Events Diary
2025
Our next production- 9 AprilHMS Pinafore
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12 April
MatineeHMS Pinafore
Did you know?
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2006 saw the fifth time the Society had produced "Patience".
- "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.
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From Gilbert's Bab Ballads:
"The Magnet and the Churn"
Producer/Director : Graham Weston
Musical Director : Colin Akers
Cast
| Colonel Calverley: | Robert Thurman |
| Major Murgatroyd : | Mike Whitwam |
| Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable: | Steven Greenwood |
| Reginald Bunthorne : (a fleshly poet) | Malcolm Parkinson |
| Archibald Grosvenor : (an idyllic poet) | John Foster |
| Mr Bunthorne's Solicitor: | Nigel Beverley |
| -- Rapturous Maidens -- | |
| The Lady Angela: | Penny McGoverin |
| The Lady Saphir: | Natalie Garfield-Fletcher |
| The Lady Ella: | Rita Jno-Baptiste |
| The Lady Jane: | Stephanie Roe |
| Patience : (A Dairy Maid) | Antonia Jno-Baptiste |
Chorus of Rapturous Maidens & Officers of Dragoon Guards:
Jean Greenwood, Lyndsey Hanson, Margaret Hanson, Kath Whitwam, Sally Roberts, Debbie Stringer, Marie Sugden, Kathryn Thurman, Tony Johnson, Steve Roe, Ian Townend, Keith Horner, Andrew Stopford, Peter Sugden.
