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hen I joined St David’s Players in We are very lucky to have Jane May directing W1980, Ruddigore was the rst show us again aer her successful production of I performed in so it holds some very special e Mikado last year and we also have our memories for me. Pete Sargent and Caroline fantastic musical duo of Mark and Nicky Perry WeWe areare Avery were also in that production 34 years back again. is year Mark is wielding the baton ago with me and they are both performing with Nicky accompanying him brilliantly on on stage again this year. For Pete, this will the keyboard. StSt Loye’sLoye’s be his 35th show without a break that he I would like to wish you all a very enjoyable has performed with St David’s Players. evening and hope to see you again next year for a Alice,Alice, now now job job seeking, seeking, former former St StLoye’s Loye’s client client uite an achievement, so well done Pete. bit of swash buckling in e Pirates of Penzance!

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WeWe are are a aregistered registered charity. charity. Donations,Donations, however however large large or or small, small, Following the success of last year’s provides support for people with autistic WeWe believe believe all all people people should should have have the the areare always always gratefully gratefully received received as as every every production of e Mikado we were able to spectrum conditions who are looking for opportunityopportunity to to full full their their potential. potential. pennypenny directly directly benets benets our our clients. clients. present a cheque to FORCE Cancer Charity employment, training or meaningful activities for the sum of £2,396.89 - A big thank you to in the Exeter and East Devon area. We hope you everyone who helped us raise this amount. feel able to support them by purchasing a rae WeWe work work with with disabled disabled and and disadvantaged disadvantaged ToTo make make a adonation, donation, or or to to nd nd out out how how Our chosen charity this year is St Loye’s ticket or donating in the bucket collection at the peoplepeople to to help help transform transform their their lives lives youyou can can help help support support St St Loye’s Loye’s Foundation, Foundation, Foundation and we would like to raise funds end of the show. S J throughthrough our our specialist specialist support support services. services. likelike volunteering, volunteering, leaving leaving a alegacy legacy or or choosing choosing for their ‘Positive Opportunities Service’ which WeWe have have been been doing doing this this since since 1937. 1937. usus as as your your Charity Charity of of the the Year, Year, please please visit visit President: St David’s Players ourour website website www.stloyes.org.uk www.stloyes.org.uk TogetherTogether we we can can help help more more people. people. oror call call 01392 01392 255428 255428. .

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St David’s Players Chairman’s welcome take no responsibility for any o ers or Chairman: St David’s Players advert content C B contained in this le. irstly, I would like to say how delighted I am in St David’s Church. Some of them may even problems for over 75 years. Please dig deep to Special o ers shown Fto have been elected as the new Chairman have involved a Maypole just like tonight’s opera! support their rae and bucket collections. in adverts may no of St David’s Players. I have been a lifelong fan Set on the rugged Cornish Coast Ruddigore My thanks go to our director, Jane May longer be valid. of theatre, I became directly involved, helping or originally Ruddygore (also known as e and our musical director Mark Perry, who, with props and backstage, so that I could Witches Curse) is the tenth of what became supported by our backstage and technical crew, S spend more time with my beautiful, talented known as the ‘Savoy Operas’ written by Gilbert have led the cast to entertain you with tonight’s StdP and long su ering wife Sarah. She was oen at and Sullivan. It was rst performed in the Savoy fantastic show. I would like to welcome the new rehearsals, so it seemed a good way to spend eatre London on the 22nd January 1887. members of the cast and crew, and thank all S time together. is has rather backred, as we Ruddigore did not originally do very well in involved for their hard work on this production. now oen nd ourselves working on di erent its reviews. However, ultimately it proved very I would also like to thank the St David’s Players shows. In addition, I would like to thank popular, protable and has gone on to inuence committee who have supported and helped me Sarah for allowing me to turn our home into many shows from Ruddy George (a.k.a. Robin nd my feet this year. a semi-permanent prop workshop and store. Redbreast) a burlesque, to Me and My Girl, Please enjoy the show, and I look I have been known to perform occasionally oroughly Modern Millie, Spitting Image, forward to seeing you all next year, for our myself. Look carefully and you may spot me Doctor Who and of course Harry Potter. production of e Pirates of Penzance. briey on stage tonight. For me, being Chairman I am delighted that this year we are of St David’s Players feels like coming home. supporting St Loye’s Foundation who have been I started school at St David’s First School 34 providing employment and training services years ago, and my rst public performances were for people with disabilities and chronic health tdEt T t ST DAVIDS PLAYERS WITH JOYOUS SHOUT! www.stdavidsplayers.co.uk e Finale from our 2013 production of 30 MARCH exeter musical society W National Operatic and www.exetermusicalsociety.com Dramatic Association S

