On tour in 2025 - Iolanthe
The West Yorkshire Savoyards continue to build up a big following across Yorkshire – in 2023 total audiences of around 1000 thrilled to The Gondoliers with house-full signs on the door. More than 900 came to see our 2024 production - Ruddigore
In 2025 we will be staging one of the favourite Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, Iolanthe, or ‘The Peer and the Peri’,
See below for details of rehearsal dates and tour dates.
Dates for our 2025 touring production of Iolanthe:
Saturday 6 September 2025, 7.30pm - Penistone Paramount
Saturday 13 September 2025, 7.30pm – Settle Victoria Hall
Saturday 20 September 2025, 7.30pm – Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond
Saturday 27 September 2025, 7.30pm – Bingley Arts Centre
Sunday 5 October 2025, 3pm – Scarborough YMCA Theatre
Iolanthe Music rehearsals - June. Mondays and Wednesdays at Boothtown Methodist Church, 7.30pm
June 9 (All), June 11 (principals), June 16(Chorus), June 18 (Principals), June 23 (All),June 25 (Principals as available/reqd)
Iolanthe Floor Rehearsals - August/Sept at Boothtown Methodist Church:
Rehearsals for Ruddigore, returning to the Buxton Festival on August 7 2025
There will be three rehearsals to refresh and revise Ruddigore ahead of the visit to Buxton
At Boothtown : Tuesday 29 July 7.30pm (Principals); Wednesday 30 July, 7.30pm (All, Act One); Thursday 31 July (All, Act Two)
Get in 6.30pm Wednesday 6 August at the Pavilion Arts Centre
Dress Rehearsal at 10am, Thursday 7 August at the Pavilion Arts Centre, Buxton with the show at 2pm
Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd
Sir Ruthven meeting his ancestors
Sir Roderic and a chorus of ghosts
Rose Maybud - Helen Feildsend
Rose Maybud
Rose meets Robin
Rose consults her book of etiquette
Fair is Rose
Sir Despard - Tony Noden
Dame Hannah - Jean Krzeminski
Robin Oakapple - Graham Weston
Sir Roderic - David Parker
Rose Maybud- Helen Fieldsend
Ruth - Roz Ebbetts
Old Adam - Bobbie Greatorex
'Nay gentle maidens- you sing well but vainly'
Listen, and you shall hear the legend
Dame Hannah! - This is not what I expected
The Bridesmaids
In rehearsal ...
Old Adam and Sir Ruthven
In rehearsal ...
'Grant thou her prayer'
