Iolanthe

Church Hall, Barnes

May 1947

Musical Director – Edith Hays

Produced by – Cecile Stanford, H J Morris

Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri, is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas and the seventh collaboration of the fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan. It was first produced in London at the Savoy Theatre, on 25 November 1882, three days after Patience closed, and ran for 398 performances. This was the first production staged post World War Two.

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CAST

The Lord Chancellor – Horace J Morris

Earl of Mount Ararat – John Webster

Earl Tolloller – Stanley Staplehurst

Private Willis – Eric Guttridge

Strephon – Geoffrey Needs

Queen of the Fairies – Ivey Ellis

Iolanthe – Edna Middleton

Celia – Marion Ranson

Leila – Norah Thornton

Fleta – Gaby Walker

The Lord Chancellor’s Page – Geoffrey Bowyer

Phyllis – Marjorie Skuffham

Chorus of Fairies Dukes Marquises Viscounts & Barons – Doreen Beresford, Marjorie Dougherty, Frances Glasgow, Mary Grindley, Irene Hamblin, Dorothy Hill, Barbara Hughes, Hilda Iliff, Eva King, Irene Newstead, Joan Pursey, Eileen Skuffham, Joan Taylor, Barbara Webster, Leonard Dearmer, Cyril Ellis, Wilfred Fielden, Victor Foord, Willian Hill, Reginald Humby, Thomas Newman, John Pursey, John Smith, Micky Wheeler