A Gilbert & Sullivan Drawing Room (2001)

Stanley German's
A Gilbert & Sullivan Drawing Room

Sept. 6, 7 & 8, 2001 at 8pm
Sept. 8 & 9, 2001 at 2pm

Directed by Todd Allen Long
Music Directed by Joseph Sorge

Cast

Jenny Bland
John Barclay Burns
Blair Eig
Lisa Freese
Gaye Freese
Richard Garbutt
Ira Haber
Leta Hall
Barry Hilton

Deborah Jacobson
Julio Martinez
Debbie Peetz
Andrea Schewe
Joseph Sorge
Kent Woods
Denise Young

VLOC Appreciates...

Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, Montgomery Playhouse,
Ceil Rodgers, Frank DeSando, St. John's (Norwood) Episcopal
Church, Silver Spring Stage, Quade Winter, and everyone else
who helped make this production possible.

Production Team

Producers - Lisa Freese, Denise Young
Assistant to the Stage Director - Julie Stevens
Accompanists - Jenny Craley Bland, Elizabeth Benefiel, Gay Hill, Deborah Jacobson
Set Designer - David Smith
Lighting Designer /Light Board Operator - Kerry Freese
Spot Operator - Julia L. Utley
Stage Manager - Kerry Freese, Julie Stevens
Props Committee - The Cast
Technical Crew - Ed Byrdy, Tony Dwyer, Les Elkins, William Kolodrubetz, Lawrence Lee, Caetano Ordonez, Steve Mager, Julie Stevens
Set builders and painters - VLOC and friends
Costumers - Gaye Freese, Lisa Freese, Andrea Schewe, Denise Young
Make-up - Renee Silverstone
Program - Leta Hall
House Managers - Barry Grinnell (Sept 9), Caroline & Jim Hummel (Sept 8- evening), Gina Nowacki (Sept 7), Rusty Suter (Sept 6 & Sept 8- matinee)

Director's Note

Dear Friends of VLOC,

Welcome to the premier of A Gilbert & Sullivan Drawing Room and our new, 3-show season format. Lovers of operetta will now have three opportunities a year to see VLOC's quality performances. The season opener runs for one weekend in the fall and is designed to foster growth of performance skills specifically for company members. For this year, we have chosen the original revue by Stanley German that you are about to see. Our 2nd show, Jacques Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne, runs for three weekends in Februruy and continues our tradition of presenting Victorian operettas other than those by Gilbert & Sullivan. Running for two weekends in June is our 3rd show, Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers. We hope that you can join us for all of this exciting season!

With this evening's performance, we will delve far into the world of one of the most famous pairings in musical history, Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, affectionately referred to as G&S. You, as audience members, are to become guests at a dinner party of the fictitious Rockville Victorian Society. The members of the Society, our players, are experts on all things Victorian and G&S aficionados. They have gathered for an evening of food, conversation, and dancing which was popular during the reign of England's Queen Victoria. The women have attended this evening's event attired in costumes reflecting the many styles prevalent during this era from the 1870s through the 1890s. As the Society assembles in the drawing room for the evening's festivities, they quickly realize that their "guests" are not completely familiar with all things Gilbert & Sullivan. Our players then start you on a journey through the engaging lives of the famous pair, using G&S's own words and music to tell the tale. From opening night to opening night, be prepared to hear the behind-the-scenes stories and events that led to the making of some of the most famous music of all time!

Thank you for joining us for this special evening and supporting the arts in Montgomery County!

~Todd Allen Long

Musical Numbers

Act I

Hail, Poetry (The Pirates of Penzance) - Ensemble
First you're born (Utopia, Limited) - John, Barry, Julio
Little maid of Arcadee (Thespis) - Denise
Climbing over rocky mountain (Thespis) - Women, Barry, Deborah, Richard, Debbie
When I, good friends, was called to the bar (Trial By Jury) - Ira & Ensemble
My name is John Wellington Wells (The Sorcerer) - John
Oh joy, oh rapture unforeseen (HMS Pinafore) - Ensemble
Never mind the why and wherefore (Pinafore) - Kent, Ira, Lisa
HMS Pinafore & The Pirates of Penzance Montage - Ensemble
The magnet & the churn (Patience) - Kent & Women
When all night long (Iolanthe) - Julio
Fold your flapping wings (Iolanthe) - Barry
Soon as we may (Iolanthe) - Ensemble
Mighty maiden with a mission (Princess Ida) - Women
Oh, goddess wise (Ida) - Denise

Act II

A more humane Mikado (The Mikado) - Blair
Three little maids from school (Mikado) - Denise, Debbie, Lisa, & Women
I've got a little list (Mikado) - John & Men
The sun whose rays (Mikado) - Lisa
My eyes are fully open (Ruddigore) - Barry, Andrea, Blair
I once was a very abandoned person (Ruddigore) - Blair & Andrea
Oh, a private buffoon (Yeomen ofthe Guard) - John
When maiden loves (Yeomen) - Andrea
For the merriest fellows (The Gondoliers) - Julio & Ensemble
Then one of us will be a queen (Gondoliers) - Lisa, Deborah, Barry, & Ira
Once more gondolieri (Gondoliers) - Ensemble
Society has quite forsaken (Utopia, Limited) - Blair & Men
Had I a son (Grand Duke) - Kent & Ensemble
I hear the soft note (Patience) - Ensemble
The threatened cloud has passed away (Mikado) - Ensemble