We’re thrilled to announce the principal cast for our June production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard!

We’d first like to thank all of our auditionees for their hard work, time, and skill. Every audition was a pleasure and the standard of auditionees was exceptionally high – thank you all for giving us such a rich pool of talent to draw from, truly. And remember everyone is welcome to join our madcap chorus – more details below!

Our principal players:

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth – Fay Carradine
Sir Richard Cholmondeley, Lieutenant of the Tower – Geoffrey Wallis
Colonel Fairfax – Dave Anstice-Pim
Sergeant Meryll – Stephen Roe
Leonard Meryll – Laurence Crutchlow
Jack Point – Simon Jones
Wilfred Shadbolt – Chris Cann
1st Yeoman – Tim Strong
2nd Yeoman – Stoo Gill
Ye Headsman – Bob Vaughan
Elsie Maynard – Katie Frodsham
Phoebe Meryll – Laura Jamie Anstice
Dame Carruthers – Helena Culliney
Kate – Lissy Fothergill

The roles of First & Second Citizen will be cast in rehearsals.

Congratulations all!

We are staging Yeomen as if it were being performed in a playhouse in the grandeur (and, um, otherwise) of Elizabethan London, so we’re building a period playhouse-within-a-playhouse on the Riverhead stage! We’re planning an energetic (and dare we say rowdy) Elizabethan ensemble of Yeomen Warders, nobles, ruffians and ne’er-do-wells to throng the stage, galleries, and groundling yard. There’s plenty of action and beautiful period costumes. And let’s not forget, you’ll be singing some of the very best music Sullivan ever wrote!

Our trips to Louth are always a great time with lots of fun on and off stage, so we hope you’ll consider joining us for all the social events planned including curry night, parties, and the annual costume ball with ceilidh. This is our final annual production in Louth, so we’d love to have you join this “last hurrah” – we’ll be pulling out all the stops to make it a show to remember.

The first full-company rehearsal will be on Sunday 12 April at Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, Kensington at 2.00pm – more details will be posted on our website www.newlondonoperagroup.org in the near future.

We can’t wait to get started, and we look forward to seeing you at rehearsals and in Louth!

Tony, Alex, Eirian, Chris, Fay and Steve

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