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LIBRETTO BY MUSIC BY Sir William S.Gilbert Sir Arthur S.Sullivan
PRODUCED BY Janell Lovelace
DIRECTED AND DESIGNED BY MUSICAL DIRECTION AND Melissa S.Craib AUDIO EDITING Dombrowski Joanna Sisk-Purvis
VIDEO EDITING BY TECHNICAL ADVISING BY John Paul Middlesworth Mark & HD Welker
PROPERTIES BY HAIR & MAKEUP BY Lisa Hirsh Pam Guidry-Vollers
GRAPHIC DESIGN BY COSTUMES BY Evelyn McCauley Marian Anders
This performance is made possible in part by a grant from the Durham Arts Council’s Fletcher Performing Arts Fund (durhamarts.org) of the Triangle Community Foundation (trianglecf.org). Durham Savoyards shows are supported in part by grants from the Durham Arts Council’s Annual Arts Fund, the N.C. Arts Council (ncarts.org), a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, and the Manbites Dog Theater Fund (manbitesdogtheater.org). Financial information about this organization and a copy of its license are available from the State Solicitation Licensing Branch at 919-807-2214. The license is not an endorsement by the State. 3 Players
Patience...... ELEANOR HANNA Lady Ella...... HANNAH LINGAFELT Lady Saphir...... LAYLA DOUGANI Lady Angela...... LEO BEVINGTON Lady Jane...... KIM KINGSLEY Reginald Bunthorne...... NICK MALINOWSKI Archibald Grosvenor...... JOHN PAUL MIDDLESWORTH The Duke of Dunstable...... ERIN CONN Colonel Calverley...... JOS PURVIS Major Murgatroyd...... STEVE DOBBINS
Chorus of Maidens Marcia Bridges, Ada Brown, Christine Eckermann-Ross, Madonna Evans, Pam Guidry-Vollers, Mary Elizabeth Guy, Elizabeth Raines, Pam Stewart, Ruth Winecker
Chorus of Dragoons Bobby Cameron, Chris Newlon, Kent Parks, Pat Roos, HD Welker
Royal Chorus Karen Gray, Hank Hankla, Tamzin Kinnett, Cathy Lambe, Richard Palmer, Michael Rowe, David Smith, Dave Sulzen, Courtney Thornton, Robin Trew, Shiangtai Tuan
4 The Tradition We invite you to sing along with our In September 1745 the “Young Pretend- God Save the Queen virtual chorus er” to the British Throne, Prince Charles and orchestra. Edward Stuart, defeated the army of King George II at Prestonpans, near Edinburgh. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN In a fit of patriotic fervour after news of God save our gracious Queen, Prestonpans had reached London, the lead- er of the band at the Theatre Royal, Drury Long live our noble Queen, Lane, arranged “God Save the King” for God save the Queen. performance after a play. It was a tremen- Send her victorious, dous success and was repeated nightly thereafter—a practice that soon spread Happy and glorious, to other theatres. Eventually it became a Long to reign over us, tradition to greet the monarch with the God save the Queen. song as he or she entered a place of public entertainment.
“I know only two tunes. One is ‘God Save the Queen’— the other isn’t.” –W. S. Gilbert
5 Musical Numbers Episode 1 Twenty love-sick maidens we...... Maidens, Angela, Ella Still brooding on their mad infatuation...... Patience, Saphir, Angela, Chorus I cannot tell what this love may be...... Patience
Episode 2 The soldiers of our Queen...... Dragoons, Colonel In a doleful train...... Maidens, Ella, Angela, Saphir, Dragoons, Bunthorne When I first put this uniform on...... Colonel, Dragoons
Episode 3 Am I alone and unobserved?...... Bunthorne Long years ago, fourteen maybe ...... Patience, Angela Prithee, pretty maiden...... Patience, Grosvenor Though to marry you would very selfish be...... Patience, Grosvenor
Episode 4 Let the merry cymbals sound (Act I Finale)...... Ensemble
Episode 5 On such eyes as maidens cherish...... Maidens Sad is that woman’s lot...... Jane Turn, oh, turn in this direction...... Maidens A magnet hung in a hardware shop...... Grosvenor, Maidens
Episode 6 Love is a plaintive song...... Patience So go to him and say to him...... Jane, Bunthorne It’s clear that mediaeval art...... Duke, Major, Colonel If Saphir I choose to marry...... Duke, Colonel, Major, Angela, Saphir
Episode 7 When I go out of door...... Bunthorne, Grosvenor I’m a Waterloo House young man...... Grosvenor, Maidens After much debate internal (Finale)...... Ensemble Closing Credits...... Orchestra
