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Great Yarmouth Gilbert & Sullivan SocietypresentedTHE YEOMEN OF THE GUARDTuesday
8th May to Saturday 12th May 2001
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| Sir Richard Cholmondley (Lieutenant of the Tower) | Steve Holmes |
| Colonel Fairfax | Chris Steed |
| Sergeant Meryll | David Arnold |
| Leonard Meryll (his son) | Anthony Pearce |
| Jack Point (a strolling jester) | Trevor Burton |
| Wilfred Shadbolt (Head Jailer) | Paul Gooch |
| Elsie Maynard (a strolling singer) | Helen Pearce |
| Phoebe Meryll (Sergeant Meryll's daughter) | Suzanne Long |
| Dame Carruthers (Housekeeper to the Tower) | Dorothy Pearce |
| Kate (her niece) | Hannah Long |
| The Headsman | Keith Wheadon |
| First Yeoman | Hugh Graham |
| Second Yeoman | Ken Wardle |
| First Citizen | Michael Boyce |
| Second Citizen | Maurice Jeckells |
CHORUS OF YEOMEN OF THE GUARD, GENTLEMEN
& CITIZENS
Meriel Acton, Ian Bayliss, Rita Bland, Nancy Boardley, Michael
Boyce, Jeffrey Burgess, Vivian Burgess, Isabel Fogg, Margaret Francis, David
Garrod, Wendy Gooch, Maurice Jeckells, Philip Laker-Jones, Sally Landin, Dion
Ogden, Maurice Payne, Caroline Reddish, Lindsey Richards, Val Richards, Bridget
Robinson, Christine Roffey, Stuart Walton, Joan Wardle, Keith Wheadon,
Gill Whiley, Frank Whitehead
Children
Anna Fogg, Helen Fogg, Victoria Wardle
PRODUCER
Trevor Thurston
MUSICAL DIRECTOR
Stella Brownsea
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Jack Point (Trevor Burton) and Elsie Maynard (Helen Pearce) are introduced to the villagers. |
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Leonard Meryll (Anthony Pearce) joins in the plot to save Fairfax |
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The Lieutenant of the Tower (Steve Holmes) asks Elsie to marry a man she has never seen. |
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Sergeant Meryll (David Arnold) passes Colonel Fairfax (Chris Steed) off as his son, Leonard |
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Strange Adventure. Dame Carruthers (Dorothy Pearce) and her niece, Kate (Hannah Long) tell the Sergeant and Fairfax what Elsie has been saying in her sleep. |
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Tell a tale of Cock and Bull. |
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A Man who would Woo a Fair Maid. Phoebe Meryll (Suzanne Long), Fairfax and Elsie teach Jack how to woo. |
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Phoebe has to succumb to Shadbolt's advances to keep her family's scheming a secret |
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Elsie realises she is still married to Fairfax and she wants to get married to Leonard. She doesn't realise that they are one and the same person! |
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The reunited couple live happily ever after. Hopefully none of the audience noticed that Elsie was already 7 months pregnant! |
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