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PATIENCE
Once again our spring fare (March 2007) will feature a classic Gilbert and Sullivan opera -- this time Patience,
produced by the same artistic team of Robert Binder, Paul Salter and Arlene Chertoff
that brought you The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe and HMS Pinafore.
A wildly satiric opera, Patience lampooned the aesthetic craze of the 1880’s, but is essentially a send-up
of a human folly that is always with us: the blind cult-worship of media personalities and fads. Patience is a
village milkmaid, untutored in love, who is caught between the annoying attentions of a poseur poet, Bunthorne
(who lives on public adoration,) and his rival, the self-described “apostle of beauty,” Grosvenor, who seeks to
hide his “fatal attraction” from the masses. Enter a regiment of Dragoon Guards, who were once engaged to the local
ladies who now flock after the poets, and you have a brilliant clash of temperament, wit and infectious music.
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| Colonel Calverley | Marc Zell |
| Major Murgatroyd | Isaac Katz |
| Duke of Dunstable | Isaac Katz |
| Reginald Bunthorne | Howard Metz |
| Archibald Grosvenor | Daniel ??????? Gregory Wolfe |
| Mr. Bunthorne's Solicitor | Isaac Katz |
| Lady Angela | Rachel Cohen |
| Lady Saphir | Rachel Cohen |
| Lady Ella | Rachel Cohen |
| Lady Jane | Rachel Cohen |
| Patience | Aviella Trapido |
| Rapturous Maidens | Rachel Cohen Gila Staum Rachel Miskin Shira Rosenschein Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen Rachel Cohen |
| Dragoon Guards | Isaac Katz Jeff Rosenschein Isaac Katz Isaac Katz Isaac Katz Isaac Katz Isaac Katz Isaac Katz Isaac Katz Isