Iolanthe
1964

April 10, 11, 17 and 18
Middlesex Junior High School
Director: William Mount-Burke
The Troupers Light Opera Orchestra

 Cast

The Lord Chancellor……..Sandy Flandreau
Lord Mountararat………….Walt Hallenborg
Lord Tolloller………………..Lowry Kohler
Private Willis…………………Ed Gilden
Strephon………………………Bill Erhart
Queen of the Fairies………Lucille Dressler
Iolanthe……………………….Carol Princiotti
Celia……………………………Christine Casey.
Leila……………………………..Donna Greene
Fleta……………………………. Barbara Skelton
Phyllis…………………………..Marjorie McIntosh

 

Backstage: Catherine Erhart, Humfrey Udall

Chorus of Peers

Richard Allen, Richard Anthes, Robert Charles, Charles Clute, Frank Gibson, Harold Greist, Robert Hill, Grant Holt, David Lutely, Robert O’Connell, William Starkweather, Wendell Stickney, Ward Tracy, Humfrey Udall, Emmanuel Valentine.

Guards: Thomas Boucher, Paul Brinkerhoff, William Ferguson, Mark Flandreau, David Fuller, Greig Geise, Robert Mertz, James Waters, Frank Wilcox.

Train Bearer: Ian Compton.

Chorus of Fairies

Margaret Gibson, Nori Greist, Virginia Hamilton, Jeanne Harper, Jean Holden, Constance Knapp, Margaret Lind, Lisbeth Leonard, Laurie McDonough, Elaine Perine, Louise Risque, Jean Saunders, Evelyn Schuyler, Elizabeth Stickney, Patricia Udall, Marjory Waters.

The Darien Review

The professional touches that this year’s director brought were particularly noticeable in the group movements and in the handling of the huge cast…also in his choral leadership which seemed to have to have unified the groups of singers.