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HADDON HALL An Original Light Opera in Three Acts Written by Sydney Grundy Composed by Arthur Sullivan Originally produced at the Savoy Theatre, London, under the management of Mr. Richard D’Oyly Carte, on Saturday 24th September 1892 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - DRAMATIS PERSONAE Royalists: Sir John Manners Steven Griffin Major Domo David Faulds Sir George Vernon Peter Thomson Dorothy Vernon Mary Timmons Oswald Alan Borthwick Lady Vernon Heather Boyd Roundhead: Dorcas Fiona Main Rupert Vernon Ian Lawson Nance Pat McKerrow Gertrude Caroline Kerr Puritans: Deborah Liz Landsman The McCrankie Maxwell Smart Sing-Song Simeon Ross Main Nicodemus Knock-Knee Harry Payne Barnabas Bellows-to-Mend Roland York Kill-Joy Candlemas (non-singing) Chorus of Simples, Gentles, Retainers, etc. The Prince Consort Chorus and Orchestra conducted by David Lyle. TRACK LISTING CD1. Total playing time [55:13] ACT 1 1. Introduction (Chorus) Ye stately homes of England [2:43] 2. Chorus To-day, it is a festal time [2:13] 3. Song (Dorcas) with Chorus But midst our jubilation - 'Twas a dear little dormouse [3:22] 4. Chorus with Solos (Dorothy, Hail to the Lord of Haddon Lady Vernon, Sir George) [3:24] 5. Madrigal (Dorothy, Lady Vernon, Sir George, Chorus) Welcome, I bid ye welcome - When the budding bloom of May [4:14] 6. Trio (Dorothy, Lady Vernon, Sir George) Nay, father dear [2:20] 7. Duet (Dorothy, Lady Vernon) Mother, dearest mother [3:20] 8. Song (Oswald) with Chorus Ribbons to sell - Come, simples and gentles [3:21] 9. Duet (Dorcas, Oswald) The sun's in the sky [2:43] 10. Recit (Dorothy, Dorcas, Oswald) My mistress comes [0:55] 11. Trio (Dorothy, Dorcas, Oswald) Oh, tell me what is a maid to say [2:51] 12. Recit & Song (Dorothy) Why weep and wait? - Red of the rosebud [3:26] 13. Entrance of Puritans Down with Princes [1:14] 14. Song (Rupert) I've heard it said [2:40] Finale Act 1 15. Scene (Company) The bonny bridegroom cometh When [3:56] 16. Song (Rupert) and Chorus I was but a little lad [1:50] 17. Scene (Company) Hail, cousin Rupert [2:11] 18. Solo (Dorothy & Company) When, yestereve, I knelt to pray [1:58] 19. Ensemble (Company) Father, forgive! [1:30] APPENDIX TO ACT 1. 20. Solo (Manners) The earth is fair [2.20] 21. Duet (Dorothy, Manners) Sweetly the morn doth break [2.05] CD2. Total playing time ACT 2- Scene 1 1. Introduction & Chorus of Puritans Hoarsely the wind is howling [1.47] 2. Song (McCrankie) My name it is McCrankie [2.24] 3. Duet (Rupert, McCrankie) There's no one by [3.04] [3:04] 4. Trio (Dorcas, Rupert, McCrankie) Hoity-toity, what's a kiss? [2.08] [2:08] Finale Act 2 5. Quartette (Dorothy, Dorcas, Manners, Oswald) The west wind howls [7.52] [7:52] 6. Storm [3.03] ACT 2- Scene 2 7. Recit & Song (Major Domo, Sir George) Silence all! Attend your host! - In days of old [3.02] 8. Scene (Company) Eloped, eloped! [1.11] [1:11] 9. Duet (Rupert, McCrankie) and Chorus We were sheltering all ' [3.34] [3:34] 10. Scene (Lady Vernon & Company) In vain they will blunder [2.51] [2:51] ACT 3 11. Opening Chorus Our heads we bow [1.54] [1:54] 12. Song (Lady Vernon) and Chorus Queen of the garden [4.27] [4:27] 13. Recit (Lady Vernon, Sir George) Alone-alone! [1.11] [1:11] 14. Duet (Lady Vernon, Sir George) Bride of my youth [2.35] [2:35] 15. Scene (Dorcas, Rupert, three Girls) and Chorus In frill and feather [1.31] [1:31] 16. Ensemble (Oswald & Company) Good General Monk . [2.24] [2:24] 17. Song, Chorus and Dance (Dorcas, Rupert, Puritans) We have thought the matter out [2.06] [2:06] 18. Song and Scotch Dance (McCrankie)and Chorus Hech, mon! Hech, mon! It gars me greet [3.12] [3:12] Finale Act 3 19. Ensemble (Company) Hark! The cannon! [5.17] SYNOPSIS dear little dormouse) [3]. Dorothy now To thine own self be true, arrives on the scene, accompanied by her And it must follow as the night the day, parents Sir George and Lady Vernon (Hail to Thou canst not then be false to any man. the Lord of Haddon) [4] and the assembled (Shakespeare) company all join in a merry madrigal (Welcome, I bid ye welcome - When the NOTE: The clock of Time has been put budding bloom of May) [5]. Sir George is a forward a century, and other liberties have Royalist but, dreading the vengeance of been taken with history. Parliament, he has decreed that Dorothy must CD 1. marry her cousin Rupert Vernon, a Roundhead who is claiming the Haddon Act 1: The Lovers - Scene: The Terrace. estates as his own. Despite her father's wishes Dorothy will have none of her "The green old turrets, all ivy