6 DURHAM SAVOY OPERA ORCHESTRA
Conductor Bassoon Joanna Sisk-Purvis Charles Gragg
Orchestra Manager Flute I Tanner Lovelace Jasmine McKewen
Violin I Flute II/Piccolo Frederic Ayala Joanna Sisk-Purvis
Violin II Trumpet Rebecca Lee Bruce Klitzman
Viola Trombone Nicolle Tulve Christina Thompson
Bass French Horn Tanner Lovelace Sandy Svoboda, Richard Lehner
Clarinet Percussion Shirley Violand-Jones Andrew Munger
Oboe Guide Tracks Anne J. Menkens Joanna Sisk-Purvis, Cole Swanson
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7 Production Staff
Graphic designers: Charlie Register, Technical director: Ben Morgan Leo Bevington, James Vollers, Technical support assistants: Mark Welker Erin Conn, Pam Guidry-Vollers, Program producer: Katherine Zeph Ruth Winecker Program assistants: Ada Brown, Virtual set construction: Every member Janell Lovelace, Meaghan Morgan, of the on-screen cast Norman Owen, David Smith Volunteer Coordinator: HD Welker Stage manager: Donna Cavallo
ADDITIONAL 2020 STAGE SHOW CONTRIBUTORS Director/Choreographer/Graphic Database manager/Scribe: Beth L. Rowe designer: Derrick Ivey Lighting designer: Chuck Cattoti Master carpenter/Photographer: New member mentors: Kent Parks, Mark Welker Lia Fitzgerald Set designer: James Vollers Painting manager: HD Welker Board members: Michael Rowe, Publicity team: Michael Rowe, Courtney Thornton, Kim Kingsley Beth L. Rowe, Miranda Crenshaw, Lead roles: Stuart Albert, Ada Brown, Katherine Zeph, Janell Lovelace Lauren Hussey, Michael Rowe, Set construction & painting crew: Savanna Steele Lyle Bass, Randy Bridges, Bobby Cameron, Understudies: Marcia Bridges, Christine Eckermann-Ross, Jamie Fitzgerald, Bobby Cameron, Steve Dobbins, Lia Fitzgerald, Charles Guidry, Lia Fitzgerald, Mary Elizabeth Guy, Mary Elizabeth Guy, Ken Hirsh, Savanna Steele, HD Welker, Ruth Winecker Lisa Hirsh, Houston Horn, John Klinges, Stage chorus: Lizanne Estes, Lia Fitzgerald, Janell Lovelace, John Paul Middlesworth, Bruce Stewart, Courtney Thornton Ben Morgan, Richard Palmer, Pat Roos, Royal chorus: Marian Anders, Kip Ross, Bruce Stewart, Katie Stoffel, Carolyn Harris, Ken Hirsh David Sulzen, Robin Trew, Shiangtai Tuan, Assistant conductor: Chelsea Huber James Vollers, Michael Vollers, HD Welker, Orchestra members: Margueritte Cox, Mark Welker Jenni Scoggin, James Tyler-Walker Ticket & t-shirt sales: Karen Gray, Orchestra substitutes: Norton Dickman, Cathy Lambe, Pam Stewart Dave Goodman, Mark Hill, Kathy Silbiger Warehouse angels: Ada Brown, Accompanists: Betty Romani, Ben Wechsler Steve Dobbins, Lizanne Estes, Assistant stage manager: Jamie Fitzgerald Mary Elizabeth Guy, Carolyn Harris, Costume team: Mary Elizabeth Guy, John Paul Middlesworth, Meaghan Morgan, Carolyn Harris, Lauren Hubbard, Pat Roos, Savanna Steele, HD Welker, Sharon Nieves, Dorothy Smith, Pam Stewart, Mark Welker, Ruth Winecker HD Welker, Mark Welker Dance captain: Pam Guidry-Vollers Football coach: Michael Vollers
8 Argument
Our story begins in an online chat room obligation to true love through suffering as with the dedicated and love-sick fans of Regi- Bunthorne's wife. nald Bunthorne, a fashionably "emo" poet The lovesick maidens catch sight of Ar- and social influencer. While Bunthorne loves chibald Grosvenor, a bohemian chic social the attention from his fans, there is not one influencer. To the dismay of the Dragoons - lady in his fandom that he loves. His cap is set and Grosvenor - they transfer their adoration on Patience, an authentically down to earth to him. Grosvenor does his best to discourage and ethical young lady, untainted by fashion, the ladies and dissuade their interest. who has never lost her head over love. Self- Bunthorne misses the adoration of his fan- conscious about having not yet been in love, club. Jane (his oldest and most devoted fan) she gleans from her peers that true love re- helps him develop a plan to regain popular- quires "utter unselfishness." Henceforth, she ity. He corners Grosvenor and demands that dedicates herself to the noble pursuit of lov- his rival become utterly ordinary; Grosvenor ing another (any other!) while believing that happily accepts! Patience