Record

Performance TitleThe Queen's Shilling - A Celebration in Words and Music of 1,000 Years of Service to the Crown, in aid of SSAFA
Performance Date4 October 1987
Performance DaySunday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersRosalind Ayres,
Peter Bowles,
Max Bygraves,
Jonathan Cecil,
Charles Collingwood,
Judy Cornwell,
Bernard Cribbins,
Isabel Dean,
Hannah Gordon,
Garard Green,
James Grout,
Martin Jarvis,
Crawford Logan,
T P McKenna,
Virginia McKenna,
Sir John Mills,
Richard Morant,
Julie Osburn,
Melinda Walker,
Moray Watson
Orchestra or BandTrumpeters of the Life Guards,
The Band of the Coldstream Guards,
The Band of the Scots Guards,
Drummers, Pipers and Dancers of the First Battalion Scots Guards
ChoirsBasingstoke Male Voice Choir 1964-1987
ConductorsMajor D Carson,
David Ogborn
Set ListOverture - 'Keepers of the Peace', Adams (Bands of the Coldstream and Scots Guards, Trumpeters of the Life Guards),
'Reveille', trad. (Bands of the Coldstream and Scots Guards, Trumpeters of the Life Guards),
Opening - 'The Services' (Rosemary Anne Sisson, Peter Bowles, Sir John Mills, Moray Watson),
'The Army, The Navy and The Air Force', Darewski, Locton (Band),
'The Queen's Shilling', Sergeant Major (Rosemary Anne Sisson, Bernard Cribbins),
'Falstaff', G Bernard Shaw (James Grout),
'Joan of Arc' (Hannah Gordon),
'The Dauphin' (Jonathan Cecil),
'Boadicea', William Cowper (Isabel Dean),
1st Narrator, John Byrom (Martin Jarvis),
2nd Narrator, Sir John Harrington (Rosalind Ayres),
'Over the Sea to Skye', trad. (Basingstoke Male Voice Choir, Drummers, Pipers and Dancers 1st Battalion Scots Guards),
'The Jacobite', Lord Macaulay (Moray Watson),
'Will Ye No' Come Back Again?' (Melinda Walker),
'Tommy', Kipling (Bernard Cribbins),
'We Don't Want To Lose You', Rubens (Julie Osburn, Band & Choir),
'Hotspur', Shakespeare (Richard Morant),
'Keep the Home Fires Burning', Novello (Choir),
'The War Generation', Vera Brittain (Judy Cornwell),
'Soldier of the First Hundred Thousand', Ian Hay (Charles Collingwood),
Excerpt from 'The Scottish Soldier', trad. (Band),
'The First Hundred Thousand', Ian Hay,
'Company Commander' (Moray Watson),
'Sergeant' (Charles Collingwood),
'Private Dunshie' (Crawford Logan),
'Pack up your Troubles', Powell (Band, Choir),
Mounted Officer, Anon (Jonathan Cecil),
Infantryman (James Grout),
Boots, Kipling,
'Attack', Siegfried Sassoon (Martin Jarvis),
'Journey's End', R C Sherriff,
'Colonel', Garard Green
'Osborne', Richard Morant
'Raleigh', Crawford Logan
'Mason' (Bernard Cribbins),
Jupiter, The Planet Suite, Holst (Band, Organ),
'The General', Siegfried Sassoon (T P McKenna),
'The Soldier', Kipling (Martin Jarvis),
'The Statesman', Kipling (Garard Green),
'1st Gentleman', Anon. (Jonathan Cecil),
'2nd Gentleman', Anon. (James Grout),
'Lillibulero', arr. Platter,(Fifes and Drums, Band, Organ),
'Sam Small', Stanley Holloway, Wolseley Childs (Sir John Mills)
INTERVAL
'Here's a Health Unto His Majesty', trad. (Band),
'Polly Oliver', trad. (Julie Osburn),
'Female Hospital Visitor', Anon. (Hannah Gordon),
'Matron' (Isabel Dean),
'Wife' (Hannah Gordon),
'Husband', Kipling (Bernard Cribbins, Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres),
'March Kismet', Markie (Band),
'Code of Morals', Kipling (Peter Bowles),
'Soldier, Soldier', arr. Thirtle (Melinda Walker, Bernard Cribbins),
'The Dane Woman', Kipling (Isabel Dean),
'Nelson' (Charles Collingwood),
'Devon Seaman' (James Grout),
'All the Nice Girls Love a Sailor', Scott (Band, Choir),
