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Seymour HicksThe following year, Hicks transferred with the show to Broadway for a short run and then toured in America in 1895 with his wife, where they befriended the American novelist Richard Harding Davis.
Arthur CecilCecil and Clayton yielded management at the Court to Mrs. John Wood and Arthur Chudleigh when the theatre closed in 1887, although Cecil continued acting at the theatre after it was rebuilt.
Florence St. JohnMeanwhile, in September 1897, St. John returned to the theatre in an Edwardes production of La Périchole at the Garrick Theatre.
Florence PerryEmmie Owen in -LSB- -LSB- Utopia, Limited -RSB- -RSB- Walter Passmore | Passmore in -LSB- -LSB- The Chieftain -RSB- -RSB- Perry returned to the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in London in 1895 and stayed for the next three years.
John Reed (actor)He dropped from his repertory the role of the Judge in Trial by Jury, in 1959, For that season, he also played Scaphio in Utopia, Limited and Grand Duke Rudolph in the company's concert of The Grand Duke.
Connie EdissEdiss then was sent to America to appear as Mrs. Henry Schniff in the 1907 Broadway production The Girl Behind the Counter.
Reginald SomervilleIt was premiered in 1920 by the Carl Rosa company and then presented under Somerville's management in the West End, substantially re-written to suit the light-music audience.
Arthur SullivanIn February 1883, he signed a five-year agreement with Gilbert and Carte, requiring him to produce a new comic opera on six months' notice.
Marion Hoodleft | right | 200px | Hood as Mabel in'' The Pirates of Penzance In 1880 she made her London stage debut at the Opera Comique, joining the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and creating the role of Mabel for the London production of The Pirates of Penzance.
Willie WardeIn 1891, he played the Bishop of Bovril in a burlesque entitled Joan of Arc, or the Merry Maid of Orleans (by Adrian Ross and J. L. Shine), under the management of George Edwardes.
Wilson BarrettWith his company, Barrett is credited with attracting the largest crowds of English theatregoers ever because of his success with melodrama, an instance being his production of The Silver King (1882) at the Princess's Theatre of London.
Hugh Enes BlackmoreIn 1910, he gave up playing the character of Francesco but continued to play Leonard until July, after which date he played only chorus roles for the next two years.
Lillian RussellIn 1881, she played the leading soprano role of Mabel in a burlesque of The Pirates of Penzance at Pastor's theatre.
Pauline WalesAfter Gillian Humphreys left the company in 1965, Wales also took over the roles of Kate in Pirates, Saphir in Patience, and Peep-Bo in The Mikado, First Bridesmaid in Trial by Jury, Ruth in Ruddigore, and Tessa in The Gondoliers.
Alice BarnettShe then created the role of Ruth in Gilbert and Sullivan's new opera, The Pirates of Penzance, on 31 December 1879.
George GrossmithAccordingly he was pleased when, despite his relative inexperience in legitimate theatre, he received a letter from Arthur Sullivan in November 1877 inviting him to take a part in his new piece with W. S. Gilbert : The Sorcerer.
Lennox RobinsonHis first play, The Cross Roads, was performed in the Abbey in 1909 and he became manager of the theatre towards the end of that year.
Arthur SullivanAfter The Yeomen of the Guard opened, Sullivan turned once again to Shakespeare, composing incidental music for Henry Irving's production of Macbeth (1888).
May Yoh?She debuted as May Yohé (May derived from her initials) in January 1886 with the McCaull Comic Opera Company as Dilly Dimple in'' The Little Tycoon,'' a comic opera by Willard Spencer, presented at Temple Theatre in Philadelphia and in March of that year at the Standard Theatre in New York.
Robert Wilson (tenor)In 1931, Wilson joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, at first in the chorus, understudying and occasionally performing the role of the Defendant in Trial by Jury and Ralph Rackstraw in H. M. S. Pinafore.
Arthur SullivanCarte used his profits from the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership to build the Savoy Theatre in 1881, and their joint works then became known as the Savoy operas.