then realizes that true love requires the lovers to suffer. Grosvenor's total lack of extraordinary quali- Meanwhile, the Dragoons (a rather disci- ties allows her to love him wholeheartedly. plined group of business partners who got Duke of the Dragoons selects the plain Jane their degree in the right subject at the right to be his bride, and the other fangirls return to school and now work for the right company their fiancés, leaving Bunthorne alone. to ensure their professional success and com- fort) return after a short absence to find that their former fiancées no longer find them suit- able prospects. The Dragoons, however, have dedicated themselves to following the rules, and are perplexed not to easily find their "hap- pily ever after." Patience logs onto an online game to do some anonymous flirting and "own" the com- petition. She discovers that her competitor is Archibald Grosvenor, a beloved friend she has not spoken with for many years! She loves him! He loves her! They're happy about it! But, Patience remembers that love requires suffering in order to be pure. She cuts off the budding relationship and resolves to suffer/ love Bunthorne. While Grosvenor is disap- pointed, he's a supportive sort of fellow and amiably goes along with what Patience wants. Bunthorne decides to monetize his bachelor status, and auctions himself to be married via a raffle. All of his fans line up in the hopes of becoming his bride! Patience crashes the party and proclaims that she will fulfill her
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10 Glossary
ACT I. Roderick: Subject of a poem by Sir Walter Cynosure: A centre of attraction. Scott. Receipt: Recipe. Paddington Pollaky: Ignatius Paul Pollaky Paget: Sir Joseph Paget (1814-99), an (d. 1918), London’s first eminent private eminent surgeon and pathologist. detective. He had an inquiry office at no. 13 Jullien: Louis Antoine Jullien (1812-60), Paddington Green from 1865 until 1882. a French-born conductor who organized Odalisque: An Eastern female slave or concerts and operatic performances at Drury concubine, especially in a Turkish Sultan’s Lane. harem. Macaulay: Thomas Babington Macaulay Sir Garnet: Sir Garnet Wolsley (1833-1913), (1800-59), the Whig politician whose mag- much-admired British General. num opus was The History of England. The Stranger: Tragedy by Benjamin Boucicault: Dion Boucicault (1822-90), Thompson based on a German tale about a Irish actor and playwright. Count who leaves his wife and roams the Sodor and Man: Horatio Powys (1805-77) world known only as “The Stranger.” was Bishop of Sodor and Man from 1854 Richardson’s show: A travelling show until his death and stringently upheld the that included melodrama, pantomime, etc.; rights of the See through much litigation. a major attraction at Victorian fairs. D’Orsay: Count Alfred D’Orsay (1801-52), Mr. Micawber: A character in Dickens’s a leader of fashion in Paris and London and David Copperfield who frequently suffered celebrated dandy. temporary financial embarrassments and was Victor Emmanuel: Victor Emmanuel II always expecting something to turn up. (1820-78), king of Italy. Madame Tussaud: The waxwork modeller Peveril: Sir Geoffrey Peveril is the hero of who came to England in 1802. Sir Walter Scott’s novel Peveril of the Peak. Fleshly: Carnal or sensual. Doctor Sacheverell: Henry Sacheverell Amaranthine: Unfading. (1672-1724), English clergyman, convicted Asphodel: A plant of the lily family, the of libel for criticizing the government in two immortal flower of Elysium. sermons. Calomel, Colocynth, Aloe: Plants used as Mr. Guizot: François Guizot (1787-1874), laxatives. French politician and historian. Empyrean: Formed of pure fire or light; Mephisto: Mephistopheles, a made up name refined beyond aerial substance, pure. for a medieval devil. Della Cruscan: Affectedly sentimental Lord Waterford: Henry Beresford, 3rd school of poetry started by Englishmen in Marquis of Waterford (1811-59), a well- Florence in the eighteenth century. known practical joker who met his death Hessians: A type of boots worn by troops, while hunting. invented in the German state of Hesse.
