DAMSELS AND DRAGONS:
an evening with Gilbert's women
Gilbert & Sullivan supper show.
Saturday 26th March 2011| Cast and credits | Program |
Program
| OPENING CHORUS: "Climbing over rocky mountains" | Ensemble |
| THE SORCERER First Performance: Opéra Comique, 17 November 1878 | |
| Recitative "Constance, my daughter..." | Mrs Partlet – Leila Fetter Constance – Rosemary Lohmann Dr Daly – Chris McNee |
| HMS PINAFORE First Performance: Opéra Comique, 25 May 1878 | |
| "I’m called Little Buttercup" | Buttercup – Leila Fetter |
| "Sorry her lot" | Josephine – Alison Knight |
| "Fair moon to thee I sing" | Captain Corcoran – Ken Smith |
| "The hours creep on apace" | Josephine – Leith Dudfield |
| "Never mind the why and wherefore" | Josephine – Alison Knight Captain Corcoran – Ken Smith Sir Joseph Porter – Chris McNee |
| "A many years ago" | Buttercup – Leila Fetter & Ensemble |
| PIRATES OF PENZANCE First Performance: Opéra Comique, 3 April 1880 | |
| "When Frederic was a little lad" | Ruth – Rachel Parsons |
| "Climbing over rocky mountains" | Ensemble & Damsels: Edith – Alison Knight Kate – Gemma Dashwood lsabel – Kayelle Wiltshire |
| ACT II | |
| PATIENCE First Performance: Opéra Comique, 23 February 1881 | |
| "Twenty lovesick maidens we" | Ensemble & Lady Ella – Lorna Gamble Lady Angela – Denise Manley Lady Saphir – Leith Dudfield Lady Jane – Patricia Whitbread |
| "l cannot tell what this love may be" | Patience – Rosemary Lohmann |
| "In a doleful train" | Ensemble |
| "Sad is that woman’s lot" | Lady Jane – Patricia Whitbread |
| "Love is a plaintive song" | Patience – Rosemary Lohmann |
| IOLANTHE First Performance: Savoy Theatre, 25November 1882 | |
| "The Law is the true embodiment" | Lord Chancellor – Peter Smith |
| "To say she is his mother..." | Ensemble |
| "We are dainty little fairies" | Ensemble & Celia – Leith Dudfield Leila – Leila Fetter Fleta – Kayelle Wiltshire Fairy Queen – Lorna Gamble |
| "My Lord, a suppliant at your feet . . ." | lolanthe – Rachel Parsons |
| PRINCESS IDA First Performance: Savoy Theatre, 5 January 1882 | |
| "Towards the empyrean heights" | Ensemble & Lady Psyche – Denise Manley Melissa – Laura Murdoch Sacharissa – Leith Dudfield |
| "Minerva" | Princess lda – Judith Swanson |
| "I’m sure I'm no ascetic" | King Gama – Peter Smith |
| "And thus to empyrean heights" | Ensemble |
| ACT III | |
| THE MIKADO First performance: Savoy Theatre, 14 March 1885 | |
| "Three little maids from school" | Yum Yum – Madeleine Rowland Peep Bo – Leith Dudfield Pitti Sing – Denise Manley & Ensemble |
| "The sun whose rays" | Yum Yum – Madeleine Rowland |
| "He shivered and shook" | Pitti sing – Denise Manrey & Ensemble |
| "Hearts do not break" | Katisha – Leita Fetter |
| RUDDIGORE First Performance: Savoy Theatre, 22 January 1887 | |
| "lf somebody there chanced" | Rose Maybud – Rosemary Lohmann |
| THE YEOMAN OF THE GUARD First Performance: Savoy Theatre, 3 October 1888 | |
| "When a maiden loves" | Phoebe – Gemma Dashwood |
| "When our gallant Norman foes" | Dame Carruthers – Janene Broere & Ensemble |
| THE GONDOLIERS First Performance: Savoy Theatre, 7 December 1889 | |
| "When a merry maiden marries" | Tessa – Alison Knight |
| "Kind sir, you cannot have the heart', | Gianetta – Madeleine Rowland |
| "Then one of us will be a queen" | Tessa – Alison Knight Gianetra – Madeleine Rowland Marco – Kenneth Goodge Giuseppe – Chris McNee |
| "Take a pair of sparkling eyes" | Marco – Kenneth Goodge |
| "On the day that I was wedded" | Duchess of Plaza Toro – Janene Broere |