Robin Shou Shou's first real dramatic role was in Forbidden Nights in 1990, with Melissa Gilbert.
Virginia BrissacLater in the fall of 1906 Brissac was once again with Roberts' company touring Eastern venues in The Strength of the Weak, a play by Alice M. Smith and Charlotte Thompson.
Leonard OsbornHe performed in amateur Gilbert and Sullivan productions and worked as a chemist before joining D'Oyly Carte as a tenor chorister in 1937 (the company was paying choristers more than his old job).
John FryattIn 1986, together with fellow ex-D'Oyly Carte artist Cynthia Morey, Fryatt wrote a Gilbert and Sullivan pantomime adaptation entitled The Sleeping Beauty of the Savoy.
James AlberyHis one-act operetta, The Spectre Knight, with music by Alfred Cellier, ran as a companion piece to Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer and then H. M. S. Pinafore at the Opera Comique in 1878 and on tour.
Alice BurvilleIn 1876, Carte transferred his production of The Duke's Daughter, an adaptation of Léon Vasseur's La Timbale d'argent, from the Royalty Theatre to the Globe Theatre, and engaged Burville to join a cast headed by Pauline Rita.
Kate SantleyIn 1880, she played in the Drury Lane pantomime Mother Goose (and the Enchanted Beauty) with Arthur Roberts, the popular music hall comedian.
Yvonne ArnaudIn 1911 she decided to try the stage instead of the concert hall and obtained an engagement at London's Adelphi Theatre as understudy to Elsie Spain in the role of Princess Mathilde in The Quaker Girl, first going on stage in that role on 7 August 1911.
Edmund Falconer The year 1858 saw Falconer translate Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas, which was performed at the Princess Theatre in late 1858.
Richard D'Oyly CarteIn 1875, Carte became the business manager of the Royalty Theatre, under the direction of his client, the popular singing actress Madame Selina Dolaro.
Ruth VincentShe was the Plaintiff in Trial by Jury in the Ellen Terry Jubilee celebration on 12 June 1906 and the title role of Princess Amasis in Amasis : An Egyptian Princess in 1906 -- 07.
Eug?ne OudinTravelling to Europe in May 1886, Oudin met fellow New Yorker Lady Randolph Churchill in London, who set him up as a salon singer, during which period he appeared before British aristocracy, including The Prince of Wales.
Henry James ByronHis successful works in 1858 included The Lady of Lyons, or, Twopenny Pride and Pennytence and Fra Diavolo Travestie ; or, The Prince, the Pirate and the Pearl, also at the Strand, which later played in New York.
Tyrone PowerIn 1956, the year Columbia released The Eddy Duchin Story, another great success for the star, he returned to England to play the rake, Dick Dudgeon, in a revival of Shaw's The Devil's Disciple for one week at the Opera House in Manchester and nineteen weeks at the Winter Garden, London.
Henry Compton (actor)In 1853 he joined the company of John Baldwin Buckstone at the Haymarket Theatre, where he originated the role of Blenkinsop in An Unequal Match by Tom Taylor, Sir Solomon Frazer in Taylor's The Overland Route, De Vaudray in A Hero of Romance by Westland Marston, and Captain Mountraffe in Home by T. W. Robertson.
Frank WyattLater, Wyatt and his wife owned and managed the Trafalgar Square Theatre (known after 1895 as the Duke of York's Theatre).
Julia NeilsonIn 1896, they returned to England where, at the St James's Theatre, Neilson played Princess Flavia in The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope, remaining at that theatre for two years.
Clifton WebbIn 1916, he had another short run with Cole Porter's comic opera See America First, which opened at the Maxine Elliott Theatre on March 28, 1916, and closed after 15 performances on April 8, 1916.
Fisher MorganIn 1954, when the company revived Princess Ida, he also took on the part of King Hildebrand, having dropped the role of Bouncer the previous year.
W. S. PenleyIn 1879, Penley played Mr. Grinder in a revival of B. C. Stephenson and Arthur Sullivan's The Zoo at the Royalty.
