Tentative Meeting Schedule, 1999-2000
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Sunday, June 18 |
Election Meeting plus Fantasy performances |
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Sunday, August 27 |
Picnic Meeting plus MIKADO Sing, details TBA |
On Sunday, June 18 at 2:00 PM we’ll gather at the home of Ron and Janice Dallas at 63 Everett St. Arlington, MA for our annual Election of NEGASS Officers. (That should take about five minutes.) We’ll spend the rest of the afternoon living out our Fantasies by singing and playing anything we like from the world of G and/or S, accompanied by the excellent Eric Schwartz. Are you a mezzo who has always longed to sing the Nightmare Song from IOLANTHE? – We have known it done! How about a baritone who longs to sing I’m called Little Buttercup – gee, that’s happened, too! – Or someone who will never be cast in a particular role, or who has sung it but is longing to sing it again – or how about someone who can’t sing, but would like to do a bit of dialogue? - even dialogue from a Gilbert non-musical play! - or a singer who’d like to try a Sullivan art song! Share your fantasies!
HOW TO GET THERE: 63 EVERETT STREET, ARLINGTON, MA (Call 781 643-2537 for more info)
Janice writes Buses from Alewife (#79 and #350) and from Harvard (#77) go up Mass Ave, and from Davis Square (#87) goes up Broadway, to our street. If you walk the bikeway from Alewife Station, get off on Lake St. and turn right to Mass Ave. Take a left on Mass. Ave. and look for the Mass Convenience store, which is at the end of Everett St. We are two houses down from where Raleigh St. crosses Everett, on the right side. It's a 20 minute walk from either Alewife or Davis Square.
After some behind-the-arras machinations, the current Board is ready to announce a recommended slate of new officers. We must announce first that Patricia Brewer, our honored President, has found it necessary to step down from that exalted office under pressure from her new career: After having spend the past several years following and training for her personal fantasy, she is now employed as a nurse. Vice President Don Smith has stepped into her dainty shoes - well, anyway, he’s agreed to take on the title of President, thus opening the way for a re-shuffling of volunteers for other positions. So the Board’s recommended slate runs somewhat thus:
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President Don Smith
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Vice President Jennifer Morris
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Secretary Peter Cameron
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Membership Chair Janice Dallas
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Company Promoter Linda Silverstein
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Hospitality Chair (refreshments) - Carol Mahoney
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And- news flash! -
Program Chair Art Dunlap
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Carl Weggel has also offered to take part as an unofficial Member at Large, available to help out the Company Promoter and the Program Chair as needed.
Clearly, reports of NEGASS’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. (Yes, We know it isn’t – but it’s still a good quote! – mlc)
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The master class led by Eileen St. David, with accompaniment by Eric Schwartz, was a great success. The good-sized audience, bolstered by the class participants themselves, enjoyed learning by listening to (and watching) Eileen’s suggestions, as well as listening to fine singing made better by those suggestions.
The class started with Kris Maples, who shared her lovely soprano in The sun, whose rays from MIKADO. Next, Fred Hughes introduced us to The Prince of Monte Carlo (the Herald’s song) from GRAND DUKE. Katherine Bryant delighted us with Were I thy bride from YEOMEN, and Arthur Dunlap poured out his splendid voice in When all night long from IOLANTHE. Mary H. V. Turner, who had been considering singing a contralto number, proved that she is still a soprano – and a good one, too! – in I cannot tell what this love may be from PATIENCE. Dan Kamalic and Rick Copeland concluded the class by showing us two excellent but very different versions (baritone and bass, respectively) of Oh, better far to live and die from PIRATES.
At Janice Dallas’s excellent suggestion, We asked members of the class to tell Us how they felt about the experience, and to tell Us whether they thought NEGASS ought to sponsor such a program again – and received two replies:
&&& To me the biggest "BANG" one gets from participation in a G&S Master-class is the sense of experiencing what a lead would encounter in rehearsal. Though I personally get the fullest satisfaction of show participation from being in the chorus, it's nice to get a glimpse of the other half of rehearsal. Eileen seems to have a natural knack for working with performers. To me, the Master-class is a unique Gilbert and Sullivan experience that certainly deserves a NEGASS meeting slot. A good time was surely had by all.
