Gilbert & Sullivan's
The Yeomen of the Guard

July 11, 12 & 13, 1985 at 8pm
July 13 & 14, 1985 at 3pm

Directed & Music Directed by Nicholas G. Armstrong

Performing Arts Center
Montgomery College Campus
Rockville, MD.

Funded in part by a grant from the Montgomery County Arts Council

Cast

Sir Richard Cholmondely, Lieutenant of the Tower - Ken Krantz
Colonel Fairfax, under sentence of death - Erich Parker
Sergeant Meryll, of the Yeomen of the Guard - Maxwilliam Brown
Leonard Meryll, his son - Robert Kimball
Jack Point, a Strolling Jester - John Perine
Wilfred Shadbolt, Head Jailer and Assistant Tormenter - Brian Burke
The Headman - Thomas Jahrling
First Yeoman - Michael Chesboro
Second Yeoman - Lyle Jaffe
First Citizen - Andrew Kirk
Second Citizen - Jeffery Sugarman
Elsie Maynard, a Strolling Singer - Linda Kirk
Phoebe Meryll, Sergeant Meryll's daughter - Fay Lyle
Dane Carruthers, Housekeeper of the Tower - Dolores Leal Lurito
Kate, her Niece - Laura Hubbard

Chorus of Yeomen of the Guard, Gentlemen, Citizens, etc. 
Donna Adler, Darlene Allen, John Anderson, Dee Carlstrom, Robert
Carlstrom, Laura Cline, Marsha Diakova, Fran Fleming, Thomas Fuchs, Barry Grinnell, Caleb Hathaway, Patricia Hintze, Fred Houghteling, James Hummell, David Jackson, Chris Larson, Mark Lindeman, Edith Livingstone, Angie Lorenzo, Penny Lubarsky, Mary Sue Merritt, Steve Riedesell, Shirley Santilhano, Judith Sapon, Elin Schilling, Charles Sheridan, Marc Silinsky, Jenny Tapper, William Tuthill, Elizabeth Ziese.

Understudies:
    Elsie Maynard - Elizabeth Ziese
    Dame Carruthers - Darlene Allen

Production Staff

Producers - Marion Scodari, Lyle Jaffe
Set Design - Jeffery C. Sugarman
Lighting Design - Christopher Verdi
Costume Design - Mary Sue Merritt
Choreography - Dee Carlstrom
Assistant to the Director - Ben Hawley
Stage Manager/Technical Director - Gil Thompson
Pianists - Benjamin Hawley, Al Neumann, Melanie Smith
Costume Construction - Mary Sue Merritt
        Assisted by - Donna Adler, Edith Livingston, Laura Hubbard,
                    Caroline Hummel, Ann K. Kessler, Penny Lubarsky,
                    Margaret Perine, Marion Scodari, Elizabeth Ziese
Set Construction - David Jackson
         Assisted by - Dennis Jelal ian, Chris Heiler, Chris Verdi
Lighting Assistant - Ken Harsh
Make-up and Hair Design - Jon Rilfy
         Assisted by - Judy Burke, Pamela Grady
Orchestra Manager - Tom Fuchs
Poster - Dot Laong
Propmaster - David Jackson
Refreshment Manager - Rosalie Santilhano
Tickets - Caroline and Jim HuiTilel
House Manager - Lyle Jaffe
Publicity, Public Relations - Ruth Burdette, Marion Scodari
        Assisted by - Donna Adler, Barry Grinnell, Pat Hintze, Lyle Jaffe
Program - James Hummel, Marion Scodari
Set and Costume Storage - Mr. & Mrs. Al Rupel
Photography - Tom Fuchs

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Program Note

Gilbert was quite nervous on opening night of Yeomen, fearing that the audience would not accept the succession of serious moments with which the show begins. Consequently, in a fit of self-doubt, he cut an outstanding song for Sergeant Meryll which was appropriate in mood to the scene. As in our
1980 Yeomen,  this song has been restored in this production.

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Synopsis

Phoebe Meryll is in love with Colonel Fairfax who is scheduled to be beheaded tor "dealings with the devil," a charge which has been perpetrated by a relative who will inherit the Colonel's fortune. The Colonel wishes to deprive his heir of the inheritance "by marrying forthwith" so the Lieutenant of the
Tower induces a strolling singing-girl, Elsie Maynard, to consent to the brief marriage by the offer of an hundr-ed crowns, badly
needed by Elsie to buy medicine for her ailing mother.

Fairfax escapes from prison with the help of Phoebe who weedles the keys away from Wilfred, the Jailer. Sergeant Meryll introduces the escaped Fairfax as his son Leonard who has just returned from the wars. Jack Point who is in love with Elsie, concocts a plan with the jailer which convinces the townspeople that the escaped criminal was shot in the head as he tried to swim across the river. Now that Fairfax is dead, Elsie is free to marry again but Point's marriage proposal is interrupted by Leonard (the disguised Fairfax) who proceeds to demonstrate the art of wooing and tn so doing wins the hand of Elsie tor himself. Supposing him to be Leonard, Elsie accepts his hand in marriage much to Phoebe's distress. Their implication in the escape having been discovered by Wilfred and Dame Carruthers, Phoebe and the Sergeant agree to marry their long-time admirers in return tor their silence.

On the day of Elsie's wedding to the supposed Leonard the delayed reprieve arrives. Fairfax is now free to claim his bride which plunges Elsie into despair until she recognizes him to be her be loved Leonard. All is set tor a happy ending when the disconsolate Jack Point appears on the scene. The loss of Elsie is too much for him to bare and he falls senseless at her feet as the curtain closes.