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Peripatetics: Wanderings. It is also the Monday Pops: Popular series of classical term given to the philosophy of Aristotle, music concerts organised by Chappell’s, the who used to walk about as he taught his music publishers, and held in St. James’s followers. Hall. Elysian Fields: The abode of the souls of Francesca di Rimini: An Italian lady of the the virtuous in Greek mythology. 13th century who committed adultery with Aceldama: A field of blood or scene of her husband’s brother. Her story was great slaughter; originally the potter’s field immortalized in Dante’s “Inferno”. purchased with the money given to Judas Miminy-piminy: An expression meaning for betraying Jesus. over-refined, finicky. Pandean pleasure: Pan, the Greek god who Chancery Lane: A street in the area of presided over shepherds and their flocks, de- London occupied by courts and the legal lighted in rural music, and is often depicted profession. A “Chancery Lane young man” playing his row of pipes. translates as a lawyer’s clerk. Daphnephoric: Daphne, a nymph who Somerset House: A large and imposing rejected every lover. She was pursued by building housing many Government Depart- Apollo and was changed into a laurel tree ments over the years. A “Somerset House to escape his attentions. young man” could be a junior civil servant. Blue and white: Blue and white oriental Greenery-yallery: Green and yellow were ceramics were fashionable in the 1870s and colours much favoured by the Pre-Rapha- 1880s. elites. Grosvenor Gallery: Gallery founded by ACT II. Sir Coutts Lindsay in 1877 where the Pearly grey: Face powder. Pre-Raphaelites exhibited. Decalet: A ten-line poem. Sewell & Cross, Howell & James: High- Emetical: Nauseating (or worse). class drapers and costumiers in Soho and Quiddity: A captious nicety in argument; Regent Street respectively. a quirk or quibble. Waterloo House: A large and imposing Botticellian, Fra Angelican: Like the Regency building near Trafalgar Square works of the early Renaissance artists which was occupied by another leading Botticelli (c.1445-1510) and Fra Angelico drapery firm, Halling, Pearce, and Stone. (1400-1455). Swears and Wells: A famous firm of furri- Half-bred black-and-tan: A mongrel dog ers and costumiers. so colored. Madame Louise: A fashionable Regent Hops: Informal dances. Street milliner.
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MARIAN ANDERS (Costume Designer) STEVE DOBBINS (Major Murgatroyd) joined the Savoyards in 2014. She has per- has worn many hats for the Durham Savo- formed in the Royal and Stage Choruses and yards since 2002, including nine years on the as Baroness von Krackenfeld in The Grand Board of Governors. Many thanks to Rafy for Duke. She served as Costumer for the past two nudging him onto the stage, to Derrick for 18 years; Patience is the first show for which she brilliant years, and to Melissa and Joanna for has designed the costumes. joining the team. FREDERIC AYALA (Violin) received his LAYLA DOUGANI (Lady Saphir) is ex- B.Mus. in violin performance at the UNC cited about her first appearance with Durham School of the Arts as a student of Kevin Law- Savoyards! With a background in opera and a rence and the Mendelssohn String Quartet. vocal performance degree from Furman, Layla Aside from all the great times spent with the thinks love-sick maiden beats her recent role Savoyards, he also serves as Concertmaster as mother in Hansel and Gretel. She works as for the NC Bach Festival and performs near a personal trainer, and as a group fitness and & abroad. yoga instructor. LEO BEVINGTON (Lady Angela) is excited CHRISTINE ECKERMANN-ROSS to rejoin the Savoyards for their second G&S (Stage Chorus) has been performing with the production! Now living in Michigan, Leo is the Durham Savoyards since 2011 and is happy to proud owner of seven chickens, who provide be a part of this new adventure! both inspiration and breakfast. MADONNA EVANS (Stage Chorus) is an MARCIA BRIDGES (Stage Chorus, u/s erstwhile thespian, professional word nerd, Lady Jane). Cinderella, Gondoliers, Radio amateur herbalist, cinephile, Hoosier, night Gals,/ Mikado, Music Man were theater pals,/ owl, list maker, and sweatpants enthusiast. Pinafore, Grand Duke, and Little Shop,/ But She lives it up in Tucson, Arizona, with her stint in Patience really tops./ Talented cast, partner and two dogs. This is her second G&S directing great,/ Working with Savoyards al- production. Anyone want to start a Tucson ways first rate./ Playing music by day/ dancing, Savoyards? singing by night,/ Keeps Marcia happy, winter CHARLES GRAGG (Bassoon) says bas- days bright. soon has been very good to him. He thanks ADA BROWN (Stage Chorus, Social Chair) teachers Rollin Tuttle, June Partch, James has performed as a Durham Savoyard: Mrs. Houghston, and Dr. J. M. A. “Tony” Danby. Partlett in The Sorcerer, Tipseion in the Music camps helped too: Hartwick, Crane, premier of Alan Riley Jones’ Thespis, and Fred Waring, and Glickman Popkin Bassoon Gertrude in Gilbert’s Rosencrantz and Guil- Camp. He plays the same Kohlert his Mom denstern. She also writes speculative fiction, bought him in 1963 at Hickey's. plays oboe, and (pre/post pandemic) sings for KAREN GRAY (Royal Chorus). Having The New Horizons Swing Band. completed the entire canon – some of it sev- ERIN CONN (Duke of Dunstable) is excited eral times – she decided to retire from stage. to play their first named role after years of ap- Excited to be in this virtual production even pearing in the chorus and understudying. Erin if sight unseen! She can imagine herself in the also plays the French horn and sings with the Royals box, drinking champagne and singing. Raleigh Convocation Choir.