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ark’s rst recollection of ‘am-dram’ was performance of Ruddigore leaves only Princess Min his teens, being cast as e Serpent in Ida, espis, Patience and Cox & Box to do! a play about the Creation, and that more or less In between the ‘G’-ing and ‘S’-ing, Mark has set the tone for a number of things to come… musically directed Fiddler on the Roof, Exeter Little Theatre Company proudly presents our He became involved with musical am-dram e Sound of Music, Bitter Sweet, through the St David’s Players in 1981, as one My Fair Lady, Tom Jones (the musical, of the piano duettists for e Mikado. In 1983 not the Welshman) and Guys and Dolls he performed on stage as Strephon in Iolanthe with Exmouth Amateur Operatic Society, (no-one else auditioned) and his performance now Exmouth Musical eatre Company. so stunned the critics that he was placed rmly Mark has been delighted to work with Jane back in the orchestra pit the following year, on Ruddigore. Rehearsals have been great fun, where he has remained ever since. He has either as ever, and very exciting too. He’s been told by musically directed or accompanied nearly all the the cast that the song ‘Oh, why am I moody and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and this week’s sad?’ seemed to have a particular relevance…

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Notice something di erent? Contributed by Ian Bond ilbert and Sullivan enthusiasts may Musically there are a number of di erences to a far more spectacular version in which the Gnotice that the version of Ruddigore you from the ‘standard’ version which, it needs to reprise ‘For happy the lily’ is in common time are watching is very slightly di erent from the be remembered, was an adapted version of the ( ) – this was their preferred version and is more commonly performed opera. opera prepared in 1919/1920 and so without the one presented here today. It is also worth Sullivan scholar David Russell-Hulme permission from either Gilbert or Sullivan noting that this nale and the nale to Utopia prepared this edition of Ruddigore from (both being dead). e act two nale was are the only two occasions in Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan’s autograph score for the presented in two versions during the original Sullivan where the nale is not a mere repeat New Sadler’s Wells centenary revival in 1987. run. Both start with ‘When a man has been a of music already heard earlier in the opera. e dialogue is as it was being performed naughty baronet,’ the di erence being that for Otherwise the production of the opera when the original production closed at the the rst few nights the reprise of ‘Oh, happy the is not a ected, other than that you will have Savoy in 1887 and is therefore as Gilbert and lily’ reverted to the original time as in Act a far more authentic Ruddigore which sounds Sullivan le it and intended it to be performed. One. Gilbert and Sullivan changed very quickly quite unique!

