Wendy Toye
Studied dancing as a child and when she was only ten years of age produced a ballet at the Palladium. She made her first appearance on the stage at the Old Vic as Mustard Seed in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and then made many West End appearances in “Toad Of Toad Hall”, “Hiawatha”, “The Miracle”, “Ballerina”, “The Golden Toy”, “Tulip Time”, “Love And How To Cure It”, and “Aladdin”. She then choreographed many famous shows including several productions for George Black and many of the Charles Cochran musicals such as “Bless The Bride” (which she also directed). Immediately after playing a major part in “Annie Get Your Gun” she sent her own company, “Ballet-Hoo de Wendy Toye” to Paris for a season. During the 1950’s she began to direct opera in addition to plays and for Sadler’s Wells done “Bluebeard’s Castle”, “The Telephone”, “Russalka”, “Fledermaus”, “Orpheus in the Underworld”, and “La Vie Parisienne”. London stage productions include “As You Like It” at the Old Vic, “A Majority Of One”, and “Robert and Elizabeth”. Also directed on Broadway and for television. directing films including “The Teckman Mystery”, “Raising A Riot”, “All For Mary”, “The Twelfth Day” (in which she also appeared), “True As A Turtle”, “We Joined The Navy”, and “The King’s Breakfast” (which was nominated as the British Entry for the Cannes Festival).
Plays authored
Past productions
- Associate Producer, Singin’ in the Rain, Harold Fielding Ltd
- Director, Gala – A Tribute to Joyce Grenfell
- Deviser, Cowardy Custard, Pitlochry Festival Theatre Company
- Director, This Thing Called Love, Michael Redington and Digby Burnell for Resourceful Productions Ltd
- Director, Colette
- Directed by, The Englishman Amused, Simon Clarke Productions
- Choreograher / Director, Show Boat
- Director, Sybil, Combined Theatrical Charities Appeals Council
- Direction & Musical Staging, The Great Waltz, Bernard Delfont & Harold Fielding’s “Great Waltz” Company
- Director, She Stoops to Conquer, National Theatre at the Young Vic
- Director, The Soldier’s Tale, National Theatre
- Anything Goes
- Director, A Talent to Amuse, Martin Tickner
- Director, Robert and Elizabeth, Marlan Productions Ltd
- Choreographer / Director, Robert and Elizabeth, Marlan Productions Ltd
- Director / Musical numbers staged by, On the Level, Martin Landau for Marlan Productions
- Director, Orpheus in the Underworld
- Director, Virtue in Danger, Mermaid Theatre Company
- Director, Die Fledermaus
- Director, A Majority of One
- Director, As You Like It, Old Vic Company
- Director, As You Like It, Old Vic Company
- Director & Choreographer, Lady at the Wheel
- Director, Wild Thyme, Laurier Lister
- Dances arranged by, Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure
- Director, And So To Bed
- Director, And So To Bed
- Director, Wild Thyme
- Director, Second Threshold
- Director, And So To Bed
- Winnie Tate, Annie Get Your Gun
- Director, Bless the Bride
- Director, Tough at the Top
- Director, The Shephard Show, Firth Shephard
- Director, Big Ben
- Dances & Ensembles, Hi-de-Hi
- Vic-Wells Ballet,The
- Choreographer, There Is A Willow Grows Aslant A Brook, The Camargo Ballet