Trial by Jury
1958

November 7 and 8
Darien Junior High School
Director: Joel Fairfax

Performed with “Highlights from G&S”

 

Cast

The Learned Judge…………Alan Knowles
Angelina (The Plaintiff)…….Ann Collins
Edwin (The Defendant)……Frank Chapman
Counsel for the Plaintiff…..Wendell Stickney
Usher…………………………..Frederick Scharmer
Foreman of the Jury……….Edward Gilden

Chorus

Arthur Bower, William Coughlan, Edward Gilden, John Haugh, Frank Hensel, Robert Murdoch, Bernard Nemoitin, Arthur Pierson, Noel Kaiser, R Duff Masterson, Emmanuel Valentine.

Edith Dodds, Ellen Fiarfax, Jeanne Harper, Lois Kaiser, Betty Keirstead, Betty Leonard, Margaret Lind, Pearl Marr, Dorothy Odle, Jane White.

Backstage:  Emmanuel Valentine, Frederick Scharmer

Trial by Jury was also performed with

Highlights from Gilbert and Sullivan

  1. Overture to The “Yeomen of the Guard”
  2. Pirates of Penzance: “Hail Poetry”……………………….Chorus
  3. Patience:
    1. If you anxious for to shine…………………………..Frederick Scharmer
    2. Prithee pretty maiden………………………………Ellen Fairfax and Frank Chapman
  4. The  Mikado
    1. Three Little Maids……………………………………Dorothy Odle, Eleanor Lagner, Betty Keirstad
    2. The moon and I………………………………………Dorothy Odle
    3. Brightly dawns our wedding day……………….Chorus
  5. Ruddigore
    1. I once was a very abandoned person……….Frederick and Ida Scharmer
  6. The Gondoliers
    1. Try we lifelong………………………………………..Frank Chapman, Bernard Nemoitin, Betty Keirstead, Wendell Stickney, Ellen Fairfax
    2. Dance a cachuca……………………………………Chorus

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