1882 Savoy Theatre

Iolanthe (Jessie Bond).	The Lord Chancellor (George Grossmith).	Tolloller (Durward Lely) & Mountararat (Rutland Barrington).	Strephon (Richard Temple) Phyllis(Leonora Braham).

Private Willis (Charles Manners) & the Fairy Queen (Alice Barnett).	Leila (Julia Gwynne) & Fleta (Sybil Grey).

[Programmes from the original production.]

1901 Savoy Theatre

Isabel Jay as Phyllis.	Rosina Brandram as Queen of the Fairies and Walter Passmore as the Lord Chancellor.

[Programme from the first revival.]

1907-8 Savoy Theatre

The Fairy Queen (Louie Réné) & Iolanthe (Jessie Rose).	Strephon (Henry Lytton), the Lord Chancellor (C. H. Workman) & Phyllis (Clara Dow).	Celia (Violet Lander), Leila (Beatrice Meredith) & Fleta (Violet Frampton).

[Programme from the 1907 season.]

1919-20 Prince's Theatre

Men's costumes by Percy Anderson, ladies' by Atillo Comelli.

Phyllis (Helen Gilliland), Iolanthe (Nellie Briercliffe), & Strephon (Sydney Granville).	The Lord Chancellor (Henry Lytton) with Iolanthe.	Private Willis (Leo Sheffield), Mountararat (Frederick Hobbs) & Tolloller (Derek Oldham) with Phyllis.

The Fairy Queen (Bertha Lewis) with Private Willis.	The Lord Chancellor and the two earls.	Phyllis and Strephon in the second act.

1921-1922 Prince's Theatre

Phyllis (Helen Gilliland).	The Fairy Queen (Bertha Lewis), the Lord Chancellor (Henry Lytton) & Iolanthe (Catherine Ferguson).

1924 Prince's Theatre

Costumes by Norman Wilkinson.

Iolanthe (Eileen Sharp), Strephon (Sydney Granville), Mountararat (Darrell Fancourt), Phyllis (Winifred Lawson) & Tolloller (Sidney Pointer).	Strephon & the Fairy Queen (Bertha Lewis).	Iolanthe, Strephon & the Lord Chancellor (Henry Lytton).

1926 Prince's Theatre

Chorus of Fairies.	Celia (Louise Whittock), Leila (Beatrice Elburn) & Fleta (Blossom Gelsthorpe).	Iolanthe (Eileen Davies).

Strephon (Gregory Stroud) & Phyllis (Winifred Lawson).	Phyllis with Mountararat (Darrell Fancourt) & Tolloller (Charles Goulding).	Iolanthe, Strephon and Phyllis.

1929 Savoy Theatre

Costumes designed by George Sherringham.

Act II Finale.

1932-3 Savoy Theatre

Strephon(Leslie Rands).	Iolanthe (Marjorie Eyre).	Phyllis (Rowena Ronald).

The Fairy Queen (Dorothy Gill) with Strephon and Iolanthe.	Iolanthe with Phyllis and Strephon.	Mountararat (Darrell Fancourt) & Tolloller (John Dean) with Phyllis.

1938 Scala Theatre

Leila (Ivy Sanders), Celia (Margery Abbott) & Fleta (Kathleen Naylor).	Iolanthe (Marjorie Eyre).	Phyllis (Brenda Bennett) with Mountararat (Darrell Fancourt) & Tolloller (John Dean).

Private Willis (Sydney Granville) & The Fairy Queen (Evelyn Gardiner).	Strephon (Leslie Rands) & Phyllis.	The Lord Chancellor (Martyn Green) with Mountararat & Tolloller.	The Fairy Queen with the Lord Chancellor and Iolanthe.

1939 Sadler's Wells Theatre

Phyllis (Viola Wilson) & Strephon (Leslie Rands).	Phyllis with Mountararat (Darrell Fancourt) & Tolloller ( John Dean).	Peers' Chorus.	Finale, Act II.

1941 Savoy Theatre

Private Willis (Radley Flynn) & the Fairy Queen (Ella Halman)

1948 Sadler's Wells Theatre

Private Willis (Richard Walker).	Act I Finale with Strephon (Charles Dorning), the Fairy Queen (Ella Halman), the Lord Chancellor (Martyn Green), Mountararat (Darrell Fancourt) & Tolloller (Leonard Osborn).

1953

The Lord Chancellor (Peter Pratt).	Iolanthe (Joyce Wright).	Tolloller (Leonard Osborn).	Private Willis (Fisher Morgan).

Iolanthe.	The Lord Chancellor.	The Fairy Queen (Ann Drummond-Grant).	Phyllis (Shirley Hall) with Mountararat (Ivor Evans) & Tolloller.

Finale, Act I.	Private Willis and the Fairy Queen.	The Lord Chancellor, Tolloller and Mountararat.	Finale, Act II.

1961-2 Savoy Theatre

The Fairy Queen (Gillian Knight).	Strephon (Jeffrey Skitch) & Phyllis (Mary Sansom).	Peers' Chorus.	Iolanthe (Joyce Wright), Strephon & the Lord Chancellor (John Reed).

Private Willis (Kenneth Sandford) .	The Lord Chancellor & Iolanthe.	The Fairy Queen, Lord Chancellor & Iolanthe.

1966

Tolloller (David Palmer).

1970

Strephon (John Webley).

1975-6 Sadler's Wells Theatre

Phyllis (Barbara Lilley) with Mountararat (John Ayldon) & Tolloller (Geoffrey Shovelton).	Peers' Chorus.	Strephon (Michael Rayner) & the Fairy Queen (Lyndsie Holland).

Private Willis (Kenneth Sandford).	The Lord Chancellor (John Reed) and Iolanthe (Jane Metcalfe).

1977 Sadler's Wells Theatre

Setting and costumes by Bruno Santini.

Fairies' Chorus.	Celia (Suzanne O'Keefe), Leila (Lorraine Daniels) & Fleta (Patricia Ann Bennett).	Iolanthe (Jane Metcalf) & the Fairy Queen (Patricia Leonard).

Iolanthe, Strephon (Gareth Jones), Tolloller (Geoffrey Shovelton) & Mountararat (John Ayldon)	The Lord Chancellor (John Reed) & Iolanthe.

1979-80 Sadler's Wells Theatre

Iolanthe (Lorraine Daniels).	The Fairy Queen (Patricia Leonard) with Chorus.	Strephon (Peter Lyon) & Phyllis (Barbara Lilley).	Mountararat (John Ayldon), the Lord Chancellor (James Conroy-Ward) & Tolloller (Harold Sharples).

1980

The Fairy Queen (Patricia Leonard) & Strephon (Peter Lyon).	Peers' Chorus.	The Lord Chancellor (James Conroy-Ward)	Phyllis (Barbara Lilley) & Strephon.

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