The 3rd Great Gilbert & Sullivan Sing-Out

Aug. 29-31, 2003

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Trial By Jury

Opened March 25, 1875 at the Royalty Theatre and ran for 300 performances. Hijinks in a courtroom, as the “bride” sues for breach of promise. Trial is the only one act G&S opera, usually played along with another opera.

Conductor - Joseph Sorge
Accompanist - Elizabeth Benefiel
Angelina, the Plaintiff - Denise Young
Edwin, the Defendant - Andrew Loosemore
The Learned Judge - John Barclay Burns
Counsel for the Plaintiff - Barry Hilton
Foreman of the Jury - Peter Zavon
Usher - Larry Garvin

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The Sorcerer

Opened November 7, 1877 at the Opera Comique and ran for 178 performances. With the help of a love philter, everyone in the village is in love – with the wrong person.

Conductor - Catherine Huntress-Reeve
Accompanist - Andi Stryker-Rodda
Aline - Rebecca Consentino Hains
Constance - Rachael Goldman
Mrs. Partlett - Julie Stevens
Lady Sangazure - Jenny Bland
Alexis Poindextre - John Turner
John Wellington Wells - Tyler Hains
Dr. Daly - Jefferson Osborn
Sir Marmaduke Poindextre - David Craven
Notary - Paul Cohen

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Princess Ida (or The Castle Adamant)

Opened on January 5, 1884 at the Savoy Theatre and ran for 246 performances. Princess Ida, engaged in babyhood to Prince Hilarion, has created a women’s university. Hilarion and friends enter the university as women to try to win her back.

Conductor - John Dreslin
Accompanist - Jenny Craley Bland
Princess Ida - Marion Leeds Carroll
Lady Psyche - Pamela Butler
Lady Blanche - Linda Nadeau
Melissa - Gay Freese
Sacharissa - Maureen Roult
Hilarion - Peter Emery
Cyril - Joseph Sorge
Florian - Todd Long
King Gama - Fred Wampler
King Hildebrand - Kent Woods
Arac - Ori Siegel
Guron - Alan Weil
Scynthius - Jim Ferst

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H.M.S. Pinafore (or The Lass That Loved A Sailor)

Opened on May 28, 1878 at the Opera Comique and ran for 571 performances. A common sailor and the captain’s daughter fall in love. The first smash hit G&S Opera, and still one of the most popular.

Conductor - Jenny Craley Bland
Accompanist - John Dreslin
Josephine - Lisa Freese
Little Buttercup - Carole Round
Cousin Hebe - Rusty Suter
Ralph Rackstraw - Pete Krueger
Captain Corcoran - Ed Nealley
Sir Joseph Porter, KCB - Barry Hilton
Dick Deadeye - Charles Sheridan
Boatswain’s Mate - Les Elkins
Carpenter’s Mate - Alan Weil

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The Gondoliers (or The King of Barataria)

Presented by The Washington Savoyards

Opened December 7, 1889 at the Savoy Theatre and ran for 559 performances. Two brothers try to figure out which of them is really the King of Barataria.

Conductor - Ori Siegel
Accompanist - Victorian Gau
Tessa - Karen Rice
Vittoria - Deborah Peetz
Giulia - Gwyn Aubrey
Gianetta - Mary Gresock
Casilda - Alicia Oliver
Fiametta - Becky Henry
Duchess of Plaza Toro - Catherine Huntress-Reeve
Inez - Dyana Neal
Marco Palmieri - David Kozisek
Giuseppe Palmieri - Jim Knost
Don Alhambra del Bolero - Michael Galizia
Duke of Plaza Toro - Scott Kenison
Luiz - Rob Ritter
Antonio - Sean Perry
Giorgio - Blair Eig

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The Grand Duke (or The Statutory Duel)

Opened march 8, 1896 at the Savoy Theatre and ran for 123 performances. Ludwig, an actor, replaces Rudolph, the Grand Duke of Pfennig Halbpfennig after “killing” Rudolph by drawing an Ace in a statutory duel. By assuming all of Rudolph’s obligations, he soon finds himself with far more wives, and prospective wives than he knows what to do with. The last, and the most underrated, of the G&S operas.

