Gypsy Baron
Karingal High School
April 1974
Sándor Barinkay has returned home to his family estate after spending his life working as an animal trainer in a performing troop. While dealing with the paperwork with Count Carnero, Barinkay finds that a lot has been going on in his absence; gypsies have moved onto his land, and the local pig farmer, Zsupan, has expanded his enterprises there as well. Barinkay wants an easy life, so he offers to marry Zsupan’s daughter Arsena in exchange for them using the land. Arsena has other ideas, as she is already in love with Ottokar, the son of her governess, Mirabella (and, as it turns out, Count Carnero). When the gypsy fortune-teller, Czipra, announces that Barinkay is their foretold leader, he is proclaimed ‘Der Zigeuenerbaron’ , ‘The Gypsy Baron’. With this new title, he offers again to marry Arsena, and is rejected again. Concerned with having a wife and finally settling down, he then chooses Saffi, Czipras’ daughter. The two fall in love, and vow their marriage to nature and the sky. Unfortunately, that is not official enough for Count Carnero, and he requests that the legal requirements be fulfilled. Another revelation from Czipra makes this impossible: Saffi is actually a princess, and the daughter of a Turkish Pasha. She is too far above Barinkay’s station for him to marry her. Barinkay gives up and joins the army to fight the war in Spain, along with several other men who are swept up by the recruiting troops that pass through the town. Several years later, the men are celebrating a great victory in the war. For his bravery, Barinkay is rewarded with a title, and can finally marry Saffi.
PRODUCTION TEAM
Director | Robert Turner |
Musical Director | Basil Gleeson |
Choreographer | Marie Morden |
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Production Co-ordinator | John McCormack |
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Stage Manger | John Rekers |
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Lighting Director | Peter L. Hart |
Scenic Design and Artist | Pat Morton |
Wardrobe Mistress | Lyn Fisher |
Properties | Joan Hooke |
| Rhonda Horwood |
Prompter | Joan Keeley |
Ticket Secretary | Isabel Myring |
House Managers | Anne Parry |
| Tom Hooke |
Program | Peter Hart |
Rehearsal Pianist | Celia Hallam |
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Backstage | Tony Evans |
| Veronica Ferguson |
| John Langman |
| Tony Macer |
| Ron Kitchen |
| Denis Wiltshire |
| Tom Hand |
Lighting | Owen Marsh |
| Ric Merrin |
| Bruce Morton |
| Colin Tyrus |
Wardrobe | Elizabeth Palmer |
Suppers | Terry Owenden |
| Gloria Hand |
| Libbie Kennedy |
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Violin | Irene Boyce |
| John Conyers |
| Emerald Rangott |
| Doris Boyce |
| Myrtle Robertson |
| Nellie Byrant |
Viola | Heather Birrell |
| Ted Gruenberger |
Cello | Lauren Kennedy |
| Caroline Doyle |
Bass | Don More |
Flute | Roger Bruce |
Clarinet | Alan Tacon |
| Ian Clapperton |
Trumpet | Mal Torry |
| Jeanette Shepherd |
Trombone | Done Hale |
Percussion | Michael Robinson |
Pianist | Celia Hallam |
CAST
Otto | Peter Stennett |
Miska | Grant Kennedy |
Pali | Peter Moon |
Franzi | Hilary Moon |
Vanya | Noelyne Godson |
Arletta | Rosslyn Stokoe |
Kalman Zsupan | Bill McNeilly |
Mirabella | Audrey Carruthers |
Czipra | Isobel Taylor |
Saffi | Beth Coops |
Count Kareska | Stan Riley |
Sandor Barinkay | Barry Woodford |
Graf Peter Homonoy | Martyn Keely |
Female Chorus | Judith Breese |
| Sharon chie |
| Wyn Crabtree |
| Anne Dare |
| Margaret Duff |
| Bev Hann |
| Gail Hoggins |
| Kim Jarvis |
| Linda Jarvis |
| Jenny Jones |
| Norma Macer |
| Pat Morton |
| Sue McCormack |
| Joan Nightingale |
| Betty Packham |
| Denise Patrick |
| Joan Pearson |
| Julia Power |
| Jean Riley |
| Betty Schlager |
| Barbara Spencer |
| Yvonne Shilston |
Male Chorus | Rudolph Brink |
| Colin Coster |
| Phil Davies |
| Don Jones |
| Dusty Lewis |
| Clem Macer |
| Nigel Nettleship |
| John Ross |
| Bruce Shepherd |
| Alex Young |
| Bob Crabtree |
| Bill Kennedy |
Attendants | Robert Canning |
| Tom Canning |
Ballet | Estelle Canning |
| Jane Collins |
| Shane Couper |
| Margaret Haigh |
| Christine Hoffman |
| Alison Morden |
| Sandra Olliver |
| Sian Rodda |
| Karen Stannett |
| Gwen Stokoe |
