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==Historical casting==
The following tables show the most prominent cast members of significant D'Oyly Carte Opera Company productions and tours at various times through to the company's 1982 closure:<ref>Rollins and Witts (and supplements). An examination of Rollins and Witts and Gänzl (1986) shows that cast lists taken at ten-year intervals is sufficient to indicate the bulk of the notable performers who portrayed these roles in authorised productions during that period.</ref>

{|Class="wikitable"
! Role
! Opera Comique<br />1878<ref name=Rollins6>Rollins and Witts, p. 6</ref>
! New York<br />1879<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 32</ref>
! Savoy Theatre<br />1887<ref name=Rollins11 />
! Savoy Theatre<br />1899<ref name=Rollins18 />
! Savoy Theatre<br />1908<ref name=Rollins22 />
|-
|Sir Joseph||[[George Grossmith]]||[[J. H. Ryley]]||George Grossmith||[[Walter Passmore]]||[[Charles H. Workman]]
|-
|Captain Corcoran||[[Rutland Barrington]]||[[Signor Brocolini|Sgr. Brocolini]]||Rutland Barrington||[[Henry Lytton]]||Rutland Barrington
|-
|Ralph Rackstraw|| [[Sir George Power, 7th Baronet|George Power]]||[[Hugh Talbot]]||[[J. G. Robertson]]||[[Robert Evett]]||Henry Herbert
|-
|Dick Deadeye||[[Richard Temple (bass-baritone)|Richard Temple]]||[[J. Furneaux Cook]]||Richard Temple||Richard Temple||[[Henry Lytton]]
|-
|Boatswain/<br />Bill Bobstay||[[Fred Clifton]]||Fred Clifton||Richard Cummings||W. H. Leon||[[Leicester Tunks]]
|-
|Carpenter/<br />Bob Beckett||Aeneas J. Dymott ||Mr. Cuthbert||[[Rudolph Lewis (bass-baritone)|Rudolph Lewis]]||[[Powis Pinder]]||Fred Hewett
|-
|Midshipmite/<br />Tom Tucker||Master Fitzaltamont{{efn|1=The Midshipmite, Tom Tucker, is traditionally played by a child. "Fitzaltamont" was likely a pseudonym used to protect the child's identity, as the same name appears on programmes of several provincial touring companies.<ref name=Rollins6 /> No names are listed for his role in later productions.<!--See refs for each production-->}} || || || ||
|-
|Josephine||[[Emma Howson]]||[[Blanche Roosevelt]]||[[Geraldine Ulmar]]||[[Ruth Vincent]]||[[Elsie Spain]]
|-
|Hebe||[[Jessie Bond]]||Jessie Bond||Jessie Bond||[[Emmie Owen]]||[[Jessie Rose]]
|-
|Buttercup||[[Harriett Everard]]||[[Alice Barnett]]||[[Rosina Brandram]]||Rosina Brandram||[[Louie René]]
|}

{|Class="wikitable"
!Role
!D'Oyly Carte<br />1915 tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 132</ref>
!D'Oyly Carte<br />1925 tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 148</ref>
!D'Oyly Carte<br />1935 tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 160</ref>
!D'Oyly Carte<br />1950 tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 175</ref>
|-
|Sir Joseph||[[Henry Lytton]]||Henry Lytton||[[Martyn Green]]||Martyn Green
|-
|Captain Corcoran||[[Leicester Tunks]]||[[Leo Sheffield]]||[[Leslie Rands]]||[[Richard Watson (singer)|Richard Watson]]
|-
|Ralph Rackstraw||[[Walter Glynne]]||[[Charles Goulding]]||[[John Dean (tenor)|John Dean]]||Herbert Newby
|-
|Dick Deadeye||[[Leo Sheffield]]||[[Darrell Fancourt]]||Darrell Fancourt||Darrell Fancourt
|-
|Boatswain||[[Frederick Hobbs (singer)|Frederick Hobbs]]||Henry Millidge||[[Richard Walker (baritone)|Richard Walker]]||Stanley Youngman
|-
|Carpenter||George Sinclair||Patrick Colbert||[[L. Radley Flynn]]||L. Radley Flynn
|-
|Josephine||Phyllis Smith||[[Elsie Griffin]]||[[Ann Drummond-Grant]]||Muriel Harding
|-
|Hebe||[[Nellie Briercliffe]]||Aileen Davies||[[Marjorie Eyre]]||Joan Gillingham
|-
|Buttercup||[[Bertha Lewis]]||Bertha Lewis||[[Dorothy Gill]]||[[Ella Halman]]
|}

{|Class="wikitable"
!Role
!D'Oyly Carte<br />1958 tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, p. 183</ref>
!D'Oyly Carte<br />1965 tour<ref>Rollins and Witts, 1st Supplement, p. 6</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>
|-
|Sir Joseph||[[Peter Pratt]]||[[John Reed (actor)|John Reed]]||John Reed||[[James Conroy-Ward]]<ref>John Reed played Sir Joseph at some performances during the final London season at the Adelphi Theatre. See Stone, David. [http://gsarchive.net/whowaswho/R/ReedJohn.htm htm John Reed profile] at ''Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company'', 21 August 2006, accessed on 27 April 2009</ref>
|-
|Captain Corcoran||[[Jeffrey Skitch]]||[[Alan Styler]]||[[Michael Rayner]]||Clive Harre
|-
|Ralph Rackstraw||[[Thomas Round]]||David Palmer||[[Meston Reid]]||Meston Reid
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|Dick Deadeye||[[Donald Adams]]||Donald Adams||[[John Ayldon]]||John Ayldon
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|Boatswain||[[George Cook (opera singer)|George Cook]]||George Cook||Jon Ellison||Michael Buchan
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|Carpenter||Jack Habbick||Anthony Raffell||John Broad||Michael Lessiter
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|Josephine||[[Jean Hindmarsh]]||Ann Hood||[[Pamela Field]]||[[Vivian Tierney]]
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|Hebe||[[Joyce Wright]]||[[Pauline Wales]]||[[Patricia Leonard]]||Roberta Morrell
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|Buttercup||[[Ann Drummond-Grant]]||[[Christene Palmer]]||[[Lyndsie Holland]]||[[Patricia Leonard]]
|}
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