Conductor - Larry Garvin
Accompanist - Andi Stryker-Rodda
Rudolph - Philip Sternenberg
Ernest Dummkopf - David Jedlinsky
Ludwig - Sam Silver
Dr. Tannhauser - Dan Kravetz
The Prince of Monte Carlo - Jim Knost
Ben Hashbaz - Kent Woods
Herald - Ed Nealley
Julia Jellicoe - Elise Curran
Lisa - Vicki Willoughby
The Princess of Monte Carlo - Meghan Williams
The Baroness von Krakenfeldt - Andrea Schewe
Olga - Deborah Jacobson
Gretchen - Carol Davis
Bertha - Deborah Peetz
Elsa - Carole Round

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The Mikado (or The Town of Titti-Pu)

Opened March 14, 1885 at the Savoy Theatre and ran for 672 performances. The most popular G&S opera, Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner of Titti-Pu must actually execute someone or see his town reduced to the rank of a village. He finds a volunteer in Nanki-Poo, the Mikado’s son, who loves Ko-Ko’s ward, Yum-Yum, but is it a good idea to compass the death of the heir apparent?

Conductor - Catherine Huntress-Reeve
Accompanist - John Dreslin
Yum-Yum - Elizabeth Evans Emery
Pitti-Sing - Dawn Snyder
Peep-Bo - Marisa Green
Katisha - Linda Nadeau
Nanki-Poo - Peter Emery
Ko-Ko - Micahel Galizia
Pooh-Bah - Gordon Brigham
Mikado - Blair Eig
Pish-Tush - Todd Allen Long

Ruddigore (or The Witch's Curse)

Opened January 22, 1887 at the Savoy Theatre and ran for 288 performances. A witch’s curse has long-lasting effects on the Murgatroyd family and the village of Reddering.

Conductor - Ori Siegel
Accompanist - Victoria Gau
Rose Maybud - Lisa Freese
Mad Margaret - Diana Fortuna
Dame Hannah - Leta Hall
Zorah - Gaye Freese
Robin Oakapple/Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd - Todd Allen Long
Dick Dauntless - David Jedlinsky
Old Adam - Jim Ferst
Sir Despard Murgatroyd - Gordon Brigham
Sir Roderic Murgatroyd - David Craven

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Iolanthe (or The Peer and the Peri)

Presented by The Victorian Lyric Opera Company

Opened November 25, 1882 at the Savoy Theatre (the first to do so) and ran for 398 performances. Fairies get involved in Parliament to help one of their own win his true love.

Conductor - Joseph Sorge
Accompanist - Jenny Craley Bland
Iolanthe - Elaine Dalbo
Phyllis - Pamela Butler
Fairy Queen - Dyana Neal
Celia - Lisa Freese
Leila - Deborah Jacobson
Strephon - Rob Ritter
Lord Chancellor - Michael Galizia
Lord Tolloller - Jim Knost
Lord Mountararat - Ira Haber
Private Willis - Julio Martinez

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The Pirates of Penzance (or The Slave of Duty)

Opened December 31, 1879 at the Fifth Avenue Theater in New York with Arthur Sullivan conducting and on April 3, 1880 at the Opéra Comique and ran for 363 performances. A February 29th birthday spells trouble for young Frederic, the only young man ever who didn’t want to be a pirate.

Conductor - John Dreslin
Accompanist - Andi Stryker-Rodda
Mabel - Denise Young
Edith - Jaime Kurtz
Kate - Wendy Falconer
Ruth - Christine Osborn
Frederic - Philip Bender
Pirate King - Tyler Hains
Major General Stanley - John Perine
Sergeant of Police - Lyle Jaffe
Samuel - Les Elkins

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Patience (or Bunthorne’s Bride)

Opened April 23, 1881 at the Opera Comique and ran for 578 performances at both the Opera Comique and Savoy Theatres. Country ladies are in love with two poets, while the poets are both in love with Patience, the village milkmaid. The brigade men don’t see the point of aestheticism, but decide they had better give it a try to win back the women’s love.

