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2025
Our next production- 9 AprilHMS Pinafore
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12 April
MatineeHMS Pinafore
Did you know?
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1996 saw the fourth time the Society had produced "Patience".
The production boasted some "clever direction and outstandingly original ideas" (said the Batley News). It included parading three of the male leads as a parody of Sgt Pepper's band.
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"Patience" was first performed at the Opera Comique, London, on April 23, 1881. It moved to the 1292-seat Savoy Theatre on October 10, 1881, where it was the first theatrical production in the world to be lit entirely by electric light. This was the sixth operatic collaboration of the fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan.
From Gilbert's Bab Ballads:
"The Magnet and the Churn"
Producer/Director: David Fletcher
Musical Director: Gordon Clayton
Cast
| Officers of the Dragoon Guards | |
| Colonel Calverley: | Chris Sowerby |
| Major Murgatroyd: | Keith Horner |
| Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable: | Ian Townend |
| Reginald Bunthorne: (a fleshly poet): | Malcolm Parkinson |
| Archibald Grosvenor: (an idyllic poet): | Robert Thurman |
| Mr Bunthorne's Solicitor: | Nigel Beverley |
| Rapturous Maidens | |
| The Lady Angela: | Stephanie Roe |
| The Lady Saphir: | Alison Sowerby |
| The Lady Ella: | Judith Gill |
| The Lady Jane: | Joan Baldwin |
| Patience : (A Dairy Maid): | Carol Parkinson |
Ladies Of The Chorus:
Marie Bullock, Janice Child, Rachel Clegg, Margaret Hanson, Natalie Hanson, Elaine Mantle, Dina Powell, Sue Ralph, Sally Roberts, Debbie Stringer, Kathryn Thurman, & Dorothy Whitworth.
Gentlemen Of The Chorus:
John Berry, Ian Castle, Paul Child, David Hirst & Stephen Roe.
