H.M.S. Pinafore & Trial by Jury

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April 1936

Chorus & Orchestra under the Direction of – Miss Edith Hays ARCM

The Operas Produced by – Mr & Mrs H Enes Blackmore

Trial by Jury is a comic opera in one act, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. Initially it was played last on a triple bill; the other two works on opening night were Jacques Offenbach’s La Périchole and Charles Collette’s one-act farce Cryptoconchoidsyphonostomata, which was immediately thereafter replaced with another work.

H.M.S. Pinafore, or The Lass that Loved a Sailor, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas, and the first big hit by Gilbert and Sullivan. This work was Gilbert and Sullivan’s fourth operatic collaboration.

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CAST

The Learned Judge – John C Broad

The Plaintiff – Kathleen Bellamy

The Defendant – Charles Long

Counsel for the Plaintiff – Thomas Edgar

Usher – Edward Bellamy

Foreman of the Jury – John Kirkby

Associate – John Webster

First Bridesmaid – Dorothy Branson

Chorus of Bridesmaids, Jurymen & Spectators – Alice Anderson, Camilla Bowmer, May Broad, Nora Butler, Kathleen Carpenter, Tris Edgar, Peggy Frewin, Connie Grange, Daphne Grange, Irene Hamblin, Vera Kirk, Hilda Kirkby, Doris Mayo, Lilian Parry, Eileen Reynolds, Eileen Skuffham, Dorothy Wilson, Trevor Adams, Bob Bailey, Owen Bartlett, Gordon Broad, Dick Frost, Eric Guttridge, W H Bailey, Ernest Harris, B J Mitchell, Louis Mayo, Austin Rowe

CREW

Scenery by – Cape of Chiswick

Costumes by – B J Simmons & Co