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, 1877 |
Savoy Theatre, 1884 |
Savoy Theatre, 1898 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Marmaduke | Richard Temple | Richard Temple | Jones Hewson |
| Alexis | George Bentham | Durward Lely | Robert Evett |
| Dr. Daly | Rutland Barrington | Rutland Barrington | Henry Lytton |
| Notary | Fred Clifton | William Lugg | Leonard Russell |
| J. W. Wells | George Grossmith | George Grossmith | Walter Passmore |
| Lady Sangazure | Mrs. Howard Paul | Rosina Brandram | Rosina Brandram |
| Aline | Alice May | Leonora Braham | Ruth Vincent |
| Mrs. Partlet | Harriett Everard | Ada Doree | Ethel McAlpine |
| Constance | Giulia Warwick | Jessie Bond | Emmie Owen |
| Oldest Inhabitant | Frank Thornton1 | — | — |
| Role | D'Oyly Carte Tour 1919 |
D'Oyly Carte Tour 1930 |
D'Oyly Carte Tour 1939 |
D'Oyly Carte Tour 1971 |
D'Oyly Carte Tour 1982 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Marmaduke | Frederick Hobbs | Darrell Fancourt | Darrell Fancourt | John Ayldon | Clive Harre |
| Alexis | Derek Oldham | Charles Goulding | John Dean | Ralph Mason | Meston Reid |
| Dr. Daly | Leo Sheffield | Leslie Rands | Leslie Rands | Kenneth Sandford | Kenneth Sandford |
| Notary | George Sinclair | Joseph Griffin | Richard Walker | John Broad | Bruce Graham |
| J. W. Wells | Henry Lytton | Henry Lytton | Martyn Green | John Reed | James Conroy-Ward |
| Lady Sangazure | Bertha Lewis | Bertha Lewis | Evelyn Gardiner | Lyndsie Holland | Patricia Leonard |
| Aline | Elsie Griffin | Winifred Lawson | Margery Abbott | Julia Goss | Pamela Field |
| Mrs. Partlet | Anna Bethell | Anna Bethell | Anna Bethell | Peggy Ann Jones | Beti Lloyd-Jones |
| Constance | Catherine Ferguson | Marjorie Eyre | Marjorie Eyre | Linda Anne Hutchison | Lorraine Daniels |
1This role is not credited in revivals, which used a revised libretto.
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