Record

Performance TitleWhen You Wish Upon a Star - A Gala Christmas Concert
Performance Date7 December 1983
Performance DayWednesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersPeter Morrison,
Diane Keen,
David Tomlinson,
Joan Savage - vocals
Christopher Vezey,
Russell Grant - speakers

Jean Challis,
Pamela Field
Orchestra or BandBBC Radio Orchestra,
Stutz Bear Cats (Jane Beaumont, Chris Hennen, Nick Lloyd, Sue Wright)
ChoirsThe John McCarthy Singers,
St. Winifred's School Choir
ConductorsIain Sutherland
Set List'When You Wish Upon a Star' (BBC Radio Orchestra),
'Lets Go Fly a Kite' (BBC Radio Orchestra),
Mary Poppins Selection - 'Spoonful of Sugar', 'Chim Chim Cheree', 'Supercalifragilistic' (Joan Savage),
'Love is a Song' from Bambi (Peter Morrison),
'Little April Showers' from Bambi (St. Winifred's School Choir),
Cat Medley - 'Aristocats' from The Aristocats, 'Siamese Cat Song' from The Lady and the Tramp, 'Thomas O'Malley Cat' from The Aristocats, 'Everybody Wants to be a Cat' from The Aristocats (Stutz Bear Cats),
'The Second Star to the Right' from Peter Pan (Pamela Field),
'Hi Diddle Dee Dee' from Pinocchio (Russell Grant),
'Journey Through Fantasia' - 'Toccata and Fugue', J S Bach, 'Night on the Bare Mountain', Mussorgsky, arr. Rimsky Korsakov, 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy', Tchaikovsky, 'Trepak', Tchaikovsky, 'The Sorcerer's Apprentice', Dukas, 'Dance of the Hours', Ponchielli (BBC Radio Orchestra),
'The Beautiful Briny' from Bedknobs and Broomsticks (St. Winifred's School Choir),
'Zip-a-dee-doo-dah' from Song of the South (Peter Morrison),
'Give a Little Whistle' from Snow White (Russell Grant),
'Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier' (John McCarthy Singers),
'When You Wish Upon a Star' from Pinocchio (Pamela Field)
INTERVAL (Interval talk - Jean Challis)
'I Wanna Be Like You' from Jungle Book (Stutz Bear Cats),
'Bare Necessities' from Jungle Book (Stutz Bear Cats)
'A Dream is a Wish' from Cinderella (Pamela Field),
'I've Got No Strings' from Pinocchio (Russell Grant),
'It's a Small World Medley' - 'It's a Small World', 'Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf', 'Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo', 'Let's Go Fly a Kite' (St. Winifred's School Choir),
'Bella Notte' from Lady and the Tramp (Peter Morrison),
'He's a Tramp' from Lady and the Tramp (Joan Savage),
'Sleeping Beauty Waltz' (BBC Radio Orchestra),
Finale - 'The Story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs' 'I'm Wishing', 'One Song', 'With a Smile and a Song', 'Whistle While You Work', 'Heigh Ho', 'Silly Song', 'Someday My Prince will Come' (Diane Keen, Full Company)
Performance NotesA Grand Gala concert arranged by BBC Radio 2 and Walt Disney Productions to celebrate 60 years of Disney music. This was the first time in the world that a concert had ever been run by the Walt Disney Music Company. your favourite Disney characters live on stage - a great Christmas treat for all the family!
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1983/191)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/cqcD3ZcvghWY
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1983/191'When You Wish Upon a Star' - A Gala Christmas Concert7 December 1983
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Odor_Lex_GolWhen You Wish Upon a Star - A Gala Christmas Concert1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/11942Challis; Jean (1934-); English actress
DS/UK/3493Grant; Russell John Dammerall (1951-); British astrologer, media personality
DS/UK/11943Keen; Diane (1946-); English actress
DS/UK/11944Stutz Bear Cats (1981-)
DS/UK/11947The John McCarthy Singers; fl 1960s-1980s; English singing ensemble
DS/UK/11953Field; Pamela (fl 1970s-); Welsh soprano
DS/UK/11955Savage; Joan (fl 1950s-1980s); English actress, singer and comedienne
DS/UK/11956Tomlinson; David (1917-2000); English film actor and comedian
DS/UK/11957Sutherland; Iain (fl 1960s-); Scottish violinist and orchestra conductor
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