History of the D’Oyly Carte: A Cast List (part 1)

(re-uploaded from 18 August 2023)
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Just a little side project I've been doing after FTPOT. Nothing in your line today, and if your curiosity's satisfied, you can go.
No no no, I'm kidding. This probably took a week or two to make, and I'm sure there are at least a few people here who are interested in this sort of thing.
This video is the first in a series of two about the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, the famous British theatre troupe that performed Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas for over 100 years, whose recordings are still sought after today.
Note that “guest appearance” here refers to those such appearances labelled “guest” in my main source - “Who Was Who in the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company (1875-1982)” - but only if they played one or two parts, I believe was the criteria.
Why the twentieth century when the video starts in 1904? That's when the number of touring companies became one - with a small exception in the 1920s - and it's also when the Company seems to have begun to list names of not only the principals, but the choristers as well. Also, if you check out the WWW you'll see that the time period before 1904 was a bit of chaos about who was who and where. But I've a feeling most of you will find the 20th century more interesting.
And why the silence between 1939 and 1945? The war, of course, but also because there were no recordings made by the Company during this period.
Part 2: • History of the D’Oyly ...

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NOTE: Only some of the London seasons and American tours are shown-the full list of the Company’s stateside engagements is not available, or at least I don’t think it is. Also, here are some mistakes I've already caught (sorry about that): - Alphabetical order mishaps: 1919 (should be Goulding→Granville), 1928 (should be Eyre→Gelsthorpe), late '20s/early '30s (men's chorus might be out of order, specifically from Hodgkins to Jones), 1930s (should be Curtis→Drummond-Grant), late 1960s (should be Lloyd-Jones→Lowry, although in Welsh I am correct) - Inconsistencies: TRIAL BY JURY should be written out in full, just like PRINCESS IDA; the last three pairs of operas recorded in 1950 are not separated by an ampersand, making it appear that “Mikado Gondoliers”, “Ruddigore Yeomen” and “Patience Iolanthe” are their actual names; a few extra spaces are needed in the recordings timeline for the early 1970s (Pirates/Pinafore) and 1978 (Gondoliers/Cox-Box-Zoo) - Lack of justification for lists: April 1922, February 1932, August 1975 (women's chorus) - Mistakes in dates: TRIAL BY JURY recording in September 1927, not August - Mistakes in footnotes: The footnote stating that Ralph Mason was earlier known as John is not listed, leading to to the temporary assumption that his name was “Ralph*” for a month (1959); the same applies to Janet “St. Claire*” (1970) - Mistakes in status: - From 1955 to 1959, John Reed should be listed as a semi-principal, as that's when he played the Learned Judge (an undeniably non-chorus rôle) - The WWW mentions that David Palmer was promoted to principal tenor in the same month that Thomas Round left the Company (1965), and the video shows it as such-however, his promotion (and Round’s departure) was actually a year earlier - From early 1971 to 1972, Arthur Jackson's name appears as both chorister and semi-principal; he was actually a semi-principal because he played chorus parts as well as Sergeant of Police in PIRATES - Name errors (the worst kind): ABBY Hadfield (not “Vanessa”, 1963-70), JANETTE Kearns (not “Janettte”, early 1970s)