The Little Sweep
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The Little Sweep is an opera
for children in three scenes by the English composer Benjamin Britten
, with a libretto
by Eric Crozier
.
The format of the play altered radically in the early months of its existence, passing through at least three versions (including one specially written for radio) utilising different approaches to the exposition. An initial version set "on the stage of any village hall" during an open dress-rehearsal for an already-written work morphs into one where the "Little Sweep" narrative is related by Gladys (Mrs. Parworthy) as a true story which happened to her grandmother, Juliet Brook, when Juliet was a fourteen-year-old in 1809 or 1810. In this telling the long-term happy ending is revealed, that Juliet's uncle (the father of the visiting Crome children) took Sammy the rescued sweep-boy on as a gardener's boy. Gladys's mother remembered him as "old Samuel Sparrow, the head gardener", who used to give her apricots on her birthday. The group of six adults (including the conductor) and six children choose this as the subject of their home-made opera, libretto by Anne Dougall, a young Scottish bank clerk, and music by Norman Chaffinch, an enthusiastic amateur. The opera is written, composed, cast, produced and rehearsed in the space of less than an hour.
The adult characters in the play were given the cast members' own Christian names and invented surnames, while the children originally had the Christian names of the children in the opera. For these, Britten used the names of the children and nephews of John Gathorne-Hardy, 4th Earl of Cranbrook
, a personal friend of the composer's, whose family seat of Great Glemham House lies a few miles inland from Aldeburgh
, close to Snape
. In later versions of the play the children also acquired the names of the respective cast members, and Elisabeth Parrish became Pamela, to reflect the part of Rowan having been taken over by Pamela Woolmore, who originally understudied the role.
by William Blake
, entitled The Chimney Sweeper
, and as Crozier relates, "by that evening we had planned the structure, action and characters of a short opera in three scenes."
As with Albert Herring
, the opera which had opened the first Aldeburgh Festival, the action was to be set locally in Suffolk, this time in Iken
Hall, a large rambling farmhouse on the banks of the river Alde. The child characters were transplanted from a nearby country house, Great Glenham, which in the late eighteenth century had been the home of George Crabbe
, the author of the poem The Borough which had formed the basis of Britten's 1945 masterpiece Peter Grimes
. Great Glemham House was (and is) the home of Lord Cranbrook
, a personal friend of the composer's who was at that time Chairman of the Aldeburgh Festival. Britten and Crozier adopted the names and personas of his children and nephews for the opera (although the children themselves were not involved in the production), and the opera is "affectionately dedicated to the real Gay, Juliet, Sophie, Tina, Hughie, Jonny and Sammy - the Gathorne-Hardys of Great Glemham, Suffolk."
The enthusiastic response of the audience to the congregational hymns incorporated in the cantata Saint Nicolas encouraged Britten and Crozier to build on this concept, and rely on the audience themselves to provide the chorus. The five adult parts (including that of Juliet, the eldest girl) were written for five members of the English Opera Group
, and the remaining six children's parts were filled by boys and girls from the Ipswich
Co-operative Society Choir.
Orchestral
Britten chose modest orchestral forces; string quartet (one instrument per part), piano duet (four hands on one piano), and percussion (cymbal, tenor drum and bass drum) requiring only one player. The vocal score, published by Boosey and Hawkes in 1950, incorporates a version for two pianos and percussion, with additional notation in the piano parts for use if the percussion instruments are unavailable.
The part of the "small, quiet and timid" 8-year-old Tina was understudied for the first performance by future Bond Girl
Shirley Eaton
, then aged twelve. She took over the part the following year for the television broadcast.
While their mother is absent "seeing papa off to join his ship", the three Brook children of Iken Hall have been playing host to their three Crome cousins, together with their nursery-maid. The visit is due to end the following day.
The door opens and Juliet enters furtively, before climbing into an armchair and covering herself with a dust-sheet. The children are playing hide-and-seek, apparently the version known as sardines
. Jonny finds Juliet and joins her in her hiding-place, but their game is interrupted by a cry of distress from Sammy, who has become stuck in the chimney. The commotion attracts the other four children, and they succeed in extricating the sweep-boy from his predicament while singing the shanty Pull the rope gently. Like Rowan, the children are horrified by Sammy's condition. They decide to hide him in the nursery while faking up a line of footprints to make it seem as if he has escaped through the window.
