Glossary of Odd British Terms & Italian Phrases Act 1 • tea: early supper • Dolce far niente: • Cachuca, fandango, delightful idleness bolero: Spanish dances The Departments of • Contradicente: if no-one • Xeres, Manzanilla, disagrees Montero: Spanish Wines • Ben venuti: welcome • toddy: a drink of distilled Music & Theatre Arts • Vagary: a fanciful notion spirits, sugar and water; a proudly present • Short-coated: children’s drink of the lower classes; clothes rich people drank wine • • Castilian Hidalgo: Spanish sprats: small fish gentleman/horsemaster • shovel hats; A stiff, broad- • Plaza toro: bull ring brimmed hat, turned up at the sides and with a shovel • Halbardiers: Guardsmen armed with axe-headed -like curve to the front spears and back; worn by English Clerics • Graziers: sheep-herders • small beer: weak, common • Married by proxy: in your beer absence • duck: affectionate term, • Matadoro: bull fighter like “Honey” or • Picadoro: bull torturer “sweetheart” • Paladin: Chivalrous • progenitor: father Knight • tartar: horse-mounted, • Men of grosser clay: warlike tribe of the central commoners Written by W. S. Gilbert Asian grasslands • Timoneer: helmsman • double-shotted guns: in Composed by: Arthur Sullivan • bier: coffin stand naval warfare, loading • vain-glory: conceit muzzle loading cannon • I ween: I believe with 2 rounds; ie. ready • Bear away the bell: take for battle first prize • colours nailed to the mast: March 14 & 15, 2008, 7:30pm • peruke: powdered wig attaching one’s battle flag March 16, 2008, 2:00 pm so it cannot be lowered in Act 2 surrender Special Events Center • cot: cottage • Gondoliers’ calls: preme- • livery: uniform formal press down; stali-stop, wear stand there! • beau ideal: model of excellence Orchestra Violin I Flute Becky Anderson Trena Anderson Marissa Hancock Jessica Harned Oboe Sean Hull Violin II Janae Frederick Clarinet Cally McGuire Taggart Lewis Megan Willhite Written by W. S. Gilbert Megan Reese Horn Composed by: Arthur Sullivan Justin Goodale Viola Nick Cesare Trumpet Emily Jones Brendan Grzanic

Cello Percussion Bailey Burns Andrew Hanny Act I Erica Seibel Yuko Sato The Piazetta, Venice. Fifteen minute intermission Double Bass Edward Stumpp Act II Pavilion in the Palace of Barataria Three months later Special Thanks Date 1750 Idaho Shakespeare Festival Boise Contemporary Theater The artists of The Idaho CoOPERAtive for workshop sessions with cast members Boise School District for the loan of Luiz’s marching drum Jim Ogle and Sunny Wallace for special promotional materials and events The use of cameras and other recording equipment is strictly Alex Feldman, webmaster of The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive forbidden. Any digital devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and http://math.boisestate.edu/GaS/index.html alarms should be turned off. Please remember that text messaging, Carrie Applegate for design of the program whispering, and other disruptions spoil the performance for other members of the audience and can be distracting to the actors.

The Duke of Plaza-Toro and family enter ceremoniously and the Cast Duke, not knowing which of the two kings is the actual king, awkwardly gives his blessing to the marriage. The two kings are then Duke of Plaza-Toro ...... Michal Jarolimek left alone with Casilda and the three, joined by Gianetta and Tessa, Duchess of Plaza-Toro ...... Dominique Nelson discuss the situation and pose the question; “How can you call Casilda ...... Misty Taylor marriage a state of unity when excellent husbands are bisected and Luiz ...... Jonathan Collins wives are divisible into three?” They are interrupted by the long- awaited arrival of the nurse-woman, Inez, who dramatically reveals the Don Alhambra Del Bolero ...... Alex Burns identity of the true King of Barataria. Marco Palmieri ...... Brian Roundy Giuseppe Palmieri ...... Markus Jenkins Historical Context Gianetta ...... Misti Moberly Today, we tend to think of G. & S. operettas as light entertainment, Tessa...... Angela Tracy full of hum-able tunes, sparkling dialogue, and light-hearted humor Francesco ...... Josh Belville poking fun at English society (Queen Victoria was seen to be laughing Giorgio ...... Robert Longstroth and tapping her feet at “A Regular Royal Queen” in The Gondoliers). Annibale ...... Advin Prolaz While this is indeed partly true, we neglect to realize that W. S. Gilbert’s writing was intensely topical, not only from an English point Fiametta ...... Karissa Adams of view, but also from a European point of view; not only about social Vittoria ...... Elisa Egli issues, but also about political issues. In The Gondoliers, for instance, we Giulia ...... Rachel Montoya laugh about the uninformed Marco and Giuseppe trying to combine a Inez ...... Erin Brook Nielsen monarchy with a republic: yet this is precisely what was going on in Europe in the late 19th Century—common people in virtually every Gondolier ...... Travis Gamble country were rising up against the aristocracy seeking representation. Women’s Chorus When Giuseppe says in the first act, “We are... sons of Baptisto Palmieri, who led the last revolution. Republicans, heart and soul...” Maria ...... Tiffany Hernandez he is expressing the feelings of most of the common people in Isabella ...... Dixie Humphries Europe. Italy was well known for its revolutions. France had again Francesca ...... Samantha Pfleger risen up and