Conductor - Jenny Craley Bland
Accompanist - Larry Garvin
Patience - Elise Curran
Lady Jane - Dawn Snyder
Lady Angela - Frances Yasprica
Lady Saphir - Leta Hall
Lady Ella - Emelyn Pagel
Reginald Bunthorne - John Perine
Archibald Grosvenor - Rob Ritter
Colonel Calverley - Ira Haber
Major Murgatroyd - Andrew Loosemore
Lieut. The Duke of Dunstable - Joseph Sorge

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Utopia, Limited (or The Flowers of Progress)

Opened October 7, 1893 at the Savoy Theatre and ran for 245 performances. The South Sea island of Utopia remodels itself after that model of perfection – England.

Conductor - Victoria Gau
Accompanist - Andi Stryker-Rodda
Princess Zara - Rebecca Consentino Hains
Princess Nekaya - Deborah Jacobson
Princess Kalyba - Many Jacobson
Lady Sophy - Catherine Huntress-Reeve
Phylla - Meghan Williams
King Paramount - David Craven
Captain Fitzbattleaxe - Philip Bender
Lord Dramaleigh - Fred Wampler
Mr. Goldbury - David Jedlinsky
Mr. Blushington - Joseph Sorge
Sir Bailey-Barre - Shawn Perry
Captain Sir Edward Corcoran, KCB - Peter Zavon
Scaphio - Larry Garvin
Phantis - Phil Sternenberg
Tarara - Sam Silvers

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Yeomen of the Guard

Opened October 3, 1888 at the Savoy Theatre and ran for 423 performances. At the Tower of London jester Jack Point loses his love, Elsie Maynard to Colonel Fairfax – who nearly loses his head. This is the G&S opera that is considered the closest to grand opera.

Conductor - Larry Garvin
Accompanist - John Dreslin
Elsie Maynard - Denise Young
Phoebe Meryll - Kiersten Drumm
Dame Carruthers - Dyana Neal
Kate - Rosanne DellAversano
Jack Point - John Barclay Burns
Colonel Fairfax - Peter Emery
Sergeant Meryll - Sam Silvers
Wilfred Shadbolt - Michael Galizia
Leonard Meryll - Shawn Perry
Sir Richard Cholmondeley - Dan Kravetz
First Yeoman - Bob Green
Second Yeoman - Sol Abrams

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Sing Out Chorus

Lillian Abrams
John Baesch
Stephanie Brigham
Ed Byrdy
Thomas Drucker
Fran Fleming
Tom Fuchs
Jim Goldfrank
Tom Goode
Victoria Goode
Richard Gorbutt
Ron Henry
Jim Hummel
Donna Jaffe
Sylvan Kesilman
Randi Kestin
Arthur Koykka

Jean Koykka
Hannah Lieberman
Michaela Lieberman
Katie Long
Aroostine McDowell Long
Ralph MacPhail
Ellie Meadowcroft
Kate Nealley
Jim Noone
William O'Donnell
Ezra Peisach
John Phipps
Sandy Rovner
Cassandra Stevens
Becky Tassone
Jack Yanovski
Susan Yanovski

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Schedule for the Weekend

Friday, Aug. 29, 2003

5:30 pm - Registration & Reception

• Trial By Jury
• The Sorcerer
  
• Princess Ida
  

Saturday, Aug. 30, 2003 

8 am - Registration & Breakfast

• H.M.S. Pinafore
• The Gondoliers
  

Break for Lunch
1 pm

• The Grand Duke
  
• The Mikado
  

Break for Dinner
7 pm

• Ruddigore
• Iolanthe
  
• The Pirates of Penzance

Sunday, Aug. 31, 2003

8:30 am - Breakfast

• Patience
• Utopia, Limited
  
• The Yeomen of the Guard