Miss Baggott and Rowan return with the sweeps, and are thoroughly taken in by the ruse. Black Bob and Clem run off in search of Sammy, pursued by Miss Baggott insisting that they get on with the job. Thinking herself alone, Rowan sings an aria (Run, poor sweep-boy) expressing her wish that she could help Sam escape. Overhearing this, the children gradually emerge from under the dust-sheets and set about persuading her to help them get Sam away from the sweeps. A decision is taken to feed him and bath him, and the curtain falls on the preparations for the bath.
Jonny conceives the plan of smuggling Sam into his travelling-trunk so that he can be carried out of the house unseen when the Crome children leave the following day. Rowan agrees, just as Miss Baggott returns in a furious rage over her treatment by the sweeps, who have accused her of hiding their apprentice. There is a mad scramble to hide Sammy and look as innocent and natural as possible as Miss Baggott enters the room. At the spectacle of the grubby, sooty, untidy state of the nursery, the housekeeper's ire is redirected towards the children. Seeing toys lying around she approaches the toy-cupboard where Sammy is hiding, reaching for the door-handle. In desperation Juliet fakes a fainting fit, which has the desired effect. Everyone fusses around Juliet, who is eventually carried to her bedroom, as Jonny reassures Sam and urges him to "sit tight, and tomorrow you're a free man."
As soon as the coach has notionally departed, the entire cast returns to the stage for the Coaching Song. They form a tableau with a rocking-horse and chairs arranged to form a coach, and sing together with the audience, describing Sammy's journey to safety and freedom.
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
for children in three scenes by the English composer Benjamin Britten
Benjamin Britten
Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...
, with a libretto
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
by Eric Crozier
Eric Crozier
Eric Crozier was a British theatrical director and opera librettist, long associated with Benjamin Britten....
.
Let's Make an Opera!
The Little Sweep is the second part of a stage production entitled Let's Make an Opera!. The first part takes the form of a play in which the cast portray contemporary amateur performers conceiving, creating and rehearsing the opera. Intended as an introduction to and demystification of the operatic genre, the play also provides an opportunity to rehearse the audience in the four "Audience Songs" they will sing after the interval.The format of the play altered radically in the early months of its existence, passing through at least three versions (including one specially written for radio) utilising different approaches to the exposition. An initial version set "on the stage of any village hall" during an open dress-rehearsal for an already-written work morphs into one where the "Little Sweep" narrative is related by Gladys (Mrs. Parworthy) as a true story which happened to her grandmother, Juliet Brook, when Juliet was a fourteen-year-old in 1809 or 1810. In this telling the long-term happy ending is revealed, that Juliet's uncle (the father of the visiting Crome children) took Sammy the rescued sweep-boy on as a gardener's boy. Gladys's mother remembered him as "old Samuel Sparrow, the head gardener", who used to give her apricots on her birthday. The group of six adults (including the conductor) and six children choose this as the subject of their home-made opera, libretto by Anne Dougall, a young Scottish bank clerk, and music by Norman Chaffinch, an enthusiastic amateur. The opera is written, composed, cast, produced and rehearsed in the space of less than an hour.
The adult characters in the play were given the cast members' own Christian names and invented surnames, while the children originally had the Christian names of the children in the opera. For these, Britten used the names of the children and nephews of John Gathorne-Hardy, 4th Earl of Cranbrook
Earl of Cranbrook
Earl of Cranbrook, in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1892 for the prominent Conservative politician Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook. He notably held office as Home Secretary, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State...
, a personal friend of the composer's, whose family seat of Great Glemham House lies a few miles inland from Aldeburgh
Aldeburgh Festival
The Aldeburgh Festival is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk, centred on the main concert hall at Snape Maltings...
, close to Snape
Snape Maltings
Snape Maltings is part of Snape, Suffolk, U.K., best known for its concert hall, which is one of the main sites of the annual Aldeburgh Festival....
. In later versions of the play the children also acquired the names of the respective cast members, and Elisabeth Parrish became Pamela, to reflect the part of Rowan having been taken over by Pamela Woolmore, who originally understudied the role.