thatch, Above Roundhead cousin for she is in love with the cedars that girdle them rise, The pleasant John Manners, a younger son of the Duke of glow of the sunshine catch, And outline sharp Rutland and a proscribed Royalist. She on the bluest of skies" pleads with her father (Nay, father dear) [6] During a brief musical introduction [1] and as he leaves she is comforted by her offstage voices can be heard extolling the mother who assures her of her support virtues of the English stately homes. The (Mother, dearest mother) [7]. curtain then rises to reveal the chorus of Manners' servant, Oswald, now arrives on the simples and gentles singing and dancing on scene disguised as a travelling salesman the terrace of Haddon Hall as they prepare for the arrival of Dorothy, the daughter of the (Ribbons to sell - Come, simples and gentles) house, who is about to "plight her troth" to [8]. He has with him a letter from his master, her cousin, Rupert (To-day, it is a festal time) addressed to Dorothy, and when he meets [2]. Dorcas, Dorothy's faithful maid, is Dorcas he entrusts the letter to her care. The apprehensive about the outcome of such a two are immediately attracted to each other wedding and she tells the assembled and sing of the joys of youth (The sun's in the company the allegory of the dormouse and sky) [9]. Dorothy now arrives (My mistress the snail (But midst our jubilation - 'Twas a comes) [10] and is given the letter (Oh, tell me, what is a maid to say) [11]. {APPENDIX: In the original version of Act Oswald and Dorcas now withdraw so that 1, item 12 above was not performed. At that Dorothy can read the letter in private and she stage in the action Dorothy, Oswald and rhapsodises about her sweetheart, John Dorcas exited and John Manners appeared Manners (Why weep and wait? - Red of the and soliloquised on his love for Dorothy (The rosebud) [12]. earth is fair) [20]. Dorothy then joined him in a rapturous duet (Sweetly the morn doth As Dorothy leaves, the stage is suddenly break) [21] before the lovers left to make filled by a lugubrious group of plain-chant way for the entrance of the Puritans. Sullivan Puritans who accompany the arrival of was unhappy with this arrangement and Rupert Vernon (Down with princes) [13]. wrote the solo for Dorothy to replace these Rupert is already tiring of the Puritan cause, two items} as he makes clear to the assembled crew (I've heard it said) [14]. The villagers now reassemble to meet the bridegroom (Finale: The bonny bridegroom cometh) [15] but when they see Rupert and his miserable colleagues they are somewhat taken aback. Rupert assures them that they should not be deceived by first impressions (When I was but a little lad) [16]. The bridal party now arrives (Hail, cousin Rupert) [17] but it is immediately obvious that all is not well when Dorothy falls on her knees and pleads with her father not to insist that she goes through with such a sham marriage (When, yestereve, I knelt to pray) [18]. Sir George furiously spurns his daughter and the act ends in general turmoil (Father, forgive!) [19]. CD 2. with Dorcas before Manners himself arrives (Finale: The west wind howls) [5]. Dorothy Act II: The Elopement - Scene 1: Dorothy then arrives and the two lovers run off into Vernon's Door. the night, escorted by Oswald, as the storm "It is a night with never a star, And the hall breaks in all its fury [6]. with revelry throbs and gleams; There grates As the storm dies away the scene changes: a hinge - the door is ajar -And a shaft of light in the darkness streams." Scene 2: The Long Gallery. Rupert and his Puritan friends are found Sir George and Lady Vernon are discovered, sheltering from a storm (Hoarsely the wind is with the assembled company, and a Major howling) [1] as they await the arrival of their Domo demands attention for Sir George as he Scottish colleague, The McCrankie, whose proposes a toast to "the grand old days of late arrival is to be expected as he has been yore" (Silence all! Attend your host! - In days travelling all the way from the Isle of Rum. of old) [7]. Rupert, The McCrankie and some When he arrives, he accompanies himself on other Puritans now rush in, dragging Dorcas his national instrument, the bagpipes (My with them. Rupert informs Sir George that his name it is McCrankie) [2]. Rupert and The daughter has eloped with her lover (Eloped, McCrankie tell the others to leave them alone as they propound the "Puritan programme of eloped) [8] and they proceed to tell everyone posterity" (There's no one by) [3].
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