| H.M.S. Pinafore | |
|---|---|
| by | |
| W.S. Gilbert | Music |
| Arthur Sullivan | Libretto |
| Season 23 |
| Dec 26 to Dec 28, 1935 |
in association with the Orpheus Operatic Society
Orpheus Musical Theatre (as it is today known) began life in 1905 as a glee club giving its first concert in 1907. In 1915, it became the Orpheus Amateur Operatic Society and began producing Savoy operas in the Russell Theatre. But in 1928 the Russell, Ottawa’s only playhouse, burned down and was eventually demolished to make way for Confederation Square in 1937. Orpheus presented one more lavish production in 1930 at the Little Theatre, but found that the reduced seating capacity and short run made it financially unsustainable. Productions halted for five years though the Society continued to meet. In 1935, the Ottawa Drama League decided to substitute a musical play for its Christmas production and invited the Orpheus Society to collaborate; this production of H.M.S. Pinafore was the result. The following year the ODL again collaborated with Orpheus on The Pirates of Penzance. Orpheus performed one more operetta – The Gondoliers – at the Little Theatre in Dec 1938, under its own auspices (therefore not listed in this database). There was one final co-production - the pantomime Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves - in Dec. 1939 - with the ODL Workshop. After that Orpheus moved to the Ottawa Technical High School and continued to thrive.
| Cast | ||
|---|---|---|
| D. Roy Kennedy | The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. (First Lord of Admiralty) | |
| James P. (J.P.) Kenney | Captain Corcoran (Commanding H.M.S. Pinafore) | |
| Richard Pentland | Ralph Rackstraw (Able Seaman) | |
| James G. Scott | Dick Deadeye (Able Seaman) | |
| Horace M. Butler | Bill Bobstay (Boatswain) | |
| Don Cottrell | Bob Becket (Carpenter) | |
| Gordon Askwith | Tom Tucker (Midshipman) | |
| Kathleen Burden | Josephine (The Captain's Daughter) | |
| Kaye Carleton | Hebe (Sir Joseph's First Cousin) | |
| Christine McCulloch Allan | Little Buttercup (A Portsmouth Bumboat Woman) | |
| Barbara Haydon | Lead Soprano | |
| Shirley Allan | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Peggy Arnold | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Lois Bothwell | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Vera Brown | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Edith E. Burn | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Florence Ellis | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Margaret Harrison | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Mona Harrison | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Aribert Helmer | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Veronica Hogan | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Tonya Nash | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Vivian Palmer | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Patricia R. Pirie | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Rosita Rico | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Margaret Sage | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Vivienne St. Pierre | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Audrey L. Scott | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Mary Scott | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Florence G. Seddon | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Doreen McGregor Smith | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Elaine Stewart | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Lona M. Willis | Chorus: Soprano | |
| Mary Allen | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Doris Armstrong | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Elsie August | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Nina Gardiner | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Pearl Haydon | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Lillian Howe | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Edna Kalil | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Mauvis E. Kemp | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Veronica Lochnan | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Minna Wagner | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Aline Mathe | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Jean L. Mitchell | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Blanche Quirk | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Hazel Sage | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Alison Thomas | Chorus: Contralto | |
| Earle W. Cameron | Chorus: Tenor | |
| Denis Gillan | Chorus: Tenor | |
| A.L. Hopper | Chorus: Tenor | |
| Anderson G. (Andy) Kalil | Chorus: Tenor | |
| Samuel (S.R.) Jolliffe | Chorus: Tenor | |
| Adam McGregor | Chorus: Tenor | |
| W. McNamara | Chorus: Tenor | |
| M.J.M. Mathe | Chorus: Tenor | |
| Alexander Morrison | Chorus: Tenor | |
| Roger Watkins-Pitchford | Chorus: Tenor | |
| Leonard Schroeter | Chorus: Tenor | |
| William C. (Bill) Tierney | Chorus: Tenor | |
| Lawrence W. Butler | Chorus: Bass | |
| Arthur W. Cuthbert | Chorus: Bass | |
| Jean Dubois | Chorus: Bass | |
| Percy Hardy | Chorus: Bass | |
| Percy May | Chorus: Bass | |
| Mervyn Pettapiece | Chorus: Bass | |
| Douglas Seward | Chorus: Bass | |
| Francis L. Seddon | Chorus: Bass | |
| Joseph (J.Edward, Joe) Webb | Chorus: Bass | |
| Gordon Southam | Marine Sergeant | |
| Laurence Craig | Marine | |
| Clarence Robson | Marine | |
| John Gunning | Marine | |
| H.S. Craig | Marine | |
| Eunice Coombs | Dancer | |
| Ida Currie | Dancer | |
| Jessie Currie | Dancer | |
| Marion Foster | Dancer | |
| Georgina Hutt | Dancer | |
| Yolande Leduc | Dancer | |
| Dorothy Le Tour | Dancer | |
| Eva Lopdell | Dancer | |
| Kay Lopdell | Dancer | |
| Louise MacDonald | Dancer | |
| Margaret Pink | Dancer | |
| Helen Raport | Dancer | |
| Audrey Tweedie | Dancer | |
| Evelyn Williams | Dancer |