Season: Autumn 1994
(Performed with Trial By Jury)
Dramatis Personae:
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- Æsculapius Carboy -- A chemist in love with Laetitia:
- Ronald S. Herman
- Eliza Smith -- A perfectly virtuous and highly principled young lady, in charge of the Refreshment Stall:
- Pamela Good
- Thomas Brown -- But really, The Duke of Islington, a nobleman disguised, in search of virtue which he finds in Eliza:
- Bill Hammond
- Laetitia -- Loved by Carboy:
- Anne Virgil
- Laetitia's sister:
- Amanda Lobaugh
- Mr. Grinder -- Laetitia's father, a grocer:
- David Schafer
- Chorus -- Ladies and Gentlemen of the Great British Public:
- Scott Baros, Julia Ferreira Benedict,
Terry Benedict, Lynette Blake,
Tracy Burdick, Richard Burns, James Caffrey,
Eileen D'Esterno, Christine M. Dettman,
Peter Scott Dunbar, Nancy A. Galletto,
Stephen M. Gullo, Isabel T. Henry, Lindsay Holmes,
Cathy Lazaroff, James Loehr, Mary Lyubomirsky, Linda Minier,
Patricia A. Montrois, Scot Zaffora-Reeder,
Jean Ryon, Bob Weeks,
Sarah Zaffora-Reeder
Production Staff:
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- Director:
- Byron Wilmot
- Musical Director & accompanist:
- Leanne DeVane
- Producer:
- Bob Weeks
- Costumes:
- Maryanne Lettis
- Lighting Design:
- Michele Denber
- Props:
- Bodie McCaffrey
- Stage Manager:
- Rob Ciaccia
- House Manager:
- Jordu Kelly
- Program Illustration:
- Sarah Freeman
- Publicity:
- Christine M. Dettman
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Notes
Gilbert and Sullivan's first collaboration, Thespis, ran for barely a month in 1872 and then vanished. The
two parted company for a time, teaming up again three years later when a one-act operetta was needed to round out a
program featuring Offenbach's La Perichole. This musical dessert was Trial By Jury, and it soon proved
more popular than the main course. Sullivan and Rowe's The Zoo, written to follow a play by Gilbert, opened at
another theatre three months later and was clearly an attempt to capitalize on the success of Trial. It never
achieved the same popularity and all but disappeared until 1966, when the musical score surfaced at an auction at
Southby's. In both operas, Sullivan's spirited music makes deft allusions to the conventions -- and pretensions --
of Grand Opera. And, as there is no spoken dialogue in either show, it's an evening of wall-to-wall Sullivan.
Photos by Katherine M. O'Donnell
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Last updated: 01/09/08
