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 | Opera Comique 1881 |
Standard Theatre 1881 |
Savoy Theatre 1900 |
Savoy Theatre 1907 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colonel | Richard Temple | William T. Carleton | Jones Hewson | Frank Wilson |
| Major | Frank Thornton | Arthur Wilkinson | W. H. Leon | Richard Andean |
| Duke | Durward Lely | Llewellyn Cadwaladr | Robert Evett | Harold Wilde |
| Bunthorne | George Grossmith | J. H. Ryley | Walter Passmore | Charles H. Workman |
| Grosvenor | Rutland Barrington | James Barton Key | Henry Lytton | John Clulow |
| Solicitor | George Bowley | William White | H. Carlyle Pritchard | Ronald Greene |
| Angela | Jessie Bond | Alice Burville | Blanche Gaston-Murray | Jessie Rose |
| Saphir | Julia Gwynne | Rose Chapelle | Lulu Evans | Marie Wilson |
| Ella | May Fortescue | Alma Stuart Stanley | Agnes Fraser | Ruby Gray |
| Jane | Alice Barnett | Augusta Roche | Rosina Brandram | Louie René |
| Patience | Leonora Braham | Carrie Burton | Isabel Jay | Clara Dow |
| Role | D'Oyly Carte 1915 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1925 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1935 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1945 Tour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colonel | Frederick Hobbs | Darrell Fancourt | Darrell Fancourt | Darrell Fancourt |
| Major | Allen Morris | Martyn Green | Frank Steward | C. William Morgan |
| Duke | Dewey Gibson | Charles Goulding | John Dean | Herbert Garry |
| Bunthorne | Henry Lytton | Henry Lytton | Martyn Green | Grahame Clifford |
| Grosvenor | Leicester Tunks | Henry Millidge | Leslie Rands | Leslie Rands |
| Solicitor | E. A. Cotton | Alex Sheahan | W. F. Hodgkins | Ernest Dale |
| Angela | Nellie Briercliffe | Aileen Davies | Marjorie Eyre | Marjorie Eyre |
| Saphir | Ella Milne | Beatrice Elburn | Elizabeth Nickell-Lean | Doreen Binnion |
| Ella | Phyllis Smith | Irene Hill | Margery Abbott | Rosalie Dyer |
| Jane | Bertha Lewis | Bertha Lewis | Dorothy Gill | Ella Halman |
| Patience | Elsie McDermid | Winifred Lawson | Doreen Denny | Margery Abbott |
| Role | D'Oyly Carte 1950 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1957 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1965 Tour |
D'Oyly Carte 1975 Tour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colonel | Darrell Fancourt | Donald Adams | Donald Adams | John Ayldon |
| Major | Peter Pratt | John Reed | Alfred Oldridge | James Conroy-Ward |
| Duke | Leonard Osborn | Leonard Osborn | Philip Potter | Meston Reid |
| Bunthorne | Martyn Green | Peter Pratt | John Reed | John Reed |
| Grosvenor | Alan Styler | Arthur Richards | Kenneth Sandford | Kenneth Sandford |
| Solicitor | Ernest Dale | Wilfred Stelfox | Jon Ellison | Jon Ellison |
| Angela | Joan Gillingham | Beryl Dixon | Peggy Ann Jones | Judi Merri |
| Saphir | Joyce Wright | Elizabeth Howarth | Pauline Wales | Patricia Leonard |
| Ella | Muriel Harding | Jean Hindmarsh | Valerie Masterson | Rosalind Griffiths |
| Jane | Ella Halman | Ann Drummond-Grant | Christene Palmer | Lyndsie Holland |
| Patience | Margaret Mitchell | Cynthia Morey | Ann Hood | Pamela Field |
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