Production Team
Producer - Jack Tait
Musical Director - S. Gordon Lang
Choreographer - Douglas Gray

Characters in order of their appearance
Jennifer Rumson - Margaret Hay
Salem Trumbull - Bill Struthers
Jasper - Bill Walker
Ben Rumson - David Hughes
Steve Bullnack - Leonard Johnson
Cherry - Barbara McElroy
Jake Whippany - Denis Hannigan
Mike Mooney - Martin Shelley
Edgar Crocker - Ken Clements
Sandy Twist - Colin Thomas
Julio Valeras - Allan Smith
Jacob Woodling - Jim Barr
Elizabeth Woodling - Morag Wilson
Sarah Woodling - Elaine Anderson
Raymond Janney - James Caullay

Miners
Jack Allan, Bruce Arthur, Tom Borland, John Cameron, Robbie Crawford, Gordon Hughes, Graham Hughes, Peter King, Jim Maxwell, Robert McDermott, Harry McLarnon,Edward Pearce, Bill Roberts, Harry Sheridan, Bob Stewart, Philip Trainor, Gilbert Wedgewood

Dancers
Lesley Baird, Dorothy Bedford, Helen Craig, Sandra Goodfellow, Carol Hannigan, Joan Shelley, Mairi Steele, Susan Struthers, Susan Turner, Bruce Arthur, Douglas Gray, Gordon Hughes, Graham Hughes, Jim Maxwell, Martin Shelley, Philip Trainor, Bill Walker

Stage manager - David Waters
Club Accompanist - Nan McKechnie
Assistant to Producer - Hugh McNeil
Dance Pianist - Margaret McAdie
Property Master - Jack McElroy
Wardrobe mistresses - Edna Porter
Leader of Orchestra - Andrew Wilson
Prompter - Betty Thomson

Performance Details
27th February - 4th March 1978
The Village Theatre,
East Kilbride

Act I
Overture

I'm on my Way - Chorus
Rumson Town - Jake
What's goin' on here? - Jennifer
I talk to the trees - Julio and Jennifer
Lonely Men Ballet - Dancers
They call the wind Maria - Steve and Chorus
I still see Elisa - Ben
How can I wait - Jennifer
I'm on my way - Elizabeth, Sarah and Jacob
Night is stealing - Elizabeth, Sarah and Jacob
In Between - Ben
Whoop-Ti-Ay - Ben and Chorus
Carino Mio - Julio
There's a coach comin in - Chorus
Fandangoes Entrance - Dancers and Chorus

Scene 1 A Californian hillop,May 1853
Scene 2 Various parts of California
Scene 3 In fron of Salem's store, July
Scene 4 Outside Rumson's cabin,two months later
Scene 5 Rumson's cabin, September
Scene 6 A hillside near Rumson
Scene 7 Dutchie's saloon, the following Sunday
Scene 8 Outside Rumson's cabin, that night
Scene 9 Julio's cabin
Scene 10 On the way to the Square

Act II
Entracte

Hand me down that Can of Beans - Jake, Chorus and Dancers
Doll Dance - Joan, Lesley and Jim
Can Can - Dorothy and Dancers
Another Autumn - Julio, Sandra and Jim
Movin - Men
All for Him - Jennifer
Wandering Star - Ben
I talk to the Trees - Jennifer
Wandering Star - Steve, Jake and Chorus

Scene 1 Jake's Palace, November 1854
Scene 2 The diggins, two weeks later
Scene 3 Rumson's cabin, December
Scene 4 A street in Rumson, the next day
Scene 5 Jake's Palace, immediately following
Scene 6 A hillside near Rumson, the next day
Scene 7 Rumson Square, the following Spring

Hon. President - Hugh C. Gray,
Hon. Vice-President - W. Gordon McNay, OBE
President - William Struthers
Vice-President - Denis Hannigan
Secretary - Elaine Anderson
Treasurer - Nancy Hughes
Committee - Jack Tait, Elizabeth Struthers, Tom Borland, Martin Shelley, Morag Arthur, Gordon Hughes

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