-- FRED HUGHES
&&& I arrived late at the Master Class, but was immediately struck by the warmth with which the listeners applauded the participant who finished just before me. It made having to get up on stage immediately (and with no warm up) a lot easier. I sang I cannot tell what this love may be from PATIENCE. Then Eileen -- with some helpful comments from the audience -- gave a lot of input concentrating on both motivation and physical presentation of the song. Although the emphasis was not on changing a person's vocal technique, by the time each participant's 20-minute session was up, we were all singing more freely, beautifully, and in character. Thank you so much for providing the opportunity to make a lot of progress in a short time with Eileen's gentle, humorous presentation (threats to tape my hands to my side notwithstanding!), a fabulous accompanist (Eric Schwartz), and an enthusiastic audience.
-- MARY H. VESENKA TURNER
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...is the title of the paper Bruce I. Miller and Helga J. Perry will be presenting at the 11th International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music at Royal Holloway, University of London on Thursday, 29 June 2000, during an evening session entitled "The Victorian Era." Here’s an abstract of the paper, which Bruce & Helga posted recently to SavoyNet:
The song De Belville was regarded as the Crichton of his age is perhaps the most intriguing of the "lost songs" in the Gilbert and Sullivan canon. Originally included in Act II of Iolanthe, the seventh of the Savoy operas, this song has tantalized Savoyards since 1882. It was performed at the simultaneous London and New York premieres, but was cut almost immediately thereafter. Although the words survive in a few sources, the music (which was never published) sank without a trace.
Various theories have been propounded about the music of the "De Belville" song, and about how this music may have been recycled. In our paper we review the existing body of knowledge, and describe details of a recently discovered orchestral part - the only musical source of this song to have surfaced in the 118 years since the two premiere performances. This unique fragment enables us to confirm some conjectures, and reject others. Furthermore, it permits fresh insights to be made into the process by which Gilbert and Sullivan created their operas.
Sounds interesting? – but you can’t make it to England for the conference?
Be patient! - NEGASS has invited Bruce to read the bill [oops
- wrong lost song…] paper a second time for us right here in NE on October
15. More news as it breaks!
-- mlc
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Greetings from New York. A query on page 5 of the April/May 2000 Trumpet Bray asks about the G&S Yiddish Light Opera Co. As it happens, I have performed with this group. As far as I know, the company does not have a website, but there is an e-mail address: GnSYiddish@aol.com. I'm sure people can get any information they need through e-mail. The people in this company are extremely nice. Take care -
-- JEFF KURNIT
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Janice Dallas gleaned this from SavoyNet: … responding to an item in the delightful [sic!] Trumpet Bray from NEGASS, the brilliant Jonathan Strong's Gentleman in Black by Gilbert, to which he has placed music by Sullivan (as he did for Thespis when we did the world premiere of it in Hartford in 1989) is now available. I've received a handsome copy and it is fascinating. I was especially grateful to receive (last week) a copy of his and Dr. John Dreslin's self-published score--now ready for a big publisher. John, who is conductor of CG&SS as well as the East Lyme Arts Council, has done it all on computer and accompanists will find that the pages lie flat and are easy to turn. Anyone who hasn't seen the premiere version, or the slightly altered version produced by Bill Venman a year later in Northampton, can easily buy copies. Just ask! Thank you, again, [Ralph] MacPhail and Venman for all you did (and DO) for Savoyards--and to the other heroes of the art form who are doing so much in so many ways, using them as role models.
- ROBERT CUMMING
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Bob Weingart, whose musical setting of Mary Finn’s libretto for The Foundling was a great success several years ago, responded to news of Jonathan Strong’s work with The Gentleman in Black by commenting that another way of dealing with such “orphan scripts” would be to compose original music for them, and commented that he is "toying with the idea.. Anyway, what I'm wondering is how I could get hold of some these orphan scripts to read through them and settle on one to set. Do you have them? Are copies easy to order? (Don't forget that I'm in Japan....) A musicologist I'm not.”"
We personally don’t know how one might get hold of such scripts - particularly if one were in Japan. Any advice for Bob? Send it to Us and We’ll publish it.
-- mlc
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Janice gleaned this as well: I'm happy to announce the availability of a new, full (conductor's) score to IDA. It's based on the orchestra parts available from Kalmus (and compatible with them). Typeset parts are also available.
For more information about these materials, as well as my SORCERER and COX AND BOX materials, please see my website --
DAVID LARRICK, dcl@ties.org
David adds: The parts and score were "beta-tested" by the MIT G&S Players recent production, whose marvelous orchestra was conducted by yours truly.