Composition history
Britten and Crozier had been thinking about a children's opera for some years, but only began to put the concept into practice in the autumn of 1948 when planning the programme for the second Aldeburgh Festival. One afternoon Britten suggested two Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceSongs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience is an illustrated collection of poems by William Blake. It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of...
by William Blake
William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age...
, entitled The Chimney Sweeper
The Chimney Sweeper
"The Chimney Sweeper" is the title of two poems by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789 and Songs of Experience in 1794. The poem "The Chimney Sweeper" is set against the dark background of child labor that was well known in England in the late 18th and 19th century. At the age of...
, and as Crozier relates, "by that evening we had planned the structure, action and characters of a short opera in three scenes."
As with Albert Herring
Albert Herring
Albert Herring, Op. 39, is a chamber opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten.Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera was a successor to his serious opera The Rape of Lucretia...
, the opera which had opened the first Aldeburgh Festival, the action was to be set locally in Suffolk, this time in Iken
Iken
Iken is a small village and civil parish in the marshlands of the English county of Suffolk.It is near the estuary of the River Alde on the North Sea coast and is located south east of Snape and due north of Orford....
Hall, a large rambling farmhouse on the banks of the river Alde. The child characters were transplanted from a nearby country house, Great Glenham, which in the late eighteenth century had been the home of George Crabbe
George Crabbe
George Crabbe was an English poet and naturalist.-Biography:He was born in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, the son of a tax collector, and developed his love of poetry as a child. In 1768, he was apprenticed to a local doctor, who taught him little, and in 1771 he changed masters and moved to Woodbridge...
, the author of the poem The Borough which had formed the basis of Britten's 1945 masterpiece Peter Grimes
Peter Grimes
Peter Grimes is an opera by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto adapted by Montagu Slater from the Peter Grimes section of George Crabbe's poem The Borough...
. Great Glemham House was (and is) the home of Lord Cranbrook
Earl of Cranbrook
Earl of Cranbrook, in the County of Kent, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1892 for the prominent Conservative politician Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Viscount Cranbrook. He notably held office as Home Secretary, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State...
, a personal friend of the composer's who was at that time Chairman of the Aldeburgh Festival. Britten and Crozier adopted the names and personas of his children and nephews for the opera (although the children themselves were not involved in the production), and the opera is "affectionately dedicated to the real Gay, Juliet, Sophie, Tina, Hughie, Jonny and Sammy - the Gathorne-Hardys of Great Glemham, Suffolk."
Musical forces
VocalThe enthusiastic response of the audience to the congregational hymns incorporated in the cantata Saint Nicolas encouraged Britten and Crozier to build on this concept, and rely on the audience themselves to provide the chorus. The five adult parts (including that of Juliet, the eldest girl) were written for five members of the English Opera Group
English Opera Group
The English Opera Group was a small company of British musicians formed in 1947 by the composer Benjamin Britten for the purpose of presenting his and other, primarily British, composers' operatic works. The group later expanded in order to present larger-scale works, and was renamed the English...
, and the remaining six children's parts were filled by boys and girls from the Ipswich
Ipswich
Ipswich is a large town and a non-metropolitan district. It is the county town of Suffolk, England. Ipswich is located on the estuary of the River Orwell...
Co-operative Society Choir.
Orchestral
Britten chose modest orchestral forces; string quartet (one instrument per part), piano duet (four hands on one piano), and percussion (cymbal, tenor drum and bass drum) requiring only one player. The vocal score, published by Boosey and Hawkes in 1950, incorporates a version for two pianos and percussion, with additional notation in the piano parts for use if the percussion instruments are unavailable.