Alice BarnettBarnett travelled with W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan and Carte to New York City for the company's production there of Pinafore, beginning 1 December 1879.
Marie DaintonThe next few years were spent appearing mainly in the music hall s until June 1899, when she scored a big success at the Avenue Theatre giving impressions of popular stage stars in a production entitled Pot Pourri.
Gladys MoncrieffIn 1914 she was in the chorus of a house G & S production ; for there she took on leading roles such as Josephine in H. M. S. Pinafore.
William Hunter KendalHe joined J. B. Buckstone's company at the Haymarket Theatre in London in 1866, where he performed in a wide variety of works, from burlesque to Shakespeare and was particularly admired for his comic roles.
John Hare (actor)In 1889 he became lessee and manager of the Garrick Theatre, built by his friend W. S. Gilbert, where (though he was often out of the cast) he produced several important plays, such as Pinero's The Profligate and The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith, and had a remarkable personal success in the chief part in Sydney Grundy's A Pair of Spectacles.
David HollidayIn 1962 a phone call from, and a subsequent meeting with, British actor-director Noël Coward led to the role of John Van Mier in the London production of Sail Away at the Savoy Theatre, London, with Elaine Stritch reprising her Broadway role as Mimi Paragon ; the London production ran for 265 performances.
Emmie OwenIn 1899, she created the role of Lazuli in The Lucky Star and sang Cousin Hebe in H. M. S. Pinafore.
Weedon GrossmithHe was shunned by managers who had promised him work, but on the strength of his American successes he was engaged by Henry Irving in 1888 to play Jacques Strop at the Lyceum Theatre in Charles Selby's Robert Macaire.
Robert EvettIn 1912, he returned to the Adelphi in Autumn Manoeuvres, which was managed by the famous producer George Edwardes, and later toured in that production.
Walter H. FisherHe next appeared with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in the baritone role of Archibald Grosvenor in Patience with Carte's principal touring company in the Autumn of 1883.
Courtice PoundsThe first of these was Ivan Caryll's The Cherry Girl (1903), presented by Seymour Hicks, in which Pounds played Starlight.
Sylvia GerrishOn September 21, 1880 she opened in Aladdin, as Princess Badroulbadour, at Baldwin's Theatre on Market Street in San Francisco, and the following month at the Bush Street Theatre she appeared in a revival of H. M. S. Pinafore.
Lily Brayton thumb | left | Lily Brayton as Ildico in'' Attila'' The Asche hit musical comedy Chu Chin Chow was staged in London in 1916.
John Dean (tenor)In 1930, Dean added the roles of Mr. Box in Cox and Box, Earl Tolloller in Iolanthe, Cyril in Princess Ida and Nanki-Poo in The Mikado.
Nancy McIntoshStanmore After nearly a decade away from the operatic stage, McIntosh returned, at Gilbert's request, to appear as Selene, the Fairy Queen, in Gilbert and Edward German's flop, Fallen Fairies at the Savoy Theatre in 1909.
Leonora BrahamTogether with George Power, Jessie Bond and Julia Gwynne, she was one of four artistes of the original D'Oyly Carte Opera Company who attended a reunion at the Savoy Hotel in 1914.
Jones HewsonIn March 1896, he created the role of the Herald in the original production of The Grand Duke at the Savoy Theatre, earning an encore from the Savoy audience and praise from the critics.
Charles Francis CoghlanHe made his Broadway debut on September 12, 1876 at the Fifth Avenue Theater, as Alfred Evelyn in Lord Lytton's `` Money'' and was an instant success.
Rutland BarringtonBarrington's comedy, Bartonmere Towers, was also produced at a matinee at the Savoy in 1893, with Barrington playing Sir James Hanbury.
Elsie SpainSpain and Clara Dow, the two sopranos who played leading roles in the 1908 -- 09 season, were the last D'Oyly Carte principal sopranos personally trained by W. S. Gilbert.
Roland CunninghamHe toured for the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's'D' Company from July to September in 1899, playing John Manners in Haddon Hall as well as appearing in The Lucky Star.