As I mentioned, the materials are based on the Kalmus parts. In particular, a set of parts owned by Valley Light Opera of Amherst, graciously lent to me by Bill Venman.
-- DAVID LARRICK
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That’s the title of an article about G&S by Stephen Jay Gould, published in the Vol. 69 No 2 Spring 2000 issue of The American Scholar, a publication of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Gould explains that, although these works are “often dismissed as… an embarrassment to anyone with modern intellectual pretensions… I may now” [following the popular success of Topsy-Turvy] “emerge from decades of (relative) silence to shout my confession that I love these pieces with all my heart, and that I even regard them as epitomes of absolute excellence for definable reasons that may help us to understand this most rare and elusive aspect of human potential.” Gould then goes into a lengthy philosophical discussion regarding the definition of excellence, settling on G&S as crack specimens - the pick of the basket. The article is far too long even for excerpts – but We’d be happy, upon request, to lend Our copy, which was provided to Us by Elizabeth Stone.
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Marc, a G&S scholar who serves as Listmaster for SavoyNet, has kindly sent Us a combined version of the two separate reviews of the new Dover editions of MIKADO– Full Score and Piano/Vocal editions -which he has published on that list. Unfortunately the combined review is so long that We cannot fit it into a single Bray– so We will publish it in installments. Here’s this month’s section:
The full scores of the Savoy Operas have not fared well as far as published editions go. Only The Mikado and H.M.S. Pinafore had editions during Sullivan’s lifetime (the latter in a German translation). That was it until the 1970s and ’80s, when Kalmus put out editions of the nine most popular operas. In the 1980s, Ernst Eulenberg published a new critical edition of THE GONDOLIERS, but its utility was severely limited by a miniature format unreadable from the conducting stand and the lack of other scores and parts that agreed with it. In 1994, Broude Brothers published the full score of TRIAL BY JURY , a full-dress scholarly edition that finally gave one of Sullivan’s operas the respect it deserved. A scholarly edition of Ruddigore from Oxford University Press appeared in early 2000.
The Kalmus full scores published in the ’70s and ’80s were of widely varying quality. Kalmus did MIKADO a singular disservice by simply reprinting the 1893 Bosworth edition. Despite being prepared directly from the composer’s autograph score, that edition was full of errors, difficult to read, and contained many of the wrong words (in some cases pre-first-night lyrics). If this isn’t bad enough, the Kalmus score retails for $160.00.
In the computer age, anyone can be a music publisher, but not necessarily a good one. William V. Dorwart publishes an expensive MIKADO full score, but the editor silently incorporates his own "improvements," leaving the conductor unsure where Sullivan ends and Dorwart begins. Larry Simons offers a score free for download over the Internet, but the format is unwieldy, and it will look ugly unless your printer matches the resolution Simons used.
With the only available full scores so badly flawed, and two of them wildly overpriced, it is not difficult to do better, as editors Carl Simpson and Ephraim Hammett Jones certainly appear to have done. At $19.95, Dover’s full score is an irresistible buy. The companion vocal score, at $12.95, is priced to compete with the other available vocal scores.
My endorsement of the Dover MIKADO comes with caveats. While I found few outright errors (i.e., words or notes that couldn’t possibly be right), there are many inconsistencies (i.e., apparently similar textual problems not treated similarly). Compare the Dover text with other available texts, and you will be hard pressed to comprehend the editors’ thought process. They apparently have an incomplete understanding of the sources’ relationships, and the criteria guiding their decisions seem at times cavalier.
Cosmetically, the Dover MIKADO is simply gorgeous. It is professionally typeset using modern fonts and notation. The dialogue is printed in a large font that will be easily readable in a dark theater. I found no examples of notes or words being cramped into too little space—often the sign of amateur musical typesetting. The score needs more use in field conditions before judgment can be passed, but at first look it appears to be a significant improvement over all of the others currently available.
Both full score and vocal score begin with an introduction that explains the background of MIKADO and provides a brief overview of the editorial procedure. As far as I recall, this introduction marks the first time in a mass-market publication that the famous story about the sword falling off the wall of Gilbert’s study is debunked. Brian Jones first punctured this myth in the inaugural issue of the W. S. Gilbert Society Journal, in 1985. It’s high time that authors stopped rehashing it.
