"PRINCESS IDA"
or 'Castle Adamant'

SSAOS 1928 production

• Lyrics by Sir W S Gilbert 
  Gilbert had, over the years, reused many plot-pieces or personality from earlier shows, and most notably from his own earlier years, as the raw material for his own musicals. With "PRINCESS IDA", he had attempted, with rather obviously old-glued-to-new results, to remake one of his youthful pasticcio burlesques as a Savoy opera, which opened on January 5th, 1884.
  

• Music by Sir Arthur A Sullivan
  
  This Comic Opera differs to the usual custom of  G & S productions, was divided into three Acts, the final act ending with these words:

  It were profanity for poor humanity To treat as vanity the sway of love. In no locality  nor principality          Is our mortality its sway above

• SSAOS Production at Empire Theatre, South  Shields, 6th - 11th February, 1928

 Dramatis Personæ

King Hildebrand.....	F R Hanley		Princess Ida.........	Mdme. D Barrow
Hilarion...................	Arthur Hall		Lady Blanche.......	Miss M Carmichael
Cyril........................	C Kirsop		Lady Psyche.........	Miss B Legg
Florian....................	Geo. W Bainbridge		Mellisa..................	Miss E Pringle
King Gama.............	Alan Porteus		Saccadissa............	Miss E Ward
Arac........................	A West		Chloe.....................	Mrs. E Mothersole
Guron......................	J W Corbitt		Ada........................	Mrs. F Hanley
Scynthius	F H Ornsby

	King Hildebrand Fred R Hanley	Princess Ida Mdme. Betty Barrow	Lady Psyche Miss B Legg	Mellisa Miss E Pringle
	King Gama Alan Porteous		Lady Blanche Miss M Carmicha

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