First Performance
The Little Sweep was the first of Britten's operas to be entirely conceived, composed and produced at Aldeburgh. Work continued throughout the spring and the first performance was given on 14th June 1949 in the Jubilee Hall. Imogen Holst describes "a hubbub of excited comment" from the first audience as even seasoned opera-goers raised their eyebrows at the standard expected of the audience/chorus ("What! In five-four?" "What? Diminished octaves?"), and the consternation of a "tall thin music critic" uncertain of the precise divisi required for the four birdsong choirs in the Night Song. The performance was a huge success, with the final Coaching Song in which the children on stage improvised a coach using a rocking-horse, a couple of chairs, and two parasols for the wheels, hailed as a triumph.Roles
| Role (play) | Role (opera) | Voice | Original cast |
|---|---|---|---|
GROWN-UPS |
|||
| Norman Chaffinch a zealous, enthusiastic amateur actor and producer |
Black Bob a brutal sweep-master and Tom coachman from Woodbridge |
bass | Norman Lumsden Norman Lumsden Norman Lumsden was a British opera singer and actor. He first came to prominence during the 1940s and 1950s in several operas by composer Benjamin Britten, often performing at Covent Garden and the Aldeburgh and Glyndebourne festivals. He later began a television acting career during the 1970s... |
| Gladys Parworthy a kind, motherly neighbour of his with great experience of amateur acting |
Miss Baggott housekeeper at Iken Hall |
contralto | Gladys Parr |
| Elisabeth Parrish teaches English and Music at the local school and has helped the children write their opera; tall, pretty and eager |
Rowan nursery-maid to the Woodbridge cousins |
soprano | Elisabeth Parry |
| Anne Dougall has recently left school and works at the bank; friends with Elisabeth Parrish |
Juliet Brook, aged 14 one of the children at Iken Hall |
soprano | Anne Sharp Anne Sharp Anne Sharp is a Scottish coloratura soprano particularly associated with the operas of Benjamin Britten.-Background and education:... |
| Max Westleton, office boy and odd job lad at Leiston Printing Works |
Clem Black Bob's son and assistant and Alfred gardener at Iken Hall |
tenor | Max Worthley |
| The Conductor organist at the local church |
conductor | Norman del Mar Norman Del Mar Norman Del Mar CBE was a British conductor, horn player, and biographer. As a conductor, he specialized in the music of late romantic composers; including Edward Elgar, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss. He left a great legacy of recordings of British music, in particular Elgar, Vaughan Williams,... |
|
CHILDREN |
|||
| Johnnie Chaffinch, aged 15 good at maths; knows all about fuses and circuits |
Johnny Crome, aged 15 one of the Woodbridge cousins |
treble | Peter Cousins |
| Tina Chaffinch, aged 9 small, quiet and timid |
Tina Crome, aged 8 one of the Woodbridge cousins |
treble | Mavis Gardiner |
| Gay Denton, aged 13 home from school for the holidays |
Gay Brook, aged 13 one of the children at Iken Hall |
treble | Bruce Hines |
| Sophie Stevenson, aged 11 cheerful girl with a big smile |
Sophie Brook, aged 10 one of the children at Iken Hall |
treble | Monica Garrod |
| Sammy Fisher, aged 8 choirboy at church; one of Miss Parrish's juniors |
Sam ("Sammy") Sparrow, aged 8 Black Bob's new sweep boy |
treble | John Moules |
| Hugh Lark, aged 8 also a choirboy and a junior |
Hugh ("Hughie") Crome, aged 8 Tina's twin |
treble | Ralph Canham |
The part of the "small, quiet and timid" 8-year-old Tina was understudied for the first performance by future Bond Girl
Bond girl
A Bond girl is a character or actress portraying a love interest, of James Bond in a film, novel, or video game. They occasionally have names that are double entendres or puns, such as "Pussy Galore", "Plenty O'Toole", "Xenia Onatopp", or "Holly Goodhead"...
Shirley Eaton
Shirley Eaton
Shirley Eaton is an English actress.Eaton appeared regularly in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and achieved notability for her performance as Bond Girl Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger...
, then aged twelve. She took over the part the following year for the television broadcast.
Synopsis
- Time: 1810
While their mother is absent "seeing papa off to join his ship", the three Brook children of Iken Hall have been playing host to their three Crome cousins, together with their nursery-maid. The visit is due to end the following day.
Scene 1
The first Audience Song is sung before the curtain rises to reveal the children's nursery at Iken Hall, which Rowan the nursery-maid is covering in dust-sheets in preparation for a visit from the chimney-sweeps. Miss Baggot, the elderly sharp-tongued housekeeper, escorts in Black Bob, the master-sweep, and his son Clem, "a brutal apprentice as black as his dad". Last of all Sam trails in, a small white figure struggling with an armful of buckets and rope. While Miss Baggot gives the instructions, Rowan is shocked by the wretchedness of the little boy, and begs the sweeps not to send him up the chimney. The sweeps mock her and pallid white Sammy as they drive him up his first chimney, to be transformed into a black, "chimbley-stack" boy. Rowan runs from the room in distress, and the sweeps leave to prepare the next chimney.The door opens and Juliet enters furtively, before climbing into an armchair and covering herself with a dust-sheet. The children are playing hide-and-seek, apparently the version known as sardines
Sardines (game)
Sardines is the name of numerous children's games. All have in common an aspect where the players are required to lie side by side . The two most common versions of sardines are variations of hide-and-seek and knick-knocking....