overthrown Emperor Napolean III in 1870 and declared another republic. Germany had been forced to cede the power of the Cecilia ...... Christy Rolfe purse to the Reichstag (although policy decisions remained in the Men’s Chorus hands of the Kaiser). Governments everywhere were struggling to give just enough to the common people to keep them from rebelling. Even Antonio ...... Jimmy Matsuura in England where the House of Commons was the most powerful Enrico ...... Jacob Spjute ruling body in the country, the members of the Commons were Luigi ...... Roderick Royce almost exclusively of the aristocracy, and “republicans” were thoroughly despised in the government. In spite of all the upper classes could do, Republicans finally triumphed everywhere in one way or another in Europe: the German people overthrew the Kaiser to end WWI, the Tsar was overthrown in Russia, the Hapsburgs in Austria, This theatre lighted entirely by Electricity. Italy was united, the Ottoman Empire dismantled. In England the Labour Party finally triumphed in elections allowing reform from Food refreshments and beverages are not allowed in the theatre within society. One wonders if the freedom of speech allowed in This theatre is protected against fire by an elaborate system of England and evidenced in Gilbert’s ability to parody politics in his water “Sprinklers” placed over the stage and audience. texts might have had a lot to do with that triumph. X Christopher Raynes PROGRAMMES are provided free of charge. Production Staff Plot Synopsis Stage Director ...... Christopher Raynes Twenty years prior to the opening of our story the heroine, Casilda, Music Director ...... Laura Rushing-Raynes was married in infancy to the infant heir to the throne of Barataria. Conductor ...... Christopher Raynes Shortly after the marriage, he disappeared, having allegedly been Scenic Designer ...... Micheal Baltzell secretly taken to Venice by Don Alhambra, the Grand Inquisitor of Costume Designer ...... Ann Hoste Spain. Alhambra left the infant prince in the care of a drunken Lighting Designer ...... W.J. Langley, Jr. gondolier who, due to an episode of alcoholic dementia, mixed the Dialect & Movement Coach ...... Ann Klautsch prince up with his own son. Or so Alhambra says... Choreographer ...... Marla Hansen Stage Manager ...... Janessa White Act I Technical Director ...... Micheal Baltzell Assistant Technical Director/ Presently, as the curtain rises, a chorus of peasant girls awaits the Scene Shop Supervisor ...... Fran Maxwell arrival of the two leading gondoliers, Marco and Giuseppe Palmieri, Costume Shop Manager ...... Keri Fitch who are coming to choose their brides. Through a game of blindman’s Master Electrician ...... Fred Hansen bluff, they choose Gianetta and Tessa and all happily go off to be Props Manager ...... Carmen Galindo married. Assistant Stage Managers ...... Sarah Gardner ...... Nicole Orabona Meanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro arrive with their Rehearsal Accompanist ...... Andrei Constantinescu daughter Casilda (and “suite”). They tell her about her babyhood Assistant Dialect Coach ...... Josh Bellville marriage to the infant heir to the Baratarian throne. They are unaware Assistant Dance Coach ...... Advin Prolaz that Casilda is already in love with their drummer, Luiz. Upon hearing Light Board Operator...... Evan Sesek Casilda is already married, Luiz and Casilda renounce their love. Don Dresser/Wardrobe ...... Brooke Benson Alhambra arrives to tell them either Marco or Guiseppe Palmieri is ...... Chantell Fuller Casilda’s husband - but only the nurse-woman, Inez, knows which. He Hair/Makeup ...... Brooke Benson decrees she will be brought from her distant home in the mountains ...... Chantell Fuller and will reveal, under torture if necessary, which of the two gondoliers Scenic Construction ...... THEA 118 Class is indeed the King. Until then, Alhambra plans that Marco and ...... Blaise Lawless Giuseppe will rule Barataria jointly. However, their newly acquired ...... Travis Gamble wives will not be allowed in the court and must be left behind in ...... Zach Warburton Venice - but only for a few months. Or so Alhambra says...... Ryan Adolfson ...... Berni Cockey Act II Costume Construction ...... THEA 118 Class ...... Brooke Benson We find Giuseppe and Marco surrounded by members of their court...... Chantell Fuller Everything is going well—except that their wives are still in Venice...... Diane Applegate Suddenly, Gianetta, Tessa and their friends show up, having disobeyed ...... Tiffany Edgar Alhambra’s instructions to remain in Venice and secured passage from ...... Advin Prolaz Venice to Barataria on a fishing boat. To celebrate, the kings give Electricians ...... Chris Bodovinitz them a banquet and a dance...... Ryan Duch ...... Tyler Neisinger Don Alhambra’s sudden appearance breaks up the party and, after Head Fly/Stage Hand ...... Katie Burdick telling Marco and Giuseppe why Republicanism doesn’t work, he is Stage Hands ...... Brad Doolittle unpleasantly surprised by the appearance of Gianetta and Tessa and is ...... Cooper Lee forced to disclose to them that one of their husbands is already Music Department Chair ...... Dr. Mark R. Hansen married to Casilda. It means that one of them is not married at all— Theatre Department Chair ...... Dr. Richard Klautsch and that neither of them will be queen. Theatre Admin. Assistant ...... Carrie Applegate Continued [