'Persuasion', Jane Austen,
'Captain Harville', Richard Morant,
'Anne Eliot', Judy Cornwell,
'My Boy Jack', Kipling (Martin Jarvis, Rosalind Ayres),
'Convoy Escort', Kipling (Garard Green),
'Victory at Sea', Rodgers (Band, Organ),
'The Cruel Sea', Nicholas Monserrat,
Number One (Peter Bowles),
Captain (Sir John Mills),
Torpedo-Man (Charles Collingwood),
1st Narrator (Rosemary Anne Sisson, Martin Jarvis),
2nd Narrator (Rosalind Ayres),
'Drake's Drum', Newbolt, Stanford,
'Colditz', Jim Rogers, Crawford Logan
'Never Get Out', John Galsworthy (Virginia McKenna),
'Joan of Arc', G Bernard Shaw (Hannah Gordon),
'Pilot Officer Prune', Anthony Armstrong (Jonathan Cecil),
'1st Narrator' (Martin Jarvis),
'A/C Plonk' (James Grout),
'RAF March', Davies (Band),
'Irish Airman', W B Yeats (T P McKenna),
'The Minstrel Boy', trad. (Melinda Walker),
'Missing', John Pudney (Charles Collingwood),
'White Cliffs of Dover', Burton, Kent (Choir, Band),
'Flarepath'
'Peter' - T P McKenna,
'Patricia' Melinda Walker
'Doris' Judy Cornwell,
'Squadron Leader Swanson', Moray Watson,
'For Johnny', John Pudney (Isabel Dean),
'Abide With Me', Monk (Choir),
'A Lament', Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (Rosalind Ayres),
'Rupert Brooke's Death', Denis Browne (Jonathan Cecil),
'If I Should Die', Rupert Brook (Richard Morant),
'Last Post', trad. (Trumpeters),
'Cockney Soldier', Kipling (James Grout),
'American Lady' (Julie Osburn),
'Death is Nothing At All', Canon Henry Scott Holland (Bernard Cribbins),
'Cavalcade Jane', Coward (Hannah Gordon),
'Everyone Suddenly Bursts Out Singing', Siegfried Sassoon (Sir John Mills),
Finale - 'We'll Meet Again', Parker, Charles (Max Bygraves, Band, Choir, Entire cast, Audience)
Royal PresenceA unique theatrical production in cameo, words and music, which celebrates 1,000 years of service to the Crown.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1987/139)
Ticket Prices£3-£15
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/9kB91.191xpuqY
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1987/139The Queen's Shilling - A Celebration in Words & Music of 1,000 Years of Service to the Crown4 October 1987
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Iboozeaz_KoroigThe Queen's Shilling - A Celebration in Words and Music of 1,000 Years of Service to the Crown, in aid of SSAFA1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/5553Cribbins; Bernard (1928-2022); OBE; English actor, voice-over artist, musical comedian
DS/UK/15411Bowles; Peter (1936-2022); English actor
DS/UK/9097Bygraves; Max (16 October 1922-31 August 2012); OBE; English comedian, singer, actor and variety performer
DS/UK/15412Ayres; Rosalind (7 December 1946); English actress, director and producer
DS/UK/15413Collingwood; Charles (1943-); British actor
DS/UK/15414Cecil; Jonathan (1939-2011); English actor
DS/UK/9322Gordon; Hannah Cambell Grant (1941-); Scottish actress
DS/UK/12806Jarvis; Martin (1941-); OBE; English actor
DS/UK/15543McKenna; Thomas Patrick 'TP' (1929-2011); Irish actor
DS/UK/15544McKenna; Virginia A (1931-); OBE; British stage and screen actress, author, wildlife campaigner
DS/UK/7751Mills; Sir; John (1908-2005); English actor
DS/UK/15545Morant; Richard (1945-2011); English actor
DS/UK/2429British Army; The Band of the Coldstream Guards; 1785-; British army band
DS/UK/2392British Army; The Band of HM Scots Guards; 1642-; British Army division
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