. Jonny finds Juliet and joins her in her hiding-place, but their game is interrupted by a cry of distress from Sammy, who has become stuck in the chimney. The commotion attracts the other four children, and they succeed in extricating the sweep-boy from his predicament while singing the shanty Pull the rope gently. Like Rowan, the children are horrified by Sammy's condition. They decide to hide him in the nursery while faking up a line of footprints to make it seem as if he has escaped through the window.
Miss Baggott and Rowan return with the sweeps, and are thoroughly taken in by the ruse. Black Bob and Clem run off in search of Sammy, pursued by Miss Baggott insisting that they get on with the job. Thinking herself alone, Rowan sings an aria (Run, poor sweep-boy) expressing her wish that she could help Sam escape. Overhearing this, the children gradually emerge from under the dust-sheets and set about persuading her to help them get Sam away from the sweeps. A decision is taken to feed him and bath him, and the curtain falls on the preparations for the bath.
Scene 2
The second Audience Song is again sung to a closed curtain, vividly describing the splashing and scrubbing which is happening out of sight. The curtain rises to reveal Sam, "whiter than swans as they fly", and Juliet begins to question him about his background. He reveals that his father is a waggoner who broke his hip so that he couldn't work, and Sammy was sold into an apprenticeship with the sweeps because "there wasn't anyting to eat". Sammy stoically declares that it was time he began work, as "I shall be nine next birthday", and the wealthy children become even more dismayed. Sam reveals that his home is in the village of Little Glemham, which by coincidence is also Rowan's home.Jonny conceives the plan of smuggling Sam into his travelling-trunk so that he can be carried out of the house unseen when the Crome children leave the following day. Rowan agrees, just as Miss Baggott returns in a furious rage over her treatment by the sweeps, who have accused her of hiding their apprentice. There is a mad scramble to hide Sammy and look as innocent and natural as possible as Miss Baggott enters the room. At the spectacle of the grubby, sooty, untidy state of the nursery, the housekeeper's ire is redirected towards the children. Seeing toys lying around she approaches the toy-cupboard where Sammy is hiding, reaching for the door-handle. In desperation Juliet fakes a fainting fit, which has the desired effect. Everyone fusses around Juliet, who is eventually carried to her bedroom, as Jonny reassures Sam and urges him to "sit tight, and tomorrow you're a free man."
Scene 3
The third Audience Song evokes the passing of the night. For this, the audience is divided into four groups, taking the parts of owls, herons, turtle-doves and chaffinches engaging in a singing competition. The curtain rises to reveal Juliet sitting in her dressing-gown, as Rowan enters carrying a tray with her breakfast. They call Sammy out of the cupboard and feed him Juliet's breakfast, while Juliet sings a charming farewell aria. Sammy tries to refuse the money Juliet gives him, but she is insistent. The other children enter, the three Cromes ready to leave for home. They pack Sammy into Jonny's trunk, with yet more food, only to run into a problem when it proves to be too heavy for Tom the coachman and Alfred the gardener to lift. The children and Rowan break into the growing argument between Miss Baggot and the men, and offer to help lift the trunk. The extra manpower does the trick, and Juliet, Gay and Sophie watch from the window as it is loaded into the coach taking Jonny and the twins away.As soon as the coach has notionally departed, the entire cast returns to the stage for the Coaching Song. They form a tableau with a rocking-horse and chairs arranged to form a coach, and sing together with the audience, describing Sammy's journey to safety and freedom.
