Amy Augarde

Amy Florence Augarde (7 July 1868 – 1 April 1959) was an English actress and singer in musical theatre and operetta.

She performed in Gilbert and Sullivan operas and other works for Richard D'Oyly Carte in the US, England and elsewhere before playing roles in such successful musical theatre works as Dorothy, The Little Michus and The Chocolate Soldier in London.

Augarde first appeared on stage in 1884, when she was fifteen, winning a place in the chorus of one of Richard D'Oyly Carte's British touring companies.

In 1885 and 1886 she was in the United States with Carte's American company playing The Mikado, and then joined the chorus of his tour of Germany and Austria.

She went on to appear in many successful musicals and operettas in London, including long runs in The Little Michus (1905 to 1906), The Chocolate Soldier (1910 to 1911), Shell Out (1915 to 1916),[5] Nobody's Boy (1919),[6] and The Naughty Princess (1920 to 1921).