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TM St David’s Players Synopsis take no responsibility MAYFLOWER rtne Ruddigore or e Witch’s Curse for any o ers or Ha ll advert content Lyrics and Libretto by W S G Music by A S contained in this le. Fresh Foods BUTCHERS & BAKERS TRIVIA Special o ers shown 40 Longbrook Street, Exeter, EX4 6AE in adverts may no longer be valid. 01392 272080 ilbert used phrases Act I Act II Just around the corner from John Lewis, next to Samuel’s Estate Agents n the seaside village of Rederring, ct Two opens in the picture gallery of in Cornwall, a chorus of professional Ruddigore Castle, now the home of Sir We sell fresh meat, Fresh vegetables in his Ruddigore I A G bridesmaids frets that there have been no Ruthven (Robin). Robin nds that wickedness and make fresh filled rolls to order libretti that were in vogue weddings for the last six months and they hope does not come naturally to him. His weak crimes Why not try our award winning home made pasties Rose Maybud will oblige. ey ask Rose’s stir the ancestral ghosts who come alive from 8 Gold Street or our selection of cakes and homemade flapjacks at the time of writing. aunt, Dame Hannah, if she might consider their portraits to give him a taste of the torments Tiverton marriage, but her betrothed turned out to to come if he refuses to commit a daily crime. Over 30 varieties of Sausage made in Hartnell’s be Sir Roderic Murgatroyd, one of the bad Sir Roderic, Robin’s immediate predecessor, and BBQ outside most days ƒ AMARYLLIS: baronets of Ruddigore. She tells of the curse suggests he carries o a lady from the village. www.may ower- orists.co.uk Girl’s name in use in classical and placed on all who hold that title – they must sales@may ower- orists.co.uk EEELIESEICE pastoral poetry. (‘Welcome, gentry’ - Chorus) commit a crime a day or perish in dreadful A new start 01884 252 251 agony! Rose takes her ideas of right and wrong FAX 01884 255529 from a book of etiquette and nds all the young Meanwhile, Despard has atoned for his ƒ VALLEY DE SHAM: men she meets either too rude or too shy. previous ten years of evil acts and has married Victorian English pronunciation of Mad Margaret and the two persuade Ruthven to Flowers for all occasions dt valet de chambre, a personal male servant. Avoiding the curse give up his life of crime. He vows to talk to Sir ATELLESS (‘I once was as meek as a new born Roderic, but Old Adam returns having carried *on production of I.D. badge, available on meat purchases (uncooked) only. lamb’ - Sir Ruthven and Old Adam) To avoid inheriting the family curse, o Dame Hannah – whose fury is violent! Not to be used in conjunction with other vouchers or offers Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd has ed the ancestral Answering Robin’s call for help, Sir Roderic home and, disguised as Robin Oakapple, comes face to face with his one time ancée. ƒ LANTERN CHAPS: settled in Rederring. Here he has fallen in love Long bony jaws (‘When the night with Rose Maybud but, too shy to develop the A way out wind howls’  Sir Roderic relationship himself, he calls upon Richard Dauntless (Robin’s foster brother) to court In a ash of inspiration, Robin realises that Rose for him. Overcome by Rose’s beauty, a baronet of Ruddigore who refuses to commit ƒ PENNY READINGS: Richard sets about capturing her for himself and the daily crime must die and, therefore, to make Meetings at which readings from ones nearly succeeds in doing so until Robin nally such a refusal is tantamount to suicide; which own or another’s writings would be given. declares his love for her and wins her back. is a crime in itself. Consequently, Sir Roderic e admission was usually one penny. Mad Margaret has been driven to madness ‘ought never to have died’ and the curse should (‘I once was a very abandoned person’ by her love for Sir Despard, the current not have been handed on. Sir Roderic, now - Mad Margaret and Sir Despard) ‘Bad Baronet.’ She is jealously seeking Rose ‘practically alive,’ is free to marry Dame Hannah, Maybud, having heard that Sir Despard Robin can reclaim Rose and Richard settles for business & intends to carry Rose o as one of his daily the First Bridesmaid, Zorah. employment ƒ PARLEYVOO: crimes. Rose tells her that she is pledged to family Obviously a parody, this upset the French another. Sir Despard bemoans his fate of newspaper ‘Le Figaro’ which wrote that having to commit a daily crime and feels uddigore or ‘ e Witch’s Curse,’ housing the song was an insult to the French nation obliged to reveal Robin’s true identity. Roriginally called Ruddygore, is the tenth and navy. Gilbert replied that the French of fourteen ‘Savoy Operas’ written by Gilbert would have used terms like ‘Rosbif ’ to Deception revealed and Sullivan. It was rst performed by the inheritance ridicule Les Anglais! D’Oyly Carte Opera Company at the Savoy (‘I shipp’d d’ye see’ - Richard Dauntless) e village gathers to celebrate the nuptials eatre in London on 22nd January 1887. of Rose and Robin. Sir Despard interrupts, e rst night was not altogether a success, property revealing that Robin is his elder brother as critics and the audience felt that Ruddygore ƒ GIDEON CR AWLE: and must accept his rightful title as the Bad did not measure up to its predecessor, is is assumed to be Old Adam’s Baronet. Rose, horried at Robin’s true identity, e Mikado. Aer some changes, including real name. resolves to marry Despard – who refuses her: respelling the title, it achieved a run of civil litigation now free of the curse, the ex-baronet takes up 288 performances. with his old love and ancée Mad Margaret. ere were further changes and cuts, ƒ In one episode of the 1980s ITV Rose then accepts Richard, as he ‘is the only including a new overture, when Rupert series Spitting Image, Neil Kinnock one that’s le.’ Robin leaves to take up his D’Oyly Carte revived Ruddigore aer the injury claims parodied the ‘Matter’ patter song! rightful identity as Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd. First World War.

