Ruddigore

Church Hall, Barnes

December 1949

Producer – Patrick Scott
Musical Director – Bernard Osborne

Ruddigore, or The Witch’s Curse, 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 tenth of fourteen comic operas written together by Gilbert and Sullivan.

It was first performed by the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre in London on 22 January 1887.

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CAST

Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd – Edward Bellamy
Richard Dauntless – Leslie Woollett
Sir Despard Murgatroyd – Geoffrey Needs
Old Adam Goodheart – William Hill
Rose Maybud – Winifred Barman
Mad Margaret – Marjorie Skkuffham
Dame Hannah – Elizabeth Boorman
Zorah – Joy Higgs
Ruth – Lotta Mawhinney
First Ghost – Gerald Johnson
Second Ghost – Ian Worth
Third ghost – John Pursey
Forth Ghost & Sir Roderick Murgatroyd – John Webster
Chorus of Professional Bridesmaids, Officers, Ancestors & Villagers – Edith Anscombe, Jane Ayers, Doreen Beresford, Marjorie Doughty, Georgina Gray, Dorothy Hill, Eveleen Horsburgh, Barbara Hughes, Idena Johnson, Doris Kemp, Einna Mulligan, Elizabeth Newman, Irene Newstead, Kay Peart, Hilda Richards, Beryl Stare, Norah Thornton, Hilda Tyler, Barbara Webster, Arthur Andrews, Eric Brooking, Cherry Bryant, Peter Haines, George Horsburgh, Bernard Jago, Bob Kirkby, Vincent Mulligan, George Tydeman

CREW

Stage Manager – Everett Reeve
House Manager – Vincent Mulligan
Box Office – Mrs E G King