Lottie VenneShe remained at that theatre for four years in burlesques and comedies, such as Nemesis by H. B. Farnie, Loo and the Party Who Took Miss, Intimidad, Flamingo, Cracked Heads, The Lying Dutchman, Princess Toto, by Gilbert and Frederic Clay, Champagne, and as the Plaintiff in Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury in 1877, opposite Fisher's Defendant.
Richard Watson (singer)At the end of the tour, he returned to Australia, touring with the J. C. Williamson Company in 1935 -- 36 in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and three other pieces, Lilac Time, The Chocolate Soldier, and a rare revival of Robert Planquette's Paul Jones.
Wilson BarrettAfter managerial experience at the Grand Theatre Leeds and elsewhere, in 1879 he took over the management of the Old Court theatre, where in the following year he introduced Madame Helena Modjeska to London in an adaptation of Maria Stuart (by Schiller), together with productions of Adrienne Lecouvreur, La Dame aux camélias and other plays.
William CreswickCreswick was engaged for three years at the Haymarket Theatre, where he first appeared in July 1847 as Claude Melnotte to the Pauline of Helen Faucit in The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer Lytton.
Wilson BarrettIn 1886 Barrett left the Princess's Theatre, and in this same year he made a visit to America, repeated in later years.
Richard Temple (bass-baritone)He then created his most celebrated role, the Mikado of Japan in The Mikado (1885 -- 87), whom, according to Jessie Bond, he played as'' suave and oily''.
Charles KeanReturning to England, he entered on a successful engagement at the Haymarket Theatre, and in 1850, with Robert Keeley, became lessee of the Princess's Theatre, London.
Arthur SullivanHe took his own company on tour in the summer of 1874, appearing in his brother's Cox and Box and The Contrabandista, and later that year he again played Cox, this time at the Gaiety.
David Nunn FisherIn 1863 he gave, at the Hanover Square Rooms and at St. James's Hall, an entertainment called Facts and Fancies, and in the autumn of the same year rejoined the Princess's, then under Vining's management.
Durward Lelyright | thumb | upright | Lely as Dauntless In 1887, Lely created the role of Richard Dauntless in the next Savoy opera, Ruddigore.
Joanna RidingRiding performed the role of Ruth in Blithe Spirit in 2004 on tour at the Milton Keynes Theatre and Theatre Royal, Bath, and at the Savoy Theatre in London.
Florence PerryPerry then joined the London company in 1893 to create the role of Milly (later taking over the role of Bab) in Jane Annie at the Savoy Theatre.
Elsie SpainShe travelled to Australia in 1914 to play in musicals and operetta with the J. C. Williamson Company but was back in London the next year as the Bride in The Best Man at the London Pavilion and the New Theatre.
George W. AnsonHe appeared in New York in 1872, in the burlesque La Belle Sauvage by John Brougham at the Broadway theatre Niblo's Garden ; later the same year he was in the burlesque Poll and Partner Joe by F. C. Burnand at the same theatre.
Jones HewsonHe joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company 1894 as a member of the chorus of the original production of Mirette at the Savoy Theatre in London.
Rutland BarringtonIn November 1895, Barrington returned to the Savoy as Pooh-Bah in another revival of The Mikado.
Willie Warde left | thumb | George Grossmith, Jr. and -LSB- -LSB- Phyllis Dare executing Warde's choreography in The Sunshine Girl -RSB- -RSB- For the Christmas season of 1889, Warde appeared at the Avenue Theatre in The Field of the Cloth of Gold.
Julius BenedictIn the autumn of 1875, Benedict corresponded with W. S. Gilbert about collaborating on a comic opera with him, but Gilbert had too many projects and the idea was dropped.
Fred SullivanAfter the Royalty closed for the summer in June 1875, Fred Sullivan toured in with Dolaro's company, performing in operettas, playing the Viceroy in La Périchole and Pomponnet in Lecocq's La fille de Madame Angot, as well as the Judge in Trial.
