No 42 -- Summer 1994 Edited by Michael Walters
In 1962, both the BBC Home Service and the Television (only one channel then) broadcast the Sadlers Wells production of THE MIKADO, with differing casts from that on the recording made at the same time. The radio version was a live relay from the theatre, the TV transmission obviously a specially made film. Does anyone know the whereabouts of audio tapes of either or both of these performances? The casts are given below:
Radio 18 Dec.1962 TV 24 Dec.1962 Recording Mikado John Hargreaves John Holmes John Holmes Nanki-Poo David Hillman Kevin Miller John Wakefield Koko Bill Owen Derek Hammond-Stroud Clive Revill Pooh-Bah Howell Glynne Denis Dowling Denis Dowling Pish-Tush John Heddle-Nash John Hargreaves John Heddle-Nash Go-To Kenneth Fawcett Kenneth Fawcett - Yum-Yum Marion Studholme Marion Studholme Marion Studholme Pitti-Sing Patricia Kern Patricia Kern Patricia Kern Peep-Bo Dorothy Nash Dorothy Nash Dorothy Nash Katisha Jean Allister Jean Allister Jean Allister
Sometime earlier, the BBC had broadcast the D'Oyly Carte in IOLANTHE, direct from the Savoy on 21 December 1961, and the subsequent Sadlers Wells production (never recorded complete) on 1 January 1962. Does anyone know of the whereabouts of tapes of either or both of these performances?
D'Oyly Carte Sadlers Wells
Lord Chancellor John Reed Eric Shilling
Mountararat Donald Adams Denis Dowling
Tolloller Philip Potter Stanley Bevan
Willis Kenneth Sandford Leon Greene
Strephon Jeffrey Skitch Julian Moyle
Fairy Queen Gillian Knight Heather Begg
Iolanthe Joyce Wright Patricia Kern
Celia Joan Lawrence Elizabeth Robson
Leila Pauline Wales Cynthia Morey
Fleta Dawn Bradshaw Marjorie Ward
Phyllis Mary Sansom Elizabeth Harwood
Narrator:Arthur Jacobs
I would also be interested to know if anyone has any information on the subsequent fate of Stanley Bevan who was a regular tenor at SW and ENO during the 60s and 70s, but seems to have subsequently vanished.
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