Showcase Productions, Inc. was the original packager/producer of much of the prime time, live, dramatic, color, 60 minute and 90 minute programming which appeared primarily on NBC during the period between September 1954 and September 1957.

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"SLEEPING BEAUTY"

Directed By: Clark Jones
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Air Date: 11/14/55
Stars: Margot Fonteyn, Michael Soames, Frederick Ashton, Beryl Grey, Pauline Clayden, Rosemary Lindsay, Rowena Jackson, Philip Chatfield, Brian Shaw
Show: directed by Clark Jones, score by Tchaikovsky, choreography after Petipa, art direction by Richard Day, music adaptation by Robert Irving, special introduction written by John Van Druten, acted by David Wayne, by Sadler's Wells Ballet, costumes by Oliver Messel, with Margot Fonteyn, Michael Soames, Frederick Ashton, Beryl Grey, Pauline Clayden, Rosemary Lindsay, Rowena Jackson, Philip Chatfield, Brian Shaw.

Notes: The director, Clark Jones, believes that he donated a kinescope of this program to the New York City Library, but this has not been confirmed.