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PAM GUIDRY-VOLLERS (Stage Chorus, TAMZIN ROSE KINNETT (Royal Chorus) Hair & Makeup Designer) proudly joins the is thrilled to return for her third Savoyards Savoyards for her 24th production. A stage production, after being on stage in Ruddi- performer since debuting in The Mikado in gore and in the boxes for The Mikado. She 4th grade, Pam completes the G & S canon as spends her time fighting for justice as a public a performer with this production of Patience. defender and listening to her 8-year-old son She has designed hair & makeup for the Savo- philosophize. yards since 2001. JOHN KLINGES (Stage Chorus) is happy to MARY ELIZABETH GUY (Stage Chorus) be back in the G&S world, last appearing in the has run out of fingers to count on as Patience 2018 Savoy Company’s production of Iolanthe marks her eleventh spring production with the at the International G&S Festival in Harrogate, Savoyards. She is overwhelmingly grateful for England. Recently, he sang in the Delaware everyone whose hard work and financial sup- Valley Opera’s (PA) productions of Donizetti’s port make these shows possible. Thank you, L'Elisir d'Amore and Gounod’s Faust. thank you, thank you, and enjoy! BRUCE KLITZMAN (Trumpet) is the HANK HANKLA (Royal Chorus) is delighted longest-running trumpeter in Savoyards history to return to the royal chorus for his seventh (19 years). In 1969, he appeared on the cover Savoyards production. Thanks again to every- of Playboy magazine (it was the entertain- one who makes a contribution of time, talent, ment guide to Rehoboth and Ocean City that labor, money, or supportive enthusiasm. He is pre-dated Hefner). He is a brand new grandpa! particularly appreciative of the support of his CATHY LAMBE (Royal Chorus) has been wife, Judith. English, Chinese, Italian, German, and South ELEANOR HANNA (Patience) is thrilled Sea maiden in her 39 years with the Savoyards. to join the Savoyards for the first time. She Also novice nun, dancing maid, Venus, fairy, studied with Catherine Charlton and Dr. Terry and now royalty. Offstage, she is a Master Rhodes and sang Miss Todd in The Old Maid Gardener, a Habitat ReStore volunteer, and a and the Thief and Mother Abbess in The Sound student of improv. of Music. She has no formal milkmaid experi- REBECCA LEE (Violin) is a software devel- ence, but throughout quarantine has eaten lots oper, potter, swing dancer, and scuba diver who of ice cream. has been fiddling around with the Savoyards LISA HIRSH (Properties Designer and Man- since 2005. She dedicates this performance in ager). Her last foray into Bunthorne’s love life, memory of Norton Dickman and Sam Ham- 2006, was her first as DS, Ltd. Props Mistress. mond, and thanks her wonderful husbandcito, The secret of non-melting ice cream cones is mischievous monkey, and laughing lion for still classified. Lisa’s lifelong dream of being their Patience. Queen was realized in 2017’s The Grand Duke; RICHARD LEHNER (French Horn) is a “I doubt I’ll ever top it!” retired Public TV and Radio General Manager. KIM KINGSLEY (Lady Jane) is honestly He has taught at Indiana University and the thrilled to be portraying Lady Jane, the matron- University of Florida. He plays with the Cha- ly maiden, in this year’s production. Patience pel Hill Philharmonia, the Durham Medicine was her first show with the Savoyards in 2006, Orchestra, and the Old North State Brass and and she has thoroughly enjoyed performing in has played with ensembles in Florida, Indiana, each of the operettas since then. and North and South Carolina.
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HANNAH LINGAFELT (Lady Ella) is de- JOHN PAUL MIDDLESWORTH (Grosve- lighted to perform with the Savoyards for the nor, Video Editor) has split his time on stage first time! Hannah studied classical voice and is between singing in choruses and musicals and grateful to have the opportunity to use it again. acting in plays by Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, When not singing forlornly over unrequited David Mamet, and others. He video-recorded love, Hannah works as a psychotherapist and Trial by Jury/Thespis in 2017 and has been a music therapist in private practice. devoted Savoyard ever since, moving from the camera to the chorus the next year. JANELL LOVELACE (Producer) is de- lighted to complete the super-canon in her MÉRIDA NEGRETE (Clarinet) from Edin- thirteenth 14th year with DSL. She’s grateful burg, Texas, holds degrees from the University to everyone in the Savoyard family for being of Michigan and SMU. She’s a Lecturer in Mu- bright spots in a difficult year. Special thanks sic and Faculty Advisor at UNC. In addition, to Derrick and Melissa. Here's to 25 more years she performs with numerous orchestras, wind with hubby Tanner! ensembles, and chamber music groups through- out the area. She maintains a teaching studio TANNER LOVELACE (Double-bass, Or- where she teaches clarinet and music theory. chestra Manager, Producer's Sanity Engineer) used to spend most of his time training for and CHRIS NEWLON (Stage Chorus) has en- racing Ironman triathlons until COVID took joyed performing with the Savoyards since them away. He can't wait until