Friday night began the run of Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience from the Light Opera Theatre in Sacramento.
Conductor: Anne-Marie Endres
Director: Debbie Baad
Poets
Reginald Bunthorne (A Fleshly Poet) — Charlie BaadArchibald Grosvenor (An Idyllic Poet) — Timothy Power
Rapturous Maidens
The Lady Angela — Paige KellyThe Lady Saphir — Rhonda Thomas
The Lady Saphir — Jadi Galloway
The Lady Ella — Franchesca Sonoyama
The Lady Jane — Tiffany Patterson
Patience (A Dairy Maid) — Kate Murphy
Officers of Dragoon Guards
Colonel Calverley — Michael BaadMajor Murgatroyd — Kevin Branson
Major Murgatroyd — Roy Domoe Lieut.
The Duke of Dunstable — Anthony Tavianini
This show is all about outfits. Dress like people from ancient England, and you will be perceived as a poet and adored. Dress like a modern person, and you will disappear into the crowd. Suitable young women pay no attention to the suitable young men in the Dragoon Guards and instead go off pining after silly poets in old fashioned outfits. The young women wear old fashioned outfits too and sigh and moan. There are patter songs. Irrelevant names are tossed about. Francesca da Rimini.
Before this appeared in my inbox, I had no idea it existed. It is fun. Try to see it.
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