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ormed in late 1969 by For the rst couple of years the (Limited), e Grand Duke, and also to If you would like to join us or wish to Society presented two productions a a number of Sullivan’s non-Gilbert works, know more about St David’s Players, we members of the choir of year, but since 1972, one main stage including e Zoo, e Rose of Persia and shall be delighted to hear from you. F production a year has been normal. e Emerald Isle. In 1999 the Society had the Please contact our secretary (see below) or About us St David’s Church, Exeter, St David’s Players have built a formidable honour of being commissioned by the Arthur visit our web site which contains society news, reputation for staging Gilbert and/or Sullivan Society to perform e Emerald Isle at information about previous productions, a St David’s Players’ aim was to Sullivan productions to the highest possible the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival photo gallery, libretti, reviews of recordings and standard, initially accompanied by two in Buxton, Derbyshire. vocal scores, all kindly managed by Ian Bond. raise funds for the Biafran crisis. pianos, but since 1985, by an orchestra. We rehearse in central Exeter from April Over the past 44 years the Society to October each year with a performance If you would like to know more about [email protected] e rst production, has presented all the Gilbert and Sullivan at the end of that period. Rehearsals are joining us, contact: operas with the exception of espis great fun and we are always delighted to Rose Swi, Patience, was such a success for which, although there are several welcome new members both on stage as Secretary, @Stdavidsplayers adaptations, a major proportion of performers and o stage as helpers. St David’s Players. that it was decided to form Sullivan’s original music has been lost. We also arrange various social events c/o 20 Armstrong Avenue, St David’s Players have introduced Exeter, throughout the year including trips to Exeter EX4 5DJ facebook.com/StDavidsPlayersGandS a permanent company. East and Mid Devon to the delights of Utopia other productions by local companies. e: [email protected]

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St David’s Players take no responsibility Act I e seaside village of Rederring, Cornwall Act II e picture gallery in Ruddigore Castle for any o ers or Fair is Rose as bright May day I once was as meek as a new-born lamb advert content C   B (Solo Zorah) D (Robin & Adam) contained in this le. Sir Rupert Murgatroyd Happily coupled are we Special o ers shown S (Hannah & Chorus) D  C  (Rose & Richard) in adverts may no longer be valid. If somebody there chanced to be In bygone days I had thy love S (Rose) S (Rose with Chorus of Bridesmaids) I know a youth who loves a little maid Painted emblems of a race D (Rose & Robin) C   A (with Solos, Robin & Sir Roderic) From the briny sea C   B When the night wind howls S (Sir Roderic & Chorus) I shipp’d, d’ye see, in a revenue sloop Libretto by W S G Director J M S (Richard) He yields! He yields! C  Music by A S  Musical Director M P Hornpipe Away, remorse My boy, you may take it from me R.  S (Robin) S (Robin) I once was a very abandoned person Dramatis Personæ e Reddering bridesmaid corps e battle’s roar is over D (Margaret & Sir Despard) D (Richard & Rose) Robin Oakapple T H T B S F My eyes are fully open a young farmer If well his suit has sped T (Margaret, Robin, & Sir Despard) K J C M C   B Richard Dauntless M H ‘Mélodrame’ his foster bother – A man-o’-wars-man K  MG -T In sailing o’er life’s ocean wide T (Rose, Richard & Robin) ere grew a little ower Sir Despard Murgatroyd P F J T S (Hannah with Sir Roderic) of Ruddigore – A wicked Baronet Cheerily carols the lark R.  A (Margaret) Old Adam Goodheart K W Ladies’ chorus of villagers F A II Robin’s faithful servant Welcome, gentry, for your entry C A  S B E  C  When a man has been a naughty baronet (Ensemble) J M J O’C  Oh, why am I moody and sad? Rose Maybud T T S  C  (Sir Despard) For happy the lily (reprise) a village maiden R S G W (Ensemble) You understand? I think I do Mad Margaret S G  S  C  (Richard & Sir Despard) a poor crazed creature Gentlemen’s chorus Dame Hannah C  H of ocers and ancestors F A I Rose’s aunt R C  T J Hail the bride of seventeen summers (Ensemble) Zorah E M R J N J professional When the buds are blossoming bridesmaids P L A M (Ensemble) Ruth E B  T M P S  When I’m a bad bart, I will tell taradiddles ere will be an interval between Acts I and II (Robin & Chorus) B S I S  Interval drinks may be ordered from Sir Roderic Murgatroyd I H Oh, happy the lily the twenty- rst baronet of Ruddigore W T S  T  (Ensemble) the bar before the show.

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