they start up 2001, including lead roles as Robin in Rud- again. He has been with the Savoyards since digore, Fredric in Pirates and the Duke in 2007 and finally finishes the super-canon with Patience. He is thrilled to be zooming around Patience! Love to Janell & Bram. with his Savoyard family again in 2021. NICK MALINOWSKI (Bunthorne). At age KENT PARKS (Stage Chorus, New Member 13, Nick’s operatic rendition of “Pigaro!” won Coordinator), a Savoyard since 2003, can now him first prize at a local hog calling contest. check off 12 of the 14 works of the Gilbert & He’s been performing ever since. He has a Sullivan super-canon – "Is not this preposter- Master of Music from Mannes College and ous??" By day, he is a research programmer/ has specialized in the operas of Puccini and analyst at RTI International. Wagner. JOS PURVIS (Colonel Calverley) is de- JASMINE MCKEWEN (Flute) studied flute lighted to be joining his wife Joanna for this performance at the Crane School of Music and production and to be returning to the Savoyards with Nathan Zalman at UNC. She has recently after a 24-year hiatus! He rather hopes the next performed in local productions of Seussical and production will involve fewer webcams but just Mary Poppins and performs regularly with the as many pet cameos. Durham Flute Choir. ELIZABETH RAINES (Stage Chorus) is ANNE MENKENS (Oboe) has played in a thrilled to return for her second Durham Savo- variety of Triangle-area musical groups, includ- yards production. She has spent the last year ing the Village Band (oboe and trumpet) and singing in virtual choirs, listening to podcasts the Durham Medical Orchestra (oboe). She has while working in her garden, and navigating also sung in Voices–The Chapel Hill Chorus the world of virtual learning with her children. and their ensemble, Cantari, and currently sings She is grateful to her family for their love and with Women's Voices Chorus of Chapel Hill. support.
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PAT ROOS (Stage Chorus, Non-Equity COLE SWANSON (Accompanist) is a PhD Deputy) has done far more of these shows than student in Musicology at Duke University, she can count. She remains in awe of how much and part-time accompanist, conductor, musi- work people you don’t see on stage (on your cal director, and composer. He works with computer) are doing to get this show up and several musical theater groups in the area. He running, and she hopes you enjoy our alterna- lives in Durham with his fiancée Kirsten and tive staging! If you’d like to understand more their cat Isaac, whom he thanks for their love about what the NED does and why, please take and support. a look at www.notinourhouse.org. CHRISTINA THOMPSON (Trombone) has MICHAEL ROWE (Royal Chorus) is per- been making a twisty piece of plumbing sing forming his first Patience. Recent portrayals: since 1992. The Mikado (Mikado), Sir Roderick Mur- COURTNEY THORNTON (Royal Chorus) gatroyd (Ruddigore), Sparkeion (Thespis), is excited to participate in her fourth production Counsel for the Plaintiff (Trial by Jury), Dr. with the Durham Savoyards. Tannhäuser (Grand Duke). Past Roles: Sir Bailey Barre (Utopia), Samuel (Pirates), Pish- ROBIN TREW (Queen Victoria) is honored Tush (Mikado), Timodon (Thespis), and Ernest by and grateful for the support of her loyal Dummkopf (Grand Duke). subjects in her fifth Durham Savoyards, Ltd., show, twelfth different Gilbert & Sullivan DAVID SMITH (Royal Chorus) is retired from comic opera, and eighteenth Gilbert & Sullivan the Duke faculty and has appeared in over 50 production. G&S productions in 41 years as a Savoyard. Other recreations, mostly shared with Doro- SHIANGTAI TUAN (Royal Chorus), starting thy, his wife of 63 years: St. Philip’s Choir; as an apprentice of The Sorcerer in 1977, has Prime Time Players; 13 grandchildren, four fired all fourteen canons of G&S at least once. great-grands. Madama Butterfly's cook, Don Giovanni's ser- vant, the Magic Flute carrier in Bulgaria were PAM STEWART (Stage Chorus) is excited his career. Musetta used him to make Rodolfo to be back for the second go of her fourth show jealous in Café Momus, Raleigh. with the Savoyards after a long hiatus. She is retired from Habitat for Humanity and lives in NICOLLE TULVE (Viola) has been playing Raleigh with her husband Warren, her sewing viola with the Savoyards orchestra for several machine, her garden, and her bicycle. years. She knows several G&S productions by song, dance, and words without ever see- DAVID SULZEN (Royal Chorus) is a retired ing what’s happening on stage. Nicolle would accounting professor who hopes to never retire like to acknowledge the many years she shared from singing and dancing. Bringing joy to a stand, viola music, and laughs with Norton self and others through music and dance is his Dickman. His mastery of the viola and fun in mission in life. the pit will be missed. SANDY SVOBODA (French Horn) began her Savoyard career with The Mikado in 1982. She teaches Fench horn and trumpet privately, conducts the Piedmont Wind Ensemble, and is owner of Allegro Music Sales, which sells sheet music for brass and woodwinds. In real life she is the Purchasing Officer/Budget Analyst for Carrboro.
