand Theatre, Browning Version. National Theatre Co. London, C&C Empire Sunderland and Lyttelton Theatre 1982/83 – The Rehearsal. Theatre Royal National C&C Between Sunderland and the National, the show also performed in Norwich. After finishing at the Bath. C&C National, it transferred to The International Arts Festival in 1982/83 – Star Quality Theatre Royal Bath Baltimore, USA in 1981 C&C Playbill, National Theatre, 1983 Oct - The Provok'd Wife, Lyttelton Theatre, The Winslow Boy, Lyric Theatre, London, National. & 1981 Bristol Hippodrome. C&C Jeeves Takes Charge, City Center Theatre, 1981 then Roundabout Theatre, both New York With Wedgwood he designed a Tankard in City, collaboration with Lord Snowdon for the The Hothouse, Vienna Burgtheatre, wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana th Spencer July 29 . A Patriot for Me, Chichester Festival Theatre & Haymarket Theatre, London, then Center April 5th - Noel and Gertie - one night only. Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre, Los MayFair Theatre Ldn. Flyer Angeles, 1985. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray, Lyttelton 1983/84 - Hay Fever, Queen's Theatre, Theatr. National. C&C London, C&C Der Freischutz, New York City Opera, 1984 1981/82 - On the Razzle, Lyttelton Theatre, March – The Aspern Papers Theatre Royal National. & Bristol Hippodrome C&C Haymarket C&C & Oberon, Frankfurt, 1981/82 – Windy City. Bristol Hippodrome & Germany July, Victoria Palace Ldn. C&C July - The Happiest Days of Your Life, Royal 1982 Shakespeare Company (RSC) Barbican Theatre, Nov- Opening of refurbished auditorium Theatre Royal Bath. Costume designer for The Italian Girl in Algiers, Geneva, Switzerland, Awarded the Laurence Oliver Theatre Award for Best Designer (1981 Season) for ‘The Oct - , Lyttelton Theatre, Provoked Wife’ National C&C

May – World Premiere of new production - 1984/85 – . Aldwych Theatre Ldn. Swan Lake, London Festival Ballet, Bristol C&C Hippodrome C&C 1985 6

Faust, Vienna State Opera, 1987/88 - Hapgood, Aldwych Theatre. C&C

Lucia di Lammermoor, Cologne Opera, 1987/88 - The Browning Version, Royalty Cologne, Germany, Theatre London, C&C

1985 /86 - The Dragon's Tale, Apollo 1987/88 - The Importance of Being Earnest, Theatre, London, C&C Royalty Theatre, London, then Royal Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1987. C&C 1986 1987/88 – Semi-Monde Co. Feb-Brighton Beach Memoirs, Lyttelton Royalty Theatre Ldn C&C Theatre. National Theatre C&C, 1987/88 – The Living Room. The Royalty May - Dalliance, Lyttelton Theatre National Theatre. C&C Theatre, C&C 1988 September - The Magistrate, Lyttelton Theatre. National Theatre, C&C 1988/89 - Artist Descending a Staircase, Duke of York's Theatre, London, C&C Jeeves Takes Charge, Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC, 1988/89 – The Man Who Came to Dinner Barbican Theatre. C&C Blithe Spirit, Vaudeville Theatre, Nov / 89 - Richard II, Kennedy Center Fanfare for Elizabeth, Royal Opera House, Washington DC USA & Theatre Royal Bath Oberon, Edinburgh Festival, Phoenix Theatre, C&C

1986/87 - Wildfire, Theatre Royal Bath C&C Rigoletto, New York City Opera,

TV: Production designer, "On the Razzle," 1989 Great Performances, PBS. Hapgood. Los Angeles.

1987 May - Richard III, Kennedy Center Became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts Washington DC USA & Phoenix Theatre Ldn. – FRSA - an award granted to individuals that C&C the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) judges to July - The Man Who Came to Dinner, RSC, have made outstanding achievements related Barbican C&C to the Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce. Fellowship is widely regarded as an honour 1989 /90 - , Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London, C&C February - Six Characters in Search of an Author, Olivier Theatre / National, C&C Noel and Gertie, Comedy Theatre, London, then Duke of York's Theatre, 1991-92. Page June - Fathers and Sons, Lyttelton Theatre / from Programme National, C&C 1990 Sept - The Ting Tang Mine, Cottesloe Theatre /National C&C Restored the Richmond Theatre, Surrey.

Opening of refurbished Look Look!, Aldwych Theatre, London. 7

1990 - The Silver King, Chichester Festival 1996 Theatre,

1990 /91 Sept - , Theatre Royal Bath Aldwych Theatre, C&C 1997 Wedgwood tankard - the Golden Wedding of 1991 the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh. Limited Painting Churches, , edition 5,000. London, 1997/98 – A Delicate Balance Theatre Royal August - Preserving Mr. Panmure, Chichester Haymarket C&C Festival Theatre, C&C

November - The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll th and Mr. Hyde, RSC, Barbican Theatre, C&C DIED AGED 72 on 4 August 1999 in Hertfordshire. Making It Better, Josephstadt Theatre,

Vienna, DATES UNKNOWN: 1991 /92- It's Ralph, Comedy Theatre, C&C Death Watch, Young Vic London. Des C&C 1992 The Maids, Young Vic, London. (NT) March - Straight and Narrow, Wyndham's Des. C&C Theatre, London, C&C

1992-3 - An Ideal Husband, Globe Theatre, FILM WORK; COSTUME DESIGNER, EXCEPT London, C&C WHERE INDICATED 1992/93 - Separate Tables, Noel Coward (listed in the appropriate years above) Theatre. London. & Theatre Royal Bath C&C She, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1965.

One Million Years, B.C., Twentieth Century-Fox, 1993 1967.

Set designer for Arcadia, Zurich, Switzerland, Prehistoric Women (also known as Slave Girls), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1967. 1993 /94 - She Stoops to Conquer, Queen's Theatre & Theatre Royal Bath C&C Those Fantastic Flying Fools (also known as Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon and Blast Off), 1994 American International, 1967.

The Lost Continent, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968. 1994 Oct / 95 – Three Tall Women Wyndham’s. & 1995/96 Theatre Royal Bath. The Vengeance of She (also known as The C&C Return of She), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1968.

Moon Zero Two, Warner Bros., 1970. 1995 When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Warner Bros., 1995/96 - An Ideal Husband Old Vic & 1971. 1997/98 Noel Coward Theatre. C&C Production designer for The Winter's Tale, 1968.

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Credits; TELEVISION WORK; EPISODIC

Production designer, "On the Razzle," Great Performances, PBS, 1986.

Credits; OTHER TELEVISION WORK

Designer of Boule de Suif, The Sandcastle, and Twelfth Night.

WRITINGS

Author of Winter's Tale and Scapino, books of stage designs, both published in 1975