Musical numbers
| Number | Title | Cast |
|---|---|---|
| I | The Sweep's Song, Audience Song I. | Audience, later Clem and Bob |
| II | Quartet "Sweep the chimney!" | Miss Baggott, Rowan, Clem and Bob |
| III | Duet "Now the little white boy" | Clem and Bob |
| IIIa | Hide and Seek. "Juliet! Juliet!" | The Children |
| IV | Shanty "Pull the rope gently" | The Children |
| V | Ensemble "Is he wounded?" | Sam and the Children |
| VI | Marching Song | The Children, later Miss Baggott, Bob and Clem |
| VII | Trio | Miss Baggott, Bob and Clem |
| VIII | Aria "Run the poor sweep boy" | Rowan and later the Children |
| IX | Sammy's Bath, Audience Song II | Audience, later Rowan and the Children |
| X | Ensemble "O why do you weep?" | Sam, Rowan and the Children |
| XI and XII | Pantomime and Scena | Miss Baggott |
| XIII | Finale "Help! Help! She's collapsed!" | Rowan, Miss Baggott and the Children |
| XIV | The Night Song, Audience Song III | Audience |
| XV | Aria "Soon the coach will carry you away" | Juliet |
| XVI | Ensemble "Morning Sammy" | Sam and the Children |
| XVII | Trio and Ensemble "Ready, Alfred?" | Alfred, Tom, Miss Baggott, later Rowan and the Children |
| XVIII | Coaching Song, Audience Song IV | Omnes and Audience |
Recordings
- conductor/juliet/rowan/sam/baggott/clem/black bob
- Del Mar/Sharp/Woolmore/Moules/Parr/Worthley/Lumsden (1949) BBC archive performance, no commercial release
- Britten/Cantelo/Vyvyan/Hemmings/Thomas/Pears/Anthony (1956), Decca
- Kares/Pokorná/Sormová/Prusek/Mixová/Procházka/Hanus (1975, in Czech), Supraphon
- Ledger/Benson/Wells/Monck/Begg/Tear/Lloyd (1977), HMV
- Juzeau/Vautier/Kapeluche/Soula?/Murano/Battedou/Legendre (1979, in French), Adès
- Halsey/Milne/Flowers/Yeo/Palmer/Graham-Hall/Richardson (1996, Weigl movie), Arthaus
Pictures of the first production, 1949 Aldeburgh Festival
- Let's Make an Opera! play, rehearsing the audience (Getty Images)
- Let's Make an Opera! play, Norman Del Mar rehearsing the audience in the "Night Song" (Getty Images)
- http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.arenapal.com/files/photographers/spotlight/boosey_and_hawkes/the_little_sweep_let_s_make_an_opera_1049066s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.arenapal.com/files/photographers/spotlight/boosey_and_hawkes.html&usg=__1D70bRfvqkz60OvVjfdxDmJKyXw=&h=120&w=120&sz=18&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=wPLadO9AsrxGeM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=96&ei=YDBwTZrBINGyhAeautUx&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Let%2527s%2BMake%2Ban%2BOpera%2522%2Barenapal%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D632%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=180&vpy=146&dur=1819&hovh=96&hovw=96&tx=80&ty=42&oei=YDBwTZrBINGyhAeautUx&page=1&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0The Little Sweep beginning of scene 1, the sweeps arrive at Iken Hall] (Boosey and Hawkes / ArenaPAL : Performing Arts Image Library)
- The Little Sweep later in scene 1, freeing Sammy from the chimney (This picture is wrongly dated, being from the 1949 production not the 1951 revival.) (Boosey and Hawkes)
- The Little Sweep beginning of scene 2, Sammy's bath (Getty Images)
- The Little Sweep scene 3, trying to lift the trunk (Getty Images)
- http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.arenapal.com/files/photographers/spotlight/boosey_and_hawkes/the_little_sweep_let_s_make_an_opera_1049060s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.arenapal.com/files/photographers/spotlight/boosey_and_hawkes.html&usg=__PEn9UwWBWXJ6izDb8MTA-1Xnp_E=&h=120&w=120&sz=18&hl=en&start=0&zoom=1&tbnid=1k3XUx83aXB2WM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=96&ei=hRVwTcCSKpWu4Aa0p8TXDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522Let%2527s%2BMake%2Ban%2BOpera%2522%2Barenapal%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D632%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=384&oei=_hNwTdaPBoW6hAfz4tgu&page=1&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0&tx=37&ty=41The Little Sweep scene 3, final tableau] (Boosey and Hawkes / ArenaPAL : Performing Arts Image Library)