Clara BlandickIn 1903 she played Gwendolyn in the Broadway premiere of E. W. Hornung's Raffles The Amateur Cracksman opposite Kyrle Bellew.
Hugh Enes BlackmoreIn 1908, Blackmore rejoined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy Theatre for the company's second London repertory season, as a member of the chorus.
Jean HindmarshIn reviewing Princess Ida in 1961, The Times wrote that, in the title role,'' Hindmarsh charms, amuses and... moves the audience''.
Louise GroodyOver the early years of her childhood Louise Groody's family would live in Houston and later Atlantic City, N. J. Louise Groody began as cabaret dancer in New York and while still in her teens drew the attention of Broadway producer Charles Dillingham that led to a dancing role in the 1915 C. M. S. McLellan musical revue, Around the Map.
Joe MorleyIn 1896, he once again joined the Clifford Essex Royal Pierrots - the word'' Royal'' was added when the'' Pierrots'' had performed before Royalty - and they appeared at Folkestone.
Thomas German ReedIn 1855, Reed and his wife began to present and perform in'' Mr. and Mrs. German Reed's Entertainments'', consisting of brief, small-scale, family-friendly comic opera s.
William Hunter Kendal left | thumb | upright | The Kendals in W. S. Gilbert's -LSB- -LSB- Pygmalion and Galatea, 1872 -RSB- -RSB- Kendal continued at the Soho for two years and then played provincial theatres, including in Glasgow, where he performed for four years.
William Chapman (baritone)In October 1960 he returned to the NYCO to sing Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance with Arnold Voketaitis as the Pirate King and Ruth Kobart as Ruth and Marcello in La bohème with Karol Loraine as Musetta, Dolores Mari as Mimì, and David Poleri as Rodolfo.
Alice MayIn March 1882, May was touring the British provinces with Emily Soldene's opera company, when a train on which they were travelling narrowly escaped a high-speed collision with an express train.
Rose HerseeIn addition to opera, Hersee played in lighter musical shows, taking the title role in Hervé's Frivoli at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in 1886.
Charles Villiers StanfordStanford's next opera was Shamus O'Brien (1896), a comic opera to a libretto by George H. Jessop.
Pauline JoranShe is remembered for creating the role of Saida in Arthur Sullivan's 1898 Savoy opera The Beauty Stone.
Oswald YorkeIn 1896, Yorke toured America with Edward Smith Willard performing Henry Jones' play The Rogue Comedy.
Sylvia CecilShe rejoined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company for the first half of 1930, playing the roles of Josephine in H. M. S. Pinafore, Mabel in The Pirates of Penzance, Yum-Yum in The Mikado, Rose Maybud in Ruddigore and Gianetta in The Gondoliers.
Roland CunninghamThereafter, he appeared regularly in musical theatre on the London stage, and acted in Two Merry Monarchs, an Edwardian musical comedy that opened at the Savoy Theatre in London on 10 March 1910, under the management of C. H. Workman.
Annie RussellShe returned in 1885, playing Zaire in the play Broken Hearts written by W. S. Gilbert.
Frank Thornton (Savoyard)In September 1888 he assembled a company and sailed once again to Australia, with a repertory of four comedies, Mamma by Sydney Grundy, Bonny Boy, Sweet Lavender by Arthur Wing Pinero, and The Private Secretary.
Laura Joyce BellBell played Buttercup in H. M. S. Pinafore in May 1879 with the Grand English Opera Company at Haverly's Lyceum Theatre and the next year joined the company of actors and singers at Daly's Broadway Theatre in productions of the Edgar Fawcett musical comedy Our First Families, the musical comedy, Zanina, taken from Nisida by Richard Genée, Cinderella at School, a long running musical comedy by Woolson Morse from the Thomas William Robertson musical, School, that in turn was adapted from the German, Aschenbrödel, by Johann Strauss II ; and productions of Fawcett's comedy, Americans Abroad.
Marie DaintonOn 24 December 1894 she opened as' Mr Falsehood' in The House that Jack Built at the Opera Comique, and the following year toured as' Flo' in Buttercup and Daisy.