Some of the editors’ statements are more doubtful. They say that MIKADO’s record for 672 consecutive performances was not broken until 1922, but in fact Cellier and Stephenson’s Dorothy broke it with 931 performances not long after Mikado closed. We could probably have done without a lengthy synopsis that seems patronizing and contains a number of errors.
To the discussion of their editorial procedure, the editors devote just two parsimonious paragraphs. On the one hand, it is two paragraphs more than any of the other available MIKADO scores gives us. Yet, the editors are silent on a number of easily answered questions. Chief among them: what state of MIKADO does this edition represent? It is evidently a hybrid.
For example, the role of Pish-Tush is presented in a first-night state: he is allotted the brief solo after the opening chorus, the bass line in "So please you sir," and the bass line in the Madrigal. The edition makes no mention of the introduction of the character Go-To shortly after the opera opened. Yet, the bassoon chuckle in Three little maids (generally agreed to have been added during one of the revivals) is included, and the two occurrences of the n-word are silently emended with their traditional replacements.
The bassoon encore to The flowers that bloom in the spring (also a later addition) is included as Number 20a in the full score, but is omitted in the vocal score. The edition does not restart the numbering at 1 for Act II, even though Sullivan’s autograph, the Bosworth edition, all early vocal scores and all Chappell vocal scores to the present day, do so.
Were you not to Ko-Ko plighted appears in its first-night state, and there are footnoted instructions explaining the changes required for the traditional one-verse form. Alternate words for this later version are provided in italics, an arrangement that performers are sure to find confusing. It is also inconsistent that there is no explanation of how to reduce So please you sir from quintet to quartet, or indeed, no mention that this change ever occurred. The vocal score adds a footnote explaining that the number is traditionally given as a quartet, but the instructions for how to convert it to that form are incorrect.
The editors’ two primary sources appear to have been Sullivan’s autograph score and the Bosworth Edition.
-- MARC SHEPHERD
More next month! Here are citations Marc provided for the volumes he is discussing:
| Dover Publications Inc: Mineola, NY, 1999 |
| xvi + 352 pages; $19.95 |
| Dover Publications Inc: Mineola, NY, 2000 |
| x + 246 pages; $12.95 |
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More news gleaned by Janice Dallas: The Sudbury Savoyards elect board members who then choose positions on the board. We understand that new officers and staff this year include
Larry Seiler is remaining temporarily as Task List Manager, but is looking for a replacement so that he can move on to other things.
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[Bobbie Herman sent Us this review culled from SavoyNet - can’t imagine why she would have done so… ] I have been meaning to post something since Sunday, when I spent a lovely Spring afternoon watching Bobbie Herman and her Connecticut cohorts in a delightful GONDOLIERS.
This company attracts wonderful principals. Of the people we "know," Bobbie is, by turns, a lovely contadina and then a terrific mystical, dentally-challenged Inez. She has chosen to speak rather than sing the thankless recit (a good choice, I think--more on this in a later post).
Tom Zimmerman was a ringer as Don Alhambra at QWERTYConn--the full effect with Vincent Price make-up and swirling coat is fabulous. Great voice, great panache--Tom owns the stage.
The Venetian quartet sings and acts beautifully. My friend Jane Bernd is Gianetta, so I'm a little partial, but the Tessa (who was great as Phoebe last year) has crystal-clear diction and vocal tone, and a sparkling presence. Marco & Giuseppe are equally good, either one the envy of any company (including one or more companies in New York City, where, I'm told, Marco lives).
Actually, all the leads sing very well. (A Program would be of some help here, wouldn't it?) The youngish Duke grew on me throughout--by Act II I was a big fan.
Nice set, great costumes.
A few orchestral problems, some hard to ignore. But that's so like a band. This group performs at New Canaan High School, in a huge auditorium. I guess that this makes miking de rigueur, but it's pretty bad. Hard, at times, to tell who's singing.
I also guess that this group, like many small amateur groups, has a dearth of lead singers emerging from the chorus. One very capable soprano sings Fiametta, Giulia AND Vittoria (makes the duets difficult...).
The chorus is a good size ("and we are ALMOST twenty..."), and nicely balanced.
All told...wonderful singers, some funny (and silly) bits (e.g. the Duke of Plaza-Toro.com), a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon.
