Gilbert & Sullivan's
Patience

​June 8, 9, 15, & 16 at 8:00pm
June 10 & 17 at 2:00pm
​fully staged with live orchestra

Directed by Felicity Ann Brown
Music Directed by Joseph Sorge

Adults $28 / Seniors (65+) $24 / Students $20
Opening night special! All tickets $14 for the June 8th performance

Special Events!

Backstage Tours
Sunday, June 10th from 12:45pm-1:30pm
Get a sneak peak into all of the hard work that goes into making our operetta productions, with a backstage tour that will let you see the set, costumes, props, and orchestra up close!  Meet us in the lobby, and one of our company members will show you around!

Talk-back with the Cast & Crew
Sunday, June 10th immediately following the show
Ever wanted to ask the director a question? Ever wanted to meet a performer?  Meet us in the lobby for a Q&A session with some of the cast and production team immediate following the performance.

Press
DCMetroTheaterArts' review of Patience (2018)
The Sentinel's review of Patience (2018)
TheatreBloom's review of Patience (2018)

​Victorian Poetry Readings
Saturday, June 9th &  16th  at 7pm
In Victorian times, poets were revered for their ability to transcend commonplace existence with flights of inspirational verse.  They enjoyed enormous popularity and were in many ways the Rock Stars of their day.   That popularity made them ripe for satire, and Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience lampoons both their adulation and the substance of their work.  Gilbert created a poet, Reginald Bunthorne, who is idolized for his rapturous, aesthetic verses, and sets him against a composer of popular moralistic verses, Archibald Grosvenor.  Patience contains parodies of both of these styles of poetry.  

To enhance the appreciation of these Patience parodies, we will provide our Saturday audiences with the opportunity to hear some actual examples of  Victorian poetry.  Prior to each Saturday evening performances of Patience, we will present a brief poetry reading featuring the works of Oscar Wilde, an aesthetic poet who was rising to fame just as Patience was being produced.  We also will include some moralistic poems and the clever parodies made of them by Lewis Carroll and others.  Please join us to be transported to a higher plain of aesthetic consciousness or merely to a state of hilarity by our team of talented readers!

See a sneak peek!
​Watch us go from sitzprobe to dress rehearsal.

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Cast

Patience, A Dairy Maid - Robin Steitz 
Reginald Bunthorne, A Fleshly Poet - Rick DuPuy
Archibald Grosvenor, An Idyllic Poet - Kevin Schellhase
The Lady Jane - Denise Young
The Lady Angela - Katelyn Neumann
The Lady Saphir - Rebecca Poyatt
The Lady Ella - Genevieve Japinga
Colonel Calverley - Jim Knost
Major Murgatroyd - Michael Beder
Lieut. the Duke of Dunstable - Bob Gudauskas

Chorus of Rapturous Maidens and Dragoon Guards
Nicole Cherecwich, Claire Gelilli, Tara Hockensmith,
Rand Huntzinger, Ralph Johnson, Carlton Maryott,
Christina Massimei, Joshua Milton, Monica Rajan, Dave Robinson,
​Bill Rogers, Sarah Seider, Maria Wilson, Michael Wolyniec, Kent Woods

Production Staff

Producers - Bill Rogers & Denise Young
Assistant to the Director - Douglas Maryott
Choreographer - Jackie Rogers
Technical Director - Bill Rogers
Set Design - Bill Pressly
Costume Design - Denise Young
Hair & Makeup Design - Maureen Roult
Properties - Carlton & Jane Maryott