Historical Casting
The following tables show the casts of the principal original productions and D'Oyly Carte Opera Company touring repertory at various times through to the company's 1982 closure:
| Role | Savoy Theatre 1887 |
Fifth Avenue 1887 |
D'Oyly Carte 1920 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1930 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1939 Tour |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Oakapple | George Grossmith | George Thorne | Henry Lytton | Henry Lytton | Martyn Green |
| Richard Dauntless | Durward Lely | Courtice Pounds | Derek Oldham | Charles Goulding | John Dean |
| Sir Despard | Rutland Barrington | Fred Billington | Leo Sheffield | Sydney Granville | Sydney Granville |
| Old Adam | Rudolph Lewis | Leo Kloss | Douglas Kirke | Leo Kloss | L. Radley Flynn |
| Sir Roderic | Richard Temple | Frederick Federici | Darrell Fancourt | Darrell Fancourt | Darrell Fancourt |
| Rose Maybud | Leonora Braham | Geraldine Ulmar | Sylvia Cecil | Sylvia Cecil | Margery Abbott |
| Mad Margaret | Jessie Bond | Kate Forster | Catherine Ferguson | Nellie Briercliffe | Marjorie Eyre |
| Dame Hannah | Rosina Brandram | Elsie Cameron | Bertha Lewis | Bertha Lewis | Evelyn Gardiner |
| Zorah | Josephine Findlay | Aida Jenoure | Marion Brignal | Sybil Gordon | Marjorie Flinn |
| Ruth | Miss Lindsay | Miss Murray | Mary Athol | Murielle Barron | Maysie Dean |
| Role | D'Oyly Carte 1948 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1958 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1966 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1975 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1982 Tour |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robin Oakapple | Martyn Green | Peter Pratt | John Reed | John Reed | Peter Lyon |
| Richard Dauntless | Leonard Osborn | Leonard Osborn | David Palmer | Meston Reid | Meston Reid |
| Sir Despard | Richard Watson | Kenneth Sandford | Kenneth Sandford | Kenneth Sandford | Kenneth Sandford |
| Old Adam | L. Radley Flynn | John Banks | George Cook | Jon Ellison | Michael Buchan |
| Sir Roderic | Darrell Fancourt | Donald Adams | Donald Adams | John Ayldon | John Ayldon |
| Rose Maybud | Margaret Mitchell | Jean Barrington | Ann Hood | Julia Goss | Jill Washington |
| Mad Margaret | Pauline Howard | Joyce Wright | Peggy Ann Jones | Judi Merri | Lorraine Daniels |
| Dame Hannah | Ella Halman | Ann Drummond-Grant | Christene Palmer | Lyndsie Holland | Patricia Leonard |
| Zorah | Muriel Harding | Mary Sansom | Jennifer Marks | Anne Egglestone | Jane Stanford |
| Ruth | Joyce Wright | Beryl Dixon | Pauline Wales | Marjorie Williams | Helene Witcombe |
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