HAODS - For the best entertainment in live theatre, together with top quality drama - amdram at its best, Henley Operatic & Dramatic Society has it all. Performing at the Kenton Theatre, Henley-on-Thames, NODA award winning HAODS musicals and plays are renowned for excellence.

HODS (as HAODS was then known) performed their first production - The
Mikado - at the Kinema in Bell Street on May 2nd, 3rd and 4th 1922.

Ticket prices were
Reserved 5/9 and 3/6 Unreserved 2/4 and 1/3
Approx £12 and £9 £5
and £3 at todays prices.

Proceeds were in aid of the Henley
College Hospital

The joint secretaries of the society were Mr Lloyd
and Mr Rabett

CAST

The MIkado - Mr Phillip Pearce Katisha
- Mrs Phillip Pearce
Ko-Ko - Mr Lloyd
Pooh Bah - Mr Rabett
Pish Tush - Mr Foale
Nanki Pooh - Mr Habgood
Three Little Maids - Miss D.M. Robins, Mrs
Fisher-Brown, Miss Burnett
Sword Bearer - Master R.P. Walden
Guards - Mr F.V.King, Mr A. Haigh

LADIE'S CHORUS MEN'S CHORUS

Miss Ella Froude Mrs CJW Rabette Mr Willson
Mr SW Green
Mrs AH Skinner Mrs GW Beams Mr LG Wilkinson
Mr JP Brown
Mrs WV Sloan Miss VM Saunders Mr HJW Redford
Mr OW King
Miss E Muttaugh Miss VE Wilson Mr WV Sloan
Mr ES Wood
Miss CE Shapland Miss VN Robins Mr JWC Read
Mr GW Beams
Miss M Springbett Mr
AN Other Mr CL Grugoon

Producer - Mr Manners Little
Musical Director - Mr Skinner
Accompanist - Mrs AC Foale

A report in the Henley and South Oxfordshire Standard suggested that the
society had been formed without funds. Two large advertisements were
published (front page) on
April 21st and April 28th.

The above by Bill Port

Sheelagh wilson submitted the originals of the Mikado photographs which can be found on our gallery page here, Sheelagh corrected the date of the photos, they are in fact from the very first Mikado show in 1922. Sheelagh's note reads: "The note which my late father, Frederick King, left with the Mikado photos is as follows:

'The Mikado - First of any performance in the local cinema.  Presented by the new Henley-on-Thames Operatic Society in about February 1922. The five shows were crowded to the full and scores of people had to be turned away, if they had no tickets, on the Saturday night."

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