16 Company, continued 2020-21 BOARD OF GOVERNORS SHIRLEY VIOLAND-JONES (Clarinet) is returning to the Savoyard orchestra for yet ELECTED OFFICERS another year! Her other performing experiences President: Pam Guidry-Vollers include the Durham Symphony, Long Leaf Op- Past President: Bobby Cameron era, Triangle Opera, Raleigh Symphony, Raleigh Vice President: Civic Symphony, Henderson Rec Players, Duke John Paul Middlesworth Medicine Orchestra, Carolina Clarinet Quartet, Tuscarawas Philharmonic, Virginia Opera, and Secretary: Lia Fitzgerald the North Carolina Symphony. Business Manager: Robin Trew
HD WELKER (Stage Chorus, Volunteer Co- Members At-Large: ordinator, Technical Advisor). Before the world Mary Elizabeth Guy, Pat Roos turned upside down, she had traditional roles. APPOINTED OFFICERS Now, in the land of Zoom, she swapped those for unofficial Covid Safety Consultant and Tech Sup- Concert Producer: Noelle Paull port (while still singing). Thanks, Mark (Dork) Music Librarians: for the support! Kim Kingsley, Tanner Lovelace MARK WELKER (Technical Advisor). When Producer/Website Manager: face masks were only a concern for set construc- Janell Lovelace tion, he was guiding the set build and taking Publicity Team: Courtney Saffie, pictures. Now in the land of Zoom he is a Tech Anna Thomson, James Vollers Consultant, Tech Educator, and Rogue Agent. Social Director: Ada Brown Thanks, HD (Dorkette) for the support! Wardrobe Manager: Marian Anders RUTH WINECKER (Stage Chorus) completes Warehouse/Storage Manager: the G&S canon of full length operettas with Ben Morgan Patience. She has enjoyed years of performing with this hard-working group that resulted in ac- We are actively seeking a DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR. complishing this personal goal. When not singing Contact [email protected] or feeding the warehouse crew, she enjoys an if you are interested in this position. interesting career as a forensic scientist.
In Memoriam
Daryl Conner Carol Sackett Sue Coon Jim Sackett Norton Dickman Harrell Tice Sam Hammond Joyce Weiser Patti Meekison Diane Woodard Kerry Nelson
17 Director / Designer Musical Director MELISSA S. CRAIB DOMBROWSKI DR. JOANNA SISK-PURVIS, Dr. Joanna brings over 25 years’ experience working Sisk-Purvis, a.k.a. “Jo,” is delighted to be in professional musically direct- theatre and edu- ing her first show cation to the with the Savoyards after playing prin- Durham Savo- cipal flute for nine yards. She was shows. While she the first recipient had been looking of the Charles H. forward to finally Hume Memo- seeing everything rial Award for happening on the Theatre Scholarship and has studied with stage from the best spot in the pit, she's had the programs at California State University, a blast putting together all the audio for the Sacramento and the Oregon Shakespeare Fes- virtual production and would like to thank tival. She received her BA (Hons) Degree in every Savoyard for their flexibility, good hu- Drama and Theatre Studies from Middlesex mor, and of course, patience. As a bonus, Jo's husband Jos was convinced to join the vir- University (London, UK). Melissa’s work has tual cast… ha ha, once a Savoyard, always a been recognized in regional awards including Savoyard! She has been music director and Best Director, Best Adapted Script, and Best sometime pianist for youth and community Choreographer. Her directing credits include theaters in Los Angeles and NC for shows in- Urinetown, Godspell, Romeo and Juliet, Ole- cluding Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, Sound anna, All in the Timing, and We. Her favor- of Music, Narnia, Alice in Wonderland, An- ite acting roles include Narrator from Joseph nie, Cats, Seussical Jr., and more. She was and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and also conductor of the Piedmont Youth and Jenny from Threepenny Opera. Family Orchestra for several years. A cham- pion of living composers, Joanna ran a new music ensemble in Los Angeles for two years and commissioned and performed mu- sic from several now well-known compos- ers, including Andrew Norman, Vincent Ho, THANK YOU! and Bear McCreary. She has performed as flutist with orchestras and chamber ensem- Randy & Cathy Lambe bles, and for theatrical productions in Los Angeles, Chicago, and the Triangle. Joanna for their sponsorship holds performance degrees from UNC-Cha- of WCPE 89.7 FM pel Hill, Northwestern, and the University of Southern California. She has taught music at Beer Durham Carolina Friends School since 2008. She also for hosting socials writes stories and books for young people, and donating a portion composes music for a variety of ensembles, of the proceeds to us and plays piano for an improvised musi- cal comedy team. Joanna lives in the woods Chapel Hill School of Orange County with her husband, three of Musical Arts children, and far too many animals. for donating recording space
