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February 2012 A MAGAZINE ABOUT THE LIFE AND WORK OF SIR NOËL COWARD • FEBRUARY 2012 THE GRAND TOUR A day in Birmingham - 30 June, 2012 to see Joe Layton’s ballet on Noël Coward’s music ‘The Grand Tour’ AND visit the Coward Special Collection at Birmingham University. HAY FEVER A confirmed date is now Thursday 16th February, 2012 for an evening performance at The Noël Coward Theatre. Our special discount offers 35 seats reduced to £32.50 each. Noël Coward in the garden at Goldenhurst PRODUCED AND PUBLISHED BY THE INTERNATIONAL NOËL COWARD SOCIETY - 1- www.noëlcoward.net EDITORIAL hat a day to remember! In the UK celebrating the Master’s birthday on the actual day still allowed some 75 members and guests to join in the celebrations and importantly allowed us to use the wonderful facilities of The Grand Saloon at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. Our thanks to our special guests, Robert and Pirjo Gardiner and Alan Farley, to everyone who came, personal thanks to Denys Robinson and Stephen Greenman who ensured the smoothest of sailings through the day. The theatre provided a first rate service for drinks and lunch with the numerous ‘Red Butlers’ and bar staff proving to be both efficient and involved in the occasion, ensuring we enjoyed their company as well as the quality of their service. A special thank you to Richard Briers and his wife Anne who were our honoured guests for the flower-laying. His rendition of the Coward verse, ‘When I have Fears’ will be appearing on the website soon. In New York on Sunday 18th December members witnessed the talented actor and singer Christine Ebersole lay flowers on Noël’s statue at the Gershwin Theater and join cabaret artist Richard Holbrook, both accompanied by Christopher Denny on the piano, at the Manhattan Club in Rosie O’Grady’s, New York. The New Year in London begins with Hay Fever , the first Coward play to be featured at Cameron Mackintoshes’ Noël Coward theatre since its naming in June 2006. Noël appeared in his own play, I'll Leave It To You , at the then New Theatre in 1920, the first West End production of one of his plays. John Knowles CONTENTS ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Editorial 2 Noël’s Steinway Grand Comes to Town 11 The Grand Tour - NCS Events 30 June 3 17, Gerald Road 12 A long voyage home 4 Coward on the Coast 16 Café de Pairs and Hay Fever NCS Events 6 Family Album - Bermuda 21 Coward Birthday NCS Events - London 7 Happy Memories of Noël 24 Coward Birthday NCS Events - New York 8 The E & O Hotel 25 Hancock’s Peace in Our Time 9 Noël Coward Birthday Celebrations - Gallery 26 Making the Master 10 Noël Coward in New York 28 Home Chat is a magazine produced by The Noël Coward Society , funded through the generosity of The Noël Coward Foundation. Noël Coward Ltd. Chairman: Robert Gardiner Directors: Denys Robinson, Stephen Greenman and John Knowles, Company Secretary: Graham Martin. The Noël Coward Society: President: HRH The Duke of Kent Vice Presidents: Maria Aitken, Barry Day OBE, Stephen Fry, Tammy Grimes, Penelope Keith CBE Organising Committee: Chairman and General Manager: John H. Knowles, Finance and Resources: Stephen Greenman, Events Organiser: Denys Robinson, Membership : Stephen Duckham, Media: Michael Wheatley-Ward, North American Director : Ken Starrett, US West Coast Liaison : Kathy Williams, NCS in Australia : Kerry Hailstone, NCS in France : Hélène Catsiapis Home Chat: Editor: John H. Knowles, US NCS news: Ken Starrett, Publication and Distribution: Stephen Greenman Assistant Editors and Proofing: Kathy Williams and Ken Starrett, Music correspondent: Dominic Vlasto. Details of productions and events are as received, with our thanks, from: Samuel French (Play Publishers and Author’s Representatives), Ken Starrett (US), Alan Brodie Representation (Professional Productions), NCS members and theatre companies. NCS website: www.noëlcoward.net Unless otherwise stated all images and text are copyright to NC Aventales AG Key Addresses: Committee Chairman & General Manager: John Knowles, 29 Waldemar Avenue, Hellesdon, Norwich, NR6 6TB, UK [email protected] +44 (0) 1603 486 188 Finance & Resources: Stephen Greenman, 64 Morant Street, London, E14 8EL [email protected] Events Organiser: Denys Robinson, 4 Parkside, Vanbrugh Fields, London, SE30 7QQ + 44 (0) 2082 658 879 email: [email protected] Membership Secretary: Stephen Duckham, 47 Compass Court, Norfolk Street, Coventry,West Midlands, CV1 3LJ [email protected] +44 (0) 2476 229 502 Press and Media Manager: Michael Wheatley-Ward, Chandos House, 14 Vale Square, Ramsgate, Kent CT11 9DF [email protected] North American Director : Ken Starrett, 49 West 68th Street, Apt 1 R New York, New York, 10023, USA [email protected] US West Coast Liaison : Kathy Williams, 141 Stonegate Road, Portola Valley, California 94028-7648 USA kathywilliams@noëlcoward.net NCS in Australia : Kerry Hailstone, 10A Westall Street, Hyde Park, South Australia, 5061 Australia [email protected] NCS in France : Hélène Catsiapis, 115, Boulevard de Port-Royal F-75014 Paris, France [email protected] - 2- Birmingham Hippodrome Saturday June 30 Probably one of the most exciting events for Coward enthusiasts in the UK this year - The Grand Tour at Birmingham Hippodrome. Join us for this extraordinary occasion - details on the enclosed booking form. On the following page is an article from ‘Entrechat’ - the Hippodrome’s house magazine. Assistant Director Marion Tait provides some detailed background on the history of the show. The Grand Tour was created by the American choreographer Joe Layton for the Royal Ballet’s touring company and was premiered by them at the Theatre Royal, Norwich on February 10th, 1971. Based on a number of famous Coward songs the score is by veteran Broadway arranger Hershy Kay, who a year earlier had produced WHO CARES? for George Balachine from the Gershwin songbook. The decor and costumes were the work of John Conklin. The show features ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen’, ‘I’ll Follow My Secret Heart’, ‘Has Anybody Seen Our Ship’, I’ll See You Again’, ‘The Stately Homes of England’, ‘Mrs. Worthington’, ‘Half-Caste Woman’, and ‘If Love Were All’. A long voyage home Assistant Director Marion Tait waxes lyrical about the welcome return of Joe Layton’s The Grand Tour. Broadway producer Joe Layton had been looking for a Marion Tait as Mary Pickford; PHOTO: Leslie E. Spatt company with the right faces for a new 1920s character ballet. In February 1971, he found the people he needed in the Royal Ballet New Group. 40 years on, it is an experience that Assistant Director Marion Tait remembers very fondly. I think Grand Tour was the first time we had a Broadway producer come and work with the Company, and for me, it was the highlight of my career so far – I’d always wanted to work on Broadway, amidst all the glitz. Joe was very, very strict though, almost ruthless, but they are, Broadway producers. He was also very slick in his rehearsals and went into a lot of detail. He wasn’t only having to make the steps up (I can remember that he used to choreograph as he went along, though I’m sure he did a lot of work at home too), but he was also having to teach his dancers to be the characters. At that time, some of them were still alive – Joe had met them and had worked with Noël Coward a lot. So, the story... There’s an American tourist (originally danced by Vyvyan Lorrayne) and a bunch of celebs – Noël Coward [1899-1973; famed playwright, composer, director, actor and singer] danced by Gary Sherwood with Desmond Kelly his second cast, Gertrude Lawrence [1898-1952; West End actress and musical comedy performer] danced by Deidre O’Conaire, and George Bernard Shaw [1856-1950; Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics] danced by David Drew. David Bintley also covered this role – I’m positive I saw him dance it, but he says United Artists] danced by Doreen Wells, and Douglas he never got the chance. There was also Theda Bara [1885- Fairbanks [1883-1939; American actor, screenwriter, director 1955; American silent film actress and one of the first sex and producer] danced by Paul Clarke – a real Douglas symbols] danced by Sheila Humphreys, Mary Pickford [1892- Fairbanks character with big white teeth! Alain Dubreuil was 1979; Canadian- born actress and co-founder of the film studio second cast for him. The celebs. pose for a photo. Left to right: Derek Purnell as the Chief Steward, Michael Corder as Noël Coward, Judith Rowann as Gertrude Lawrence, June Highwood as Alice B. Toklas, Susan Crow as the American Tourist, David Morse as Gertrude Stein, Marion Tait as Mary Pickford, Carl Myers as Douglas Fairbanks, Chenca Williams as Theda Bara and Stephen Wicks as George Bernard Shaw. PHOTO: Leslie E. Spatt - 4- Gertrude Stein [1874-1946; American writer, poet and art player went wrong. It suddenly went really, really fast, making collector] and Alice B. Toklas [1877-1967; Stein’s confidante, that awful squeaky noise (like the comedy voices on TV, lover, cook, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general babbling at the other end of a telephone). Michael Corder, who organiser] are there as a couple too. Nicholas Johnson was was playing Noël that night, followed it exactly, then it Gertrude (in drag; it had to be a man for all the partnering) and suddenly went r-e- a-l-l-y s-l-o-w, and he followed that too! We Jeanetta Laurence was Alice – a wonderful role in a tweed suit were supposed to be dancing, but I just buried my face in and beret – a bit like Victoria Wood: ‘Ave yer seen mi friend?’.
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