WWII musicals in area

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A RECENT article in your paper about the Riverland Musical Society's production of The Mikado reminded me of the Gilbert and Sullivan operats staged in the two local picture theatres in World War II.
For some years, Miss Jean Peterson, a teacher at Glossop High School, trained her choir of students to present, first of all, The Pirates of Penzance and later The Gondoliers and The Mikado.
These performances would possibly have been the first occasion many locals had heard the works of William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, who had been composing them since the late 1880s.
As one of the 'leaving class’ girls in 1943, I had to be costumed as a male pirate, because most of the leaving class boys were either too shy to join the cast or too few in numbers to fill the chorus line.
I would be interested to hear from anyone who still remembers participating in those shows that graced the stages of the Berri and Barmera theatres almost 70 years ago.
DAPHNE CLARK
Balaklava

Ed: Anyone who can help Daphne is asked to phone or email Paul Mitchell at The Murray Pioneer (8586 6603 or editor@murraypioneer.com.au).