18 19 Librettist WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT (1836- 1911), born in Lon- don, took training as an artillery officer and was tutored in military science. He showed a proclivity for caustic wit and sarcasm from an early age, and it was this talent that put him on the path to greatness. Landlord/Tenant Beginning in 1861, he contributed dramatic Homeowner Associations criticism and humorous verse (unsigned) to Real Estate Title the popular British magazine Fun. Some of Wills and Estate Administration his work was accompanied by cartoons and Consumer Bankruptcy sketches, signed “Bab” (his childhood nick- name). Many of the characters in the Savoy operas were modeled after characters in these drawings. Gilbert was knighted by King Ed- ward VII in 1907 and died in 1911, at age 74, while attempting to save a drowning woman. Composer ARTHUR SEYMOUR SULLIVAN (1842- 1900) was born in London to a very musical family, and by the age of ten he had mastered all of DURHAM ARTS COUNCIL the wind instruments in his father’s band at In-person and online classes and camps the Royal Military College. One of the leading Public festivals and performances composers of the day, Sullivan had influential Artist grants and guidance friends in every circle of society including Rotating exhibits many monarchs in Europe. He composed Event Rentals “Onward Christian Soldiers” and several @durhamarts @durham_arts major choral works, including his lone grand durhamarts.org • [email protected] opera, Ivanhoe. From 1872 until his death in 1900, Sullivan suffered from extremely painful kidney stones, and it is said that his most beautiful music was composed while he endured great pain. He was knighted by 20 Queen Victoria in 1883. The Durham Savoyards, Ltd.
It all began on Twelfth Night, 1963. A for Gilbert and Sullivan—The Durham party was the occasion for the playing Savoyards, Ltd. was born. of prized recordings of Iolanthe and The Now we are in our sixth decade, and Pirates of Penzance. Two years earlier, on dozens of us have had the glorious honor the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Sir of being a part of at least one production William Gilbert, the Savoy Operas entered of each of the thirteen extant G&S oper- the public domain under British copyright ettas. In putting on our shows, we have law and could be produced by any group been clumsy clodhoppers and professional who so desired. Against this background, bridesmaids, bucks and blades, jurors, citi- Pat Kenan discussed with David Martin and zens of miscellaneous towns, countries, and his other guests the perfect combination of utopias; we have been ancestors, gondolieri Gilbert’s incisive satire and Arthur Sulli- and contadine, gentlemen of Japan, raptur- van’s sparkling music. It was an irresistible ous maidens, schoolgirls, daughters of the lure. With speed, enthusiasm, and support plough, peers and peris, daughters, pirates, from the Durham Theatre Guild, and with policemen, and noblemen who have gone a name taken from Richard D’Oyly Carte’s wrong, all under the proud banner of The London Savoy Theatre—built specifically Durham Savoyards, Ltd.
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21 The Durham Savoyards, Ltd.Performance History
The Works of Gilbert and Sullivan The Pirates of Penzance (1880)...... 1963, 1968, 1978, 1988, 1999, 2005, 2013 H.M.S. Pinafore (1878)...... 1964, 1970, 1980, 1992, 2002, 2007, 2016 The Mikado (1885)...... 1965, 1972, 1982, 1993, 2003, 2010, 2019 Ruddigore (1887) ...... 1969, 1979, 1990, 2004, 20051, 20061, 2018 Trial by Jury (1875) ...... 1970, 1975, 1984, 1989-902 , 20083, 2017 The Gondoliers (1889)...... 1966, 1974, 1985, 1996, 2009 Iolanthe (1882)...... 1967, 1976, 1987, 1998, 2012 Patience (1881)...... 1971, 1983, 1994, 2006, 2020-21 The Yeomen of the Guard (1888) ...... 1973, 1984, 1995, 2008 The Sorcerer (1877) ...... 1977, 1989, 2001, 2014 Princess Ida (1884)...... 1975, 1991, 2011 Utopia Limited (1893)...... 1981, 19974, 2015 The Grand Duke (1896)...... 1986, 2000, 2017 Thespis (1871)...... 20045, 20175 Sing Me a Story...... 20116
1 Special cabaret-style Halloween version. 2 Also on this program was Places, Please!, A Savoyard Symphony by Benjamin Keaton, which premiered in 1988 and was performed again in 1989, 1990, 1998, and 2013. 3 Also on the program was a concert of The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan. 4 Utopia (Un)Limited: a major revision by Benjamin Keaton and Randolph Umberger. 5 With new music composed by Alan Riley Jones, fully orchestrated for the 2017 performance. 6 An arrangement of Gilbert and Sullivan songs with scenes by Alan Riley Jones.
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