2019-2020 Season

The Queen's Lace Handkerchief
By Johann Strauss, Jr.
September 6-8, 2019
​F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, Rockville, MD

Presented in semi-staged concert with dialogue and live orchestra
​Directed by Kathleen Alvania
Music Directed by Joseph Sorge

Political intrigue. Love triangles. Pie. Everything you could ask for in a comic operetta! In this story about the thrill of competition and the joy of play, the Prime Minister of Portugal and the rabble-rousing poet Cervantes jockey for power over the throne, while the king and queen are preoccupied with affairs of the heart. Don’t miss this rarely performed gem by Johann Strauss, Jr!
Little Red's Most Unusual Day
An Opera For Children
Music by Offenbach and Rossini
Words and story adaptation by John Davies

Saturday, October 26 and November 2 at 11am and 2pm
Sunday, October 27 and November 3 at 1pm and 3pm
The Arts Barn, 311 Kent Square Road, Gaithersburg MD 20878

In partnership with Arts On the Green
Directed by Mary Frances Dini
Music Directed by Stevie Miller

In this operatic retelling of a classic fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood recounts the events of the day she went to visit her granny. Who knew the series of unfortunate events that would happen that day, including her granny kissing a wolf, Forest Ranger Dudley losing his pants, and Little Red getting in trouble. This performance is a great introduction to opera for children of all ages.
Brides and Mothers / Cox and Box
A Double Bill and WORLD PREMIERE
Wehymeyer & Pflueger / Burnand & Sullivan 

Fully staged performance
November 9 & 10, 2019
Montgomery College, Silver Spring, MD
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The Forgotten Opera Company (Victorian Lyric Opera’s contemporary arm) presents a double bill of Arthur Sullivan’s Cox & Box and the world premiere of a new one-act opera, Brides and Mothers, composed by D.C. native Sean Pflueger with libretto by Laura Wehrmeyer Fuentes. A relatable character study for the 21st century, Brides and Mothers looks at the complexity of mother/daughter relationships from a new angle. Sean and Laura’s previous collaboration, Do Not Disturb, was praised as “wonderfully witty.” Brides and Mothers, their third operatic collaboration, is poised to be a modern-day classic. Juxtaposing Brides’ all female cast, Arthur Sullivan’s Cox & Box provides FOC’s men the chance to shine. Doused in all the charm and humor you’ve come to expect from Sullivan’s work, this little-known gem will leave you in stitches.
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The Pirates of Penzance
by Gilbert & Sullivan
Fully staged performance with live orchestra
February 21, 22, 28, & 29, 2020 at 8PM
February 23* & March 1, 2020 at 2PM

F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, Rockville, MD 
Directed by Amy Sullivan
Music Directed by Joseph Sorge
*Community Outreach Matinee: Backstage tours starting at 12:45pm before the show and a post-show talk-back session with cast and crew.​​

Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved comic opera tells the story of Frederic, a boy mistakenly apprenticed to a softhearted band of pirates when his hard-of-hearing nurse is told to take him to a ship’s pilot. When his apprenticeship comes to its end, Frederic leaves the pirate ship and promptly falls in love with a Major-General’s daughter Mabel. Just as he starts planning for his future, the pirates return to inform Frederic that since his birthday falls on leap day, he still has another 63 years of apprenticeship left before he’s of age. The score features many of Gilbert and Sullivan’s wittiest and most engaging tunes, including the immortal “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General" and "Poor Wand'ring One."
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El Capitan
by John Philip Sousa
Fully staged performance with live orchestra
June 12, 13, 19, & 20, 2020 at 8PM
June 14* & 21, 2020 at 2PM
 
​F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, Rockville, MD
Directed by Catherine Huntress-Reeve
Music Directed by Joseph Sorge
*Community Outreach Matinee: Backstage tours starting at 12:45pm before the show and a post-show talk-back session with cast and crew.​​

VLOC presents John Philip Sousa's most famous operetta El Capitan, in which Don Errico Medigua, the Spanish colonial viceroy of 16th-century Peru, fears assassination by rebels. Medigua had secretly engaged the fearsome warrior El Capitan to come to his defense, but learns that the ferocious mercenary has unfortunately died en route. Medigua then disguises himself as El Capitan, but discovers that the rebels had ALSO engaged the fighter to battle on their behalf, and are eagerly awaiting his arrival. Mayhem ensues. How many viceroys can there be? How does a viceroy acquire a wife AND a fiancee? How can one man lead two armies at the same time? A tale of mistaken identities and love triangles, El Capitan is sure to give you a laugh, and send you on your way whistling some of Sousa's finest tunes.

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3-show bundle for our F. Scott Fitzgerald productions:
The Queen's Lace Handkerchief,
Pirates of Penzance,
and El Capitan
Adults $75, Seniors $65, Students $55 
(Individual ticket prices: Adults $28, Seniors $24, Students $20)

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F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre Box Office Information

Phone: 240-314-8690
Box Office Hours of Operation
Closed Monday 
Tuesday through Saturday 
2 p.m. - 7 p.m.
Open two hours prior to every ticketed performance.

The F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre
Rockville Civic Center
603 Edmonston Dr. Rockville, MD 20851