Events Diary
2025
Our next production- 9 AprilHMS Pinafore
- 10 AprilHMS Pinafore
- 11 AprilHMS Pinafore
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12 April
MatineeHMS Pinafore
Did you know?
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1985 saw the third time the Society had produced "Patience".
G&S opera given sparkle. So said the Batley News of our 1985 production of "Patience". Read the review.
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"Patience" included a number of historical references to people and places from the 18th and 19th century. Includes Paddington Pollaky (Ignatious Paul Pollaky) an Hungarian who settled in Paddington Green in the 1850's and became famous as a private detective. Some speculation that he was the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.
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From Gilbert's Bab Ballads:
"When I first put this uniform on"
Producer/Director : John Broadbent
Musical Director : James Laidlaw
Cast
| Officers of the Dragoon Guard | |
| Colonel Calverley: | Lyndon Wilkinson |
| Major Murgatroyd : | Keith Horner |
| Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable: | Steven Greenwood |
| Reginald Bunthorne: (a fleshly poet): | Malcolm Parkinson |
| Archibald Grosvenor : (an idyllic poet): | Stephen Simpson |
| Rapturous Maidens | |
| The Lady Angela: | Sandra Chapman |
| The Lady Saphir: | Alison Sowerby |
| The Lady Ella: | Margaret Croft |
| The Lady Jane: | Margaret Lister |
| Patience : (A Dairy Maid): | Stephanie Roe |
Rapturous Maidens:
Carol Aveyard, Marilyn Cooper, Rachel Croft, Caroline Ellis, Judith Gill, Jean Greenwood, Jane Harmer, Jayne Lindley, Karen Morton, Sally Roberts, Susan Spreckley,, Verity Thomas, Dorothy Whitworth
Dragoon Guards:
Keith Cooper, Frank Croft, Philip Haley, Joh Hardy, Peter Newell, Vernon Newman, Chris Sowerby, Paul Taylor, Robert Thurman, Ian Townend, John Whitehead
