Batley G&S | The Sorcerer (2008)

Events Diary

2024For you diary:
24-27 April Ruddigore

Did You Know?

"The Sorcerer" was our 60th Show and the 5th time we have produced the operetta.

The opera opened on 17 November 1877 at the Opera Comique in London, where it ran for 178 performances. It was considered a success by the standards of that time and encouraged the collaborators to write their next opera, H.M.S. Pinafore.
The Sorcerer has made its way into popular culture. Isaac Asimov wrote a short story, "The Up-To-Date Sorcerer", an homage to the opera consisting largely of a series of puns on phrases from it.
From Gilbert's Bab Ballads
Eheu Fugaces.
(The air is charged with amatory numbers)

Click to see
the programme

Producer/Director : Graham Weston
Musical Director : David Hall

Cast

Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre (an elderly baronet):	Richard Buxton
Alexis (of the Grenadier Guards, his son):	Steven Greenwood
Dr Daly (Vicar of Ploverleigh):	Robert Thurman
The Notary:	Alan Evans
John Wellington Wells(of JW Wells & Co):	Malcolm Parkinson
Lady Sangazure (A Lady of Ancient Lineage):	Stephanie Roe
Aline (her daughter betrothed to Alexis):	Carol Parkinson
Mrs Partlet (a Pew Opener):	Penny McGoverin
Constance (her daughter):	Helen Fox
Hercules (Mr Wells' Page):	Peter Sugden

Chorus of Villagers:
Rita Jno-Baptiste, Jean Greenwood, Lyndsey Hall, Margaret Hanson, Antonia McGoverin, Deirdre O'Shea, Lisa O'Shea, Catherine Roberts, Fiona Baker, Jennifer Day, Tracey Hook, Sally Roberts, Debbie Stringer, Marie Sugden, Kathryn Thurman
AJ Jno-Baptiste, Richard Brook, Tony Johnson, Steve Roe, Ian Townend, Andrew Stopford, Peter Sugden, Kelvin Waites.