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Iolanthe
• Barnes Church Hall
• May 1947 Past Productions

Overview

Iolanthe, May 1947 Iolanthe, or The Peer and the Peri, is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

It is one of the Savoy Operas and the seventh collaboration of the fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan.

It was first produced in London at the Savoy Theatre, on 25 November 1882, three days after Patience closed, and ran for 398 performances.

This was the first production staged post World War Two.

The Cast
The Lord Chancellor Horace J Morris
Earl of Mount Ararat John Webster
Earl Tolloller Stanley Staplehurst
Private Willis Eric Guttridge
Strephon Geoffrey Needs
Queen of the Fairies Ivey Ellis
Iolanthe Edna Middleton
Celia Marion Ranson
Leila Norah Thornton
Fleta Gaby Walker
The Lord Chancellor's Page Geoffrey Bowyer
Phyllis Marjorie Skuffham

Chorus of Fairies Dukes Marquises Viscounts & Barons:
Doreen Beresford, Marjorie Dougherty, Frances Glasgow, Mary Grindley, Irene Hamblin, Dorothy Hill, Barbara Hughes, Hilda Iliff, Eva King, Irene Newstead, Joan Pursey, Eileen Skuffham, Joan Taylor, Barbara Webster

Leonard Dearmer, Cyril Ellis, Wilfred Fielden, Victor Foord, Willian Hill, Reginald Humby, Thomas Newman, John Pursey, John Smith, Micky Wheeler

The Production Team
Musical Director Edith Hays
Produced by Cecile Stanford & H J Morris
 
   
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