Broadway Pirates

Richmond Theatre

1st-6th June 1987

Producer – Jessica Joyce

Musical Director – Michaele Carver

First performed in the late 1980s, the Broadway version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s operetta The Pirates of Penzance was the brain¬child of producer Joseph Papp.

Re-orchestrated for a band, and with the characters being given an up-beat facelift for the 20th century, the result achieved immediate success. Its plot however follows the traditional fore-runner.

Publicity photos were taken in front of The Katherine May in Southwark by kind permission of The Maritime Trust.

CAST

Frederick – Peter Barnett

Pirate King – Roger Roseboom

Samuel – uncredited

Ruth – Sonya Raymond

Major General – Richard Matthiae

Mabel – Lesley Cox

Edith – Mandy Stenhouse

Kate – Claire Walker

Isobel – Julie Thomas

Victoria – Janet Turner / Bob Salter

Bertha – Rachel Marks

Prudence – Kate Stevens

Rosie – Merian Ganjou

Polly – Carol Brown

Fanny – Anne Campbell

Lucy – Suzanne Yeates

Hannah – Francis Warhurst

Sergeant of Police – Terry Saunders

Cabin Boys – Debbie Harkness & Margaret Boughton

Pirates – Iain Calder, david Cole, Mark Holliday, Peter Mumford, Ron Pharo, John Powter, Jeff Raggett, Kit Stratfull, Peter Vaughan, Andy Yeates

Pirates/Policemen – John Barker, John Boult, John McElwee, Jeremy Newton, Doug Roberts, Robert Salter, David Sewell

Townspeople – Pauline Beament, Mary Fraser, Marion McLaren, Terry Parsons, Louise Stevenson, Barbara Thomas, Lynne Tompkins

CREW

Producer’s Assistant – Francis Warhurst

Designer – David Casey

Stage Manager – John Mitchell

Deputy Stage Manager – Barbara Mitchell

Production Liaison – Jeremy Newton

Technical Manager – Paul Viney

Rehearsal Pianists – Dennis Gomm

Prompt – Jackie Pearson

Box Office – Anne Campbell

Properties Buyer – Peter Sporle

Costumes made by – Alan Scott Costumes

Sets constructed by – BROS Workshop

Lighting Designer – Peter Willis

Sound – Richard Brooker

Assistant Stage Managers – Trevor Marland, Heather Mitchell

Publicity – Andrew Macbean

Publicity photography – Kevin O’Neill

Rostra – Phil Parsons

Rehearsal Pianist – Terry Saunders, Michael Carver

Photo credit: Kevin O’Neill