Dolly Castles

Dolly Castles as Phyllis "Iolanthe" Gilbert & Sullivan

Dolly Castles
(Ethel Castles)
1884-1971
Australian Soprano

She was born in Bendigo, she appeared for several seasons with the J,C, Williamson Company and made her way to America where she appeared as the principal soprano in the first production of the musical The Tik-Tok Man of Oz, based on the OZ books of L. Frank Baum (music by Louis Gottschalk), which was shown in Los Angeles on 31 March 1913. She retired from the stage after World War 1,
In Australia she appeared in the original Australian cast of the J.C. Williamson’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Utopia Limited as The Princess Zara at the Princess Theatre which premiered on January 20, 1905 and which closed after 18 performances. She was in the credits for a revival of The Sorcerer produced at the Criterion Theatre in Sydney in December 1905 and also in the Sydney 1905 season where she was in the revival of the title role of Princess Ida.