Fact #14949

Cheryl ????? (dancer) : I was lucky enough to be chosen amongst the dancers to appear in Ric Marshall's Production of 'Jack and the Beanstalk' being performed at the Rialto Theatre, West End in Brisbane. The Giant was played by Dick McCann (a Channel 7 children's celebrity named Beanpole, in Brissy) and The Bee Gees performing during the show. I used to spend time with Barry, Maurice and Robin under the stage where there was a rope swing mounted to the rafters. I mainly spoke with Maurice as he was closer to my age. We would talk and hang out between shows. One day the matinee show was cancelled and so with nothing to do until our evening performance, we decided to forfeit our lunch money, donned our leotards, and used the money to head off down the road to the Public Pool. The brothers hired togs from the Pool as you could in those days. It was great fun playing and swimming, diving with the Bee Gees who were just beginning to become famous in Brisbane. They played as a musical intermezzo on stage which was during Interval and throughout the Pantomime, entertaining whilst the sets were being changed. The photo I sent you I was dressed as a boy, because there were not enough boy dancers to fulfil the roles.

One of our evening shows, we performed for the then Governor of Queensland Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith, who we got to meet after the show and shake hands and curtsey to him. On that particular performance, I had ribbons catch on fire. We were wearing red leotards with very long ribbons that trailed from the back of our shoulders out the back and we were running through lines with sparklers. A sparkler from another girl set my ribbons alight, as we ran off stage there was a bucket of cold water into which to place our sparklers, I also had to place my ribbons.
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