Ionlanthe
Church Hall, Barnes
9th-13th December 1952
Musical Director – Norah Richardson LTCL
Producer – Cyril Corker
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.
The Programme for this production is the first at half quarto size and consisted of 12 pages principally of local ads. It is also the first to accredit NODA affiliation.
In aid of The King George VI Memorial Fund.
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CAST
Earl Tolloller – Tony Ayers
The Lord Chancellor – Edward Bellamy
Lord Chancellor’s Attendant – Geoffrey Bishop
Earl of Mountararat – Bernard Mitchell
Private Willis – Geoffrey Needs
Celia – Joan Noyes
Strephon – Brian Orton
Phyllis – Joan Partington
Iolanthe – Isobel Shannon
Queen of the Fairies – Marjorie Skuffham
Fleta – Beryl Smallwood
Leila – Barbara Webster
Chorus of Dukes, Marquises, Earls, Viscounts, Barons and Fairies – Arthur Andrews, June Ayers, Richard Beckley, Bernard C Jago, Joy Catford, Marjorie Doughty, Georgina Gray, Keith Gray, Oliver Greenwood, Peter Haines, Val Haynes, Eveleen Horsburgh, Odette Jobin, David Johnson, Idena Johnson, Marcus Johnson, Bob Kirkby, Lotta Mawhinney, Eena Mulligan, Vincent Mulligan, Elizabeth Rowe, Beryl Stare, Norah Thornton, Richard Stringer, George Tydeman, John Webster, Ian Worth
CREW
Stage Manager – Everett Reeve
