A touring company bringing the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan to life
On tour this autumn - Ruddigore!
Tickets now on sale for our six venues Get your tickets now! Links to each box office below
Tickets on sale soon - Richmond Georgian Theatre Royal - Saturday 5 October at 7.30pm
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.
This year, from August to October, we take on the Gilbert and Sullivan gothic melodrama, Ruddigore, not as well-known as some G&S operas, but arguably funnier and more tongue in cheek than ever. Expect all the familiar G&S elements: terrific music, social satire, comic pathos -- but with a seasoning of sinister spectres!
A family curse means a baronet must commit a crime every day or perish. In trying to escape his fate, he encounters dancing sailors, frustrated bridesmaids and a chorus of ghostly ancestors. What could possibly go wrong?!
Be prepared for laughs, thrills and fabulous music in this touring production directed by Graham Weston, who plays Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, with professional orchestra, conducted by our musical director, Oliver Longstaff.
Graham Weston plays Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd in the gothic melodrama, Ruddigore
Meet the cast
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Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd
Graham Weston
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Rose Maybud
Helen Fieldsend
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Sir Despard Murgatroyd
Tony Noden
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Sir Roderick Murgatroyd
David Parker
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Richard Dauntless
Dan Metcalfe
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Mad Margaret
Janice Rendel
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Dame Hannah
Jean Krzeminski
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Old Adam Goodheart
Bobbie Greatorex
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Zorah
Catherine Nuttall
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Ruth
Roz Ebbetts
News and pictures from this year’s Savoyards’ New Year Dinner in Harrogate
Thank you to our great audiences for your support for last year’s tour!
Around 1000 people came to one of our five Gondoliers performances at Penistone, Settle, Scarborough, Bingley and Yeadon in 2023
We have had fantastic feedback and we are already looking forward to going back on the road this Autumn when we will be bringing the hilarious gothic comic-opera, Ruddigore to a theatre near you!
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