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Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS38/3344
Title'Patience' by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
Extent1 file
Date1881-1929
DescriptionPress and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Patience' with photographs of members of the cast; typescript page gives cast lists and dates; includes programme extract with cast list [1929]; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the opera

Performed at The Opera Comique, London, 23 Apr 1881 (578 performances); The Savoy Theatre, London, 10 Oct 1881; The Savoy Theatre, London, 7 Nov 1900 (150 performances); The Savoy Theatre, London, 4 Apr 1907; musical director, Francois Cellier; The Princes Theatre, London, 24 Nov 1919; The Princes Theatre, London, 12 Nov 1921; The Princes Theatre, London, 31 Mar 1924; The Princes Theatre, London, 4 Oct 1926
The Savoy Theatre, London, 11 Nov 1929; scenery and costumes by George Sheringham

Casts: Richard Temple, Frank Thornton, Durward Lely, George Grossmith, Rutland Barrington, G. Bowley, Jessie Bond, Julia Gwynne, M. Fortescue, Alice Barnett, Leonora Braham, Jones Hewson, W. Leon, Robert Evett, Walter Passmore, Henry Lytton, H. Pritchard, Blanche Murray, Lulu Evans, Agnes Fraser, Rosina Brandram, Isabel Jay, Frank Wilson, Richard Andean, Harold Wilde, C. Workman, John Clulow, Ronald Greene, Jessie Rose, Marie Wilson, Ruby Gray, Louie Rene, Clara Dow, Sydney Granville, Allen Morris, James Hay, Henry Lytton, Leo Sheffield, Harry Arnold, Nellie Briercliffe, Catherine Ferguson, Elsie Griffin, Bertha Lewis, Sylvia Cecil, Darrell Fancourt, Leo Darnton, Isobel MacLaren, Anna Bethel, Helen Gilliand, Ivan Menzies, Sydney Pointer, Eileen Sharp, Renee Cadell, Winifred Lawson, Martyn Green, Charles Goulding, Gregory Stroud, Blossom Gelsthorpe
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