Partners in Time

Partners in Time is a musical revue by Darryl Nel. It traces the musical writing partnerships of Jerome Kern & Oscar Hammerstein II, George & Ira Gershwin, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II, Alan Jay Lerner & Frederick Loewe, Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice, Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schoenberg (all in the 1996 version), and Tim Rice & Elton John (included in the 2001 version).

Productions December 1996, produced by Dramsoc at The Playhouse in East London, directed by Darryl Nel, with musical direction by Winston Paxton and choreography by Lynne Stanton. The cast included Keith Smith, Gavin Pretorius, Darryl Nel, Maria de Boer, Melanie Drake, Lizl Rautenbach, Bronwyn Sole, Susan Friedrichs, Chantal Carr, Nobuntu Mpahlaza and Andrew Edgar.

November 2001, produced by The PE Gilbert & Sullivan Society at the Savoy Theatre, directed by Darryl Nel, with choreography by Jenni Zeelie. The cast included Leslie Speyers, Heidi Kruger, Mark Farrow, Asanda Bhuda, Marelize Marx, Danielle Kellermann, Craig Gilchrist, Anda Govuzela and Jacques Venter.

Sources: Theatre programmes, 1996 & 2001 productions

Daily Dispatch, 13 December 1996

Die Burger, 2 November 2001