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Affiliated to the
National Operatic and Dramatic Association

   

"Yeomen of the Guard

Wednesday 25th April to
Saturday 28th April 2012 at 7.30pm
(Saturday matinee at 2.30pm)

Batley Town Hall

 
Sir Richard Cholmondley
(Lieutenant of theTower)
Brook Carbutt
Colonel Fairfax                                           
Leon Waksberg
Sergeant Meryll
(of the Yeomen of the Guard)
David Parker
Leonard Meryll (his son)
Steven Greenwood
Jack Point
(a Strolling Jester)

Wilfred Shadbolt
(Head Jailer & Assistant Tormentor)

The Headsman  
Tom Lynch
First Yeoman  
Peter Jones
Second Yeoman 
Graham Thorne
First Citizen
Peter Sugden
Second Citizen 
Tony Johnson
Elsie Maynard
(a Strolling Singer)                          
Anna Trent
Phoebe Meryll
(Sergeant Meryll’s Daughter)
Liz Blount
Dame Carruthers
 (Housekeeper of the Tower)
Stephanie Roe
Kate
(her Niece)
Carol Parkinson

 

Our Production Team

 

Producer/Director - Steven Greenwood

 

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Musical Director - David Hall

 

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Our Cast

Wilfred Shadbolt
Robert Thurman

Since joining the Society in 1976, Robert has played roles in twelve of the thirteen G & S operettas.  He hopes to complete the set with next year’s production of ‘Utopia Ltd’.  He has played  Major General Stanley on four occasions, most recently for Halifax G&S.  He has also performed with Meltham G&S and Heckmondwike Players, taking the role of Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ and most recently, Colonel Pickering in ‘My Fair Lady’.  In 2005 he won a NODA award for his performance as Pooh Bah in Halifax’s production of ‘The Mikado’ – his favourite role.

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Robert Thurman - Major General
Malcolm Parkinson - Sergeant of Police

Jack Point
Malcolm Parkinson

Malcolm made his first appearance on stage as one of the children in ‘The King and I’ with Dewsbury Collegians. 

Since then he has developed his reputation within local G & S circles as a patter man but is equally at home in straight acting rolls, music hall and other musicals and appears regularly with Dewsbury Arts Group.

 

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