Weinberl	Ray Brooks
Christopher	Felicity Kendal
Sonders	Barry Mcginn
Marie	Mary Chilton
Zangler	Dinsdale Landen
Gertrud	Hilda Braid
Foreigner	Paul Gregory
Melchior	Michael Kitchen
Hupfer  tailor	John Challis
Lightening	Thomas Henty Timothy Hick
Philippine	Allyson Rees
Madame Knorr	Rosemary McHale
Frau Fischer	Deborah Norton
Coachman	Harold Innocent
Italian Waiter	John Challis
German Couple	Teresa Codling Clyde Gatell
Scottish Couple	Greta Watson Andrew Cuthbert
Second Waiter	Philip Talbot
Constable	Alan Haywood
Fraulein Blumenblatt	Joan Hickson
Lisett her maid	Marianne Morley
Ragamuffin	Paul Ahmet Courtney Roper-Knight Adam Woodyatt
With	Catherine Harding Thomas Henty Timothy Hick

Review
Time Out: Anon

There's something rather defensive about the programme note, which declares 'My purpose is to please, to entertain, to get people laughing'. Not the motto of Tom Stoppard but of Johann Nestroy who provided the basis for Stoppard's latest comic exercise with his mid-19th Century comedy 'Einen Jux Will Er Sich Machen'  (also the basis of 'The Matchmaker'/'Hello Dolly' apparently).

'On The Razzle' is a mixture of farce and comedy with some pleasing sets by Carl Toms (heralded by back-projected sheet music at every turn) and some splendid  comic performances (Michael Kitchen's loquacious servant, Felicity Kendal in apprentice drag and Dinsdale Landen as a malapropistic pomposity of a master grocer). The decisive Stoppardian touches are also present.

What keeps the show afloat, despite a comic voyage which takes us froma small-town grocer's shop to the dizzy heights of Imperial Bourgeois Vienna are Stoppard's dazzling string of verbal jests, misunderstandings, puns and allusions strung together from the beginning of the proceedings: 'I love your niece'...'My knees,sir?  Oh my niece. Well my niece and I are not  to be prised apart so easily, and nor are hers...'.  It might be small beer from the author of 'Travesties', but that would be to miss the point of the production.