The Gondoliers (2019)

Gilbert & Sullivan's
The Gondoliers
(or, The King of Barataria)

February 22 & 23 and March 1 & 2, 2019 at 8pm
February 24 and March 3, 2019 at 2pm

Directed by Catherine Huntress-Reeve
Music Directed by Joseph Sorge

Performances take place at
F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre
603 Edmonston Dr. Rockville, MD 20851

Box Office

Phone: 240-314-8690

Hours: Tuesday-Saturday (2p.m. - 7 p.m.) & 2 hours before every
ticketed performance.

Tickets: Adults $28 / Seniors (65+) $24 / Students $20

Cast

The Duke of Plaza Toro - Bob Gudauskus
Luiz - George B. Perry
Don Alhambra de Bolero - Blair Eig
Marco Palmieri - Rishabh Bajekal
Giuseppe Palmieri - Jacob Mason
Antonio - Tom Goode
Giorgio - David Jeffrey
Anibale - Joshua Milton
Duchess of Plaza Toro - Jenellen Fischer
Casilda - Claudia Finsaas
Gianetta - Keely Borland
Tessa - Amanda Jones
Fiametta - Leanne Estabrook
Vittoria - Anabel Milton*
Giulia - Stevie Miller**
Inez - Cheryl Stafford

Ensemble - Ron Anzalone, Stephanie Desjardins, Alice Drew, Lena Goldweber, Chuck Howell, Rand Huntzinger, Ralph Johnson, Carlton Maryott, Joshua Milton, Mariela Palencia, Deborah Peetz, Bill Rogers, Maureen Roult, Rusty Suter, Caleb Thomas, Elizabeth Thomas***, Ed Vilade, Maria Wison, Michael Wolyniec, Kent Woods.

*Tessa cover
**Casilda cover
***Gianetta cover

Production Staff

Producers - Denise Young & Bill Rogers
Assistant Director - Helen Aberger
Assistant Music Director - Amy Broadbent
Stage Manager - Doug Maryott
Lighting Designer - Matthew Bailey
Set Design - Bill Pressly
Costume Design - Denise Young
Hair & Makeup Design - Maureen Roult
Properties Design - Carl Maryott & Jane Maryott
Master Carpenter - Bill Rogers
Rehearsal Pianists - Ross Capon & Judy Gardner

Synopsis

Marco and Giuseppi Palmieri, rock stars among gondoliers, are adored by the young women of Venice, and have finally decided to select two as their brides. Returning from their nuptials, they encounter the mysterious Grand Inquisitor Don Alhambra del Bolero, who tells the astonished couples that one of the new husbands is actually the new King of the far-away isle of Barataria, stolen from his father’s court in babyhood. Unfortunately, the infant was brought up by a drunken gondolier, so no one knows which groom is the King, and which is the old gondolier’s own son. Don Alhambra, no fool, deliberately neglects to tell the newlywed couples that the King (whichever he is) was married in infancy to baby Casilda (daughter of the impoverished Duke of Plaza Toro) whose parents have brought her to Venice to claim her royal husband. The arranged marriage makes the new King a bigamist, and also threatens to destroy the happiness of Casilda and her love, Luis. The enterprising Don Alhambra sends for the only person who knows which young man is which, and everyone takes ship for Barataria, where the rightful King will be identified, and the young couples will learn their fates.

Musical Selections

Act I

List and learn (Fiametta, Francesco, Giorgio, Vittoria, Guiulia, Antonio, Contadine, Gondoliers)
From the sunny Spanish shore (Duke, Duchess, Casilda, Luiz)
In enterprise of martial kind (Duke, Duchess, Casilda, Luiz)
O rapture, when alone together (Casilda, Luiz)
There was a time (Casilda, Luiz)

I stole the prince (Don Alhambra, Duke, Duchess, Casilda, Luiz)
But, bless my heart (Casilda, Don Alhambra)
Try we life-long (Duke, Duchess, Casilda, Luiz, Don Alhambra)
Bridegroom and bride (Contadine, Gondoliers, Tessa)
Kind sir, you cannot have the heart (Ensemble)

Act II