We are getting excited that Patience is opening so soon! And we have another cast interview in hopes of getting you excited, too - please welcome Dave Robinson!

Name
Dave Robinson

What's your role in Patience?
Ensemble

What made you decide to get involved with Patience?
I've done other shows with VLOC and they are a fun and capable group. Shows keep me entertained and force me to memorize much.

What are you enjoying most about working on Patience with VLOC?
G&S is always clever and interesting music. Fun people and a challenging process.

What is your dream role/job?
Herr Scholtz in Cabaret and the Padre in Man of LaMancha

What is the first musical/opera/play you ever saw and what effect did it have on you?
That is far to way back.

When you're not performing in community theatre, what do you do? (job, hobby, family, etc.)
Swimming, cycling, skiing, travel, ballroom dancing and family.

Thank you, Dave! Tickets are going quickly for Patience, so grab yours today - call the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre box office at 240-314-8690 or purchase online HERE.

We are excited to kick off our cast interview series for Patience with a name familiar to pretty much everyone at VLOC - costumer, producer, soprano, and jack-of-all-trades extraordinaire, Denise Young!

Name
Denise Young

What's your role in Patience?
The Lady Jane

What made you decide to get involved with Patience?
I feel a certain affinity with Jane as I, too, am "stouter than I used to be" and have silvering raven hair. This is one of only two Gilbert & Sullivan shows that I've not appeared in on stage, and this seemed a perfect time to add this one to the list.

What are you enjoying most about working on Patience with VLOC?
The piece itself is delightfully wacky. Fraudulent aesthetes, sincere aesthetes and the most poetic and articulate of the bunch is the dairymaid. I think Jane falls into the somewhat fraudulent category. She's taken on the role of aesthetic maiden but she's a realist.

What is your dream role/job?
My dream role is still Lucia di Lammermoor, though I'm far too old to actually sing her on stage.

What is the first musical/opera/play you ever saw and what effect did it have on you?
I guess it started with the TV broadcast of Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella. I've been in love with musical theater since then and became active in high school. Then developed a love of opera when I saw the first Met broadcast of La Bohème.

When you're not performing in community theatre, what do you do? (job, hobby, family, etc.)
Banker by day and opera singer by night.

Thank you, Denise! Tickets are on sale for Patience now and are going quickly, so scoop yours up today, and don't miss Denise and the rest of this wonderful cast bringing this G&S favorite to life! Call the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre box office at 240-314-8690 or get your tickets online HERE. Patience runs June 8 - 17, so we hope to see you then!

Patience is, of course, known as a Gilbert & Sullivan opera. But did you also know that there's a movie version of Patience?

Indeed there is! In fact, there are two! Opera Australia made a movie version of Patience in 1995 with Christine Douglas in the title role. Although it got excellent reviews, it does not appear to be easily available for viewing.

The second movie was made in the UK in 1982 and was based on a production done by the English National Opera (formerly Sadler's Wells Opera). This version is available on DVD through Amazon. 

Have you seen a movie version of Patience? We'd love to know about it!

Tickets for VLOC's production of Patience are available now through the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre box office (240-314-8690) and online HERE. We hope to see you at one of the shows!