It's Australian - and it's good!

By: JohnfThomson

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Collage of Collits' Inn programs:

the original amatuer production, Savoy Theatre, Sydney, 1932; the professional production, Princess Theatre, Melbourne, 1993; and New Tivoli Theatre, Sydney, 1934

PROMPT collection

The stars of the professional production:

(left to right): George Wallace, Robert Chisolm, Gladys Moncrieff and Claude Flemming

Reproduced from Collit's Inn,

New Tivoli Theatre, 1934: program. PROMPT Collection

Collit's In, Hartley Vale:

New South Wales, July 2003

Photograph courtesy of John Thomson

'Australia' by Varney Monk:

from the original score of Collit's Inn as used at the Princess Theatre, 1933

Papers of Varney Monk;

Manuscript Colleciton, MS 2294

Courtesy of Victoria Monk

Photograph of the set for Act One, Scene 1,

'The Tap-Room' of Collit's Inn, from the first professional produciton, Princess Theatre Melbourne, 1933

Papers of Varney Monk; Manuscript Colleciton, MS 2294

Watercolour costume design for an Officer

by Pierre Fornari Pty Ltd, 1934

Papers of Varney Monk; Manuscript Collection, MS2294

Portrait of Varney Monk

Reproduced from Collit's Inn.

Princess Theatre, 1933: program. PROMPT Collection