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George Laurier Lister, OBE (22 April 1907 – 30 September 1986) was an English theatre writer, actor, director and producer, best known for a series of revues presented in London in the late 1940s and 1950s. He was later associated with Laurence Olivier in the West End and at the Chichester Festival. From 1964 to 1975 he was director and administrator of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford.
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Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure . . .
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- Direction : Laurier Lister; Producers : Producers Theatre (A Laurier Lister Production) and Lyn Austin and Thomas Noyes; Choreography : Wendy Toye, John Heawood, Alfred Rodriguez, Beryl Kaye, Paddy Stone, Peter Hamilton, and Irving Davies; Scenery : Scenic supervision by Paul Morrison; décor (and costumes) by Joan and David de Bethel, Vic…Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
- Producers : Roger L. Stevens and Laurier Lister; Costumes : Joyce Grenfell’s dresses by Victor StiebelComplete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals, The - Dan Dietz
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