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==Historical casting==
The following tables show the casts of the principal original productions and D'Oyly Carte Opera Company touring repertory at approximately 10-year intervals through to the company's 1982 closure:

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!Role!!Savoy Theatre<br />1887<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 10</ref>!!Fifth Avenue<br />1887<ref>Gänzl, p. 331</ref><ref>Prestige, Colin. "D'Oyly Carte and the Pirates", a [https://archive.today/20120715191328/http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/handle/1808/5875 paper presented at the International Conference of G&S] held at the [[University of Kansas]], May 1970, p. 146</ref>!!D'Oyly Carte<br />1920 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 138</ref>!!D'Oyly Carte<br />1930 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 155</ref>!!D'Oyly Carte<br />1939 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 164</ref>
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|Robin Oakapple||[[George Grossmith]]||[[George Thorne (actor)|George Thorne]]||[[Henry Lytton]]||[[Henry Lytton]]||[[Martyn Green]]
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|Richard Dauntless||[[Durward Lely]]||[[Courtice Pounds]]||[[Derek Oldham]]||[[Charles Goulding]]||[[John Dean (singer)|John Dean]]
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|Sir Despard||[[Rutland Barrington]]||[[Fred Billington]]||[[Leo Sheffield]]||[[Sydney Granville]]||[[Sydney Granville]]
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|Old Adam||[[Rudolph Lewis (singer)|Rudolph Lewis]]||Leo Kloss||Douglas Kirke||Joseph Griffin||[[L. Radley Flynn]]
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|Sir Roderic||[[Richard Temple (opera singer)|Richard Temple]]||[[Frederick Federici]]||[[Darrell Fancourt]]||[[Darrell Fancourt]]||[[Darrell Fancourt]]
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|Rose Maybud||[[Leonora Braham]]||[[Geraldine Ulmar]]||[[Sylvia Cecil]]||[[Sylvia Cecil]]||Margery Abbott
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|Mad Margaret||[[Jessie Bond]]||Kate Forster||Catherine Ferguson||[[Nellie Briercliffe]]||[[Marjorie Eyre]]
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|Dame Hannah||[[Rosina Brandram]]||Elsie Cameron||[[Bertha Lewis]]||[[Bertha Lewis]]||[[Evelyn Gardiner]]
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|Zorah||Josephine Findlay||Aida Jenoure||Marion Brignal||[[Sybil Gordon]]||Marjorie Flinn
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|Ruth||Miss Lindsay||Miss Murray/[[Amy Augarde]]||Mary Athol||Murielle Barron||Maysie Dean
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!Role!!D'Oyly Carte<br />1948 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 173</ref>!!D'Oyly Carte<br />1958 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 183</ref>!!D'Oyly Carte<br />1966 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, 2nd Supplement, p. 13</ref>!!D'Oyly Carte<br />1975 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, 3rd Supplement, p. 28</ref>!!D'Oyly Carte<br />1982 Tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, 4th Supplement, p. 42</ref>
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|Robin Oakapple||[[Martyn Green]]||[[Peter Pratt]]||[[John Reed (actor)|John Reed]]||[[John Reed (actor)|John Reed]]||Peter Lyon
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|Richard Dauntless||[[Leonard Osborn]]||[[Leonard Osborn]]||David Palmer||[[Meston Reid]]||[[Meston Reid]]
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|Sir Despard||[[Richard Watson (singer)|Richard Watson]]||[[Kenneth Sandford]]||[[Kenneth Sandford]]||[[Kenneth Sandford]]||[[Kenneth Sandford]]
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|Old Adam||[[L. Radley Flynn]]||John Banks||[[George Cook (opera singer)|George Cook]]||Jon Ellison||Michael Buchan
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|Sir Roderic||[[Darrell Fancourt]]||[[Donald Adams]]||[[Donald Adams]]||[[John Ayldon]]||[[John Ayldon]]
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|Rose Maybud||Margaret Mitchell||Jean Barrington||Ann Hood||[[Julia Goss]]||Jill Washington
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|Mad Margaret||Pauline Howard||[[Joyce Wright]]||[[Peggy Ann Jones]]||Judi Merri||Lorraine Daniels
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|Dame Hannah||[[Ella Halman]]||[[Ann Drummond-Grant]]||[[Christene Palmer]]||[[Lyndsie Holland]]||[[Patricia Leonard]]
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|Zorah||Muriel Harding||[[Mary Sansom]]||Jennifer Marks||Anne Egglestone||Jane Stanford
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|Ruth||[[Joyce Wright]]||Beryl Dixon||[[Pauline Wales]]||Marjorie Williams||Helene Witcombe
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