--CAROL DAVIS
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In response to Our note in the last Bray, Bobbie Herman sent Us another recent SavoyNet posting by listmaster Marc Shepherd: This post by Clive Woods, from the SavoyNet archives, explains the origins of the term:
. . . . . . the story begins some two years [from 1 Sept. 1999] ago following the first fully-costumed SavoyNet show, viz COX AND BOX at the Buxton Fest1997. Those involved thought it would be a good idea to have a "wind-down" meeting afterwards (i.e. an excuse for the copious consumption of beer). Simultaneously the concept of putting on the following year's show (which turned out to be TRIAL) was being discussed, and the possibility of having a "pre-rehearsal" to make sure we could actually get through the music was being batted about on S'net. I believe it was Kelsey who started heading his messages on this subject something like "C&BMUTBJRTWE" (i.e., C&B meet-up, TbJ run-through - whatever") and after a few of these someone (it may have been me, but memories are hazy now) got fed up of the virtuoso typing required for this, and instead opted for the easier-to-type "QWERTYUIOP". (If you haven't yet twigged, the easiest way to type this is a glissando along the top row of keys.) So there you have it!
-- CLIVE WOODS
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The SavoyNet production planned for the next International G&S Festival in Buxton, England, will be YEOMEN, and will take place on Monday, August 7, 2000. Join SavoyNet to ask for more details!
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Alessandra Kinsford sends Us part of a program from the Covent Garden Opera Festival 2000 which mentions, “The festival’s longest running show has been TRIAL in Bow St. Magistrates’ Courts, and this year it moves to the Law Courts in the Strand as well, and the opera-in-situ tradition is maintained with Opera Della Luna’s PINAFORE aboard HMS President in the Thames.” Alessandra asks, “Do you know of any New England GS shows that have been performed “in situ”? It would be a great idea – imagine TRIAL at Concord District Court, or PINAFORE on the U.S.S. Constitution!”
Actually, Our seive-like brain still holds memories of a PINAFORE done last summer on a ship in - was it Mystic, CT? Moreover - see the Calendar for a ship-shape summer production planned by the Boston Academy of Music!
MITG&SP is seeking a Producer plus Stage and Music Directors for SORCERER, their planned Fall 2000 production. Make an appointment for an interview between June 12th - July 7th. Call MITG&SP at (617) 253-0190, contact them via e-mail at savoyards-request@mit.edu, or visit http://www.mit.edu/activities/gsp/home.html for more info.
The G&S Society of Hancock County, ME, will hold a Pick-up Light Opera (analogous to our Last Minute Light Opera) MIKADO on 6/18, followed by a pot-luck dinner and G&S sing-along. Call Nick Burnett at (207) 244-0421 or Lee Patterson at (207) 244-4044 to request a role, or for more information.
And - they’ll hold a reprise of their winter show, SORCERER, on 7/13-16 – for tix & info call the Grand Auditorium of Ellsworth, ME box office at (207) 667-9500.
And -- PIRATES will be their 2/01 show, for which Dede Johnson and Fred Goldrich will return as Artistic and Music directors. Visit their new web site at http://ellsworthme.org/gsshc/ for more info!
D’Oyly Carte’s only planned American production for this year is PINAFORE , to be performed at the Shubert Theater in New Haven, Connecticut, presented by the International Festival of Arts and Ideas. Prices are $25, $38 and $48. Performances will be held at 8 PM on 6/16 and 17, at 2PM on 6/ 17 and 18, and at 7 PM on 6/18 For more info, phone 888-ART-IDEA or 800-228-6622, or visit www.shubert.com/tickets/html
The Westchester Gilbert & Sullivan Group, which meets approximately once a month at a private home in Briarcliff, NY to enjoy informal sing-throughs of G&S operas, is planning PIRATES on 6/14, a Pot Luck Supper and Talent Show on 7/19, and their Annual Business Meeting on 8/16 – and, looking at last year’s schedule, We gather that they’ll be starting up again in September with an endless series of monthly sing-throughs. Call Emily Kingsley at (914) 923-2995 for driving directions to the meetings, or Betsey Hughes at (914) 769-2494 if you want to sing a solo. You’re also welcome to sing chorus, or just listen.
Exsultet!, a chamber chorus in residence at Holy Trinity United Methodist Church, 16 Sylvan Street in Danvers [MA], is planning a summer sing of MIKADO on Wednesday, 6/28, at 7:30 PM. They’ll sing through the complete work, accompanied by piano, including the dialogue. (NEGASSer Tony Parkes will be playing the role of KoKo.) For more info, contact Richard A. A. Larraga at (781) 329‑1741 or R2AL@exsultet.org,or visit www.exsultet.org.
NYGASS’s next meeting will take place Saturday, 6/24 at the Friends Meeting House near Union Square in NYC. The address is on Rutherford Place (it's between 2nd & 3rd Avenue, near 15th St.) Doors open at 7:30; the meeting starts at 8:00, and the Inner Brotherhood go out for coffee afterwards.
Bruce I. Miller and Helga J. Perry will be reading a paper with the title "The Reward of Merit? An Examination of the Suppressed De Belville Song in Gilbert and Sullivan's IOLANTHE>" at the 11th International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music at Royal Holloway, University of London on Thursday, 6/29, during the evening session entitled “The Victorian Era." [See the Official Abstract printed above.] For further details of the conference, contact Dr. Katharine Ellis at k.ellis@rhbnc.ac.uk.
The College Light Opera Co. (CLOC) 32nd season will include two G&S works: PIRATES June 27-July 1 and UTOPIA July 25-29. Performances Tuesday-Saturday at 8:30 PM and Thursday at 2:30 PM at the newly-renovated Highfield Theatre in Falmouth, MA. Box office phone: (508) 548-0668. Or mail ticket orders to CLOC, P.O. Drawer 906, Falmouth, MA 02541.
The Boston Academy of Music (BAM) will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a nautical production of PINAFORE. Open-air performances at the Charlestown (MA) Navy Yard (bring your lawn chairs, they warn us) in front of the USS Constitution, will be held 6/30 and 7/1 at 8:15 PM, and 7/2 at 2:00 PM Call (617) 242-0055 for more info.
BAM also plans GONDOLIERS 11/24 & 25 at 8:00 and 11/25 & 26 at 2:00. Call (617) 242-0055 for more info.
The Sudbury Savoyards will perform Hart and Kaufman’s You Can’t Take It With You [yes, We know it isn’t…] directed by Michael J. J. Cashman on 7/7, 8, 14, 15, 21 and 22 at 8pm and 7/16 at 2:30pm. We hear they plan GONDOLIERS as their spring 2001 show - for which they are currently seeking directors. . For more info, call 978-443-8811 or visit their web site at http://www.sudburysavoyards.org/ .
The Seventh International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival will take place in Buxton, England 7/29 - 8/20. For more info visit the Buxton Festival Site at http://www.gs-festivals.freeserve.co.uk/buxton2000/(site authored by SavoyNetters Bob and Jackie Richards) or phone 01422 323252 – or order your tickets directly by visiting http://www.buxton-opera.co.uk/
We’re looking forward to THE MILLENNIUM SINGOUT, to be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 18-20, 2000 - to sign up, contact Ori Siegel oris@interlog.com or Herschel Rosen torontosingout@home.com or write to: G & S T2K Singout, 22 Royal Street, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada L1H 2T6.
The Light Opera Company of Salisbury, CT will present its third production, IOLANTHE on 9/ 2 and 3, Labor Day Weekend, 2000. For further information, contact Sharon at dba.keene@snet.net or 860-435-4956. This year's performances will be a benefit for Habitat for Humanity.
The Harvard-Radcliff G&S Society plans PIRATES as their Fall 2000 production. For more info, write hrgsp@hcs.harvard.edu, visit http://hcs.harvard.edu/~hrgsp/ or phone (617) 496-4747.
SLOC (The Savoyard Light Opera Co.) of Carlisle, MA plans PIRATES directed by Donna [Parry] DeWitt and Philip Lauriat in November, 2000. For more info, call 978-371-7562 or visit their web site at http://www.tiac.net/users/sloc/.
Valley Light Opera of Amherst, MA plans IOLANTHE in November, 2000. For more info, contact producer Cami Elbow at (413) 549-0024, e-mail her at celbow@external.umass.edu, or visit their web site at http://www.vlo.org/
The Connecticut G&S Society plans RUDDIGORE at the Middletown, CT High School on 11/17-19/2000. Directors: John Dreslin, music and Robert Cumming, stage. For more info, call (800) 866-1606.
The American Century Theater, a professional company located in Arlington, VA., has just held auditions for George S. Kaufman and Gilbert & Sullivan’s Hollywood Pinafore, to be performed in Sept and Oct. Tell Us, tell Us all about it!
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