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Wendy Toye

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Choreographer 1917–2010

Beryl May Jessie Toye, (1 May 1917 – 27 February 2010), known professionally as Wendy Toye, was a British dancer, stage and film director and actress.

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In the literature5 passages

  • Direction : John Burrell (Wendy Toye, Associate Director and the uncredited choreographer); Producers : Peter Lawrence and R. (Roger) L. Stevens; Scenery and Lighting : Ralph Alswang; Costumes : Motley; Musical Direction : Ben Steinbergebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • Direction : Laurier Lister; Producers : Producers Theatre (A Laurier Lister Production) and Lyn Austin and Thomas Noyes; Choreography : Wendy Toye, John Heawood, Alfred Rodriguez, Beryl Kaye, Paddy Stone, Peter Hamilton, and Irving Davies; Scenery : Scenic supervision by Paul Morrison; décor (and costumes) by Joan and David de Bethel, Vic…ebooks/Dietz, Dan/Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz.txt
  • PC: Annie Oakley : Dolores Gray; Frank Butler : Bill Johnson; Tommy Keeler : Irving Davies; Winnie Tate : Wendy Toye; Buffalo Bill Cody : Ellis Irving; Charlie Davenport : Hal Bryan; Dolly Tate : Barbara Babingtonebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
  • MN: At the Spotlight Canteen; Where You Are; You Don’t Dance; Strip Tease Girl; Thanks for a Lousy Evening; You’re Perf; Story of a Girl [music by Freddie Bretherton; dance arranged by Wendy Toye]; Twelve O’Clock; Inspection with the Feet; Going Adrift; Beguine; Follow the Girls; Brave Jack Tar; The Debut [dance arranged by Wendy Toye]; I…ebooks/Wright, Adrian/West End Broadway_ The Golden Age of the American Musical in London - Adrian Wright.txt
  • COWARDY CUSTARD; Music/Lyrics by Noel Coward; Devised by Gerald Frow, Alan Strachan and Wendy Toye; Director, David Dunn Bauer; Musical Director, N. Thomas Pedersen; Choreography, Hal Simons; Press, Audrey Ross. CAST: Anne Gartlan, Judith Jarosz, Jeanette Landis, Karol Richter, Kenneth Garner, Mark L. Greenberg, Richard Bret Miller, Micha…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1990-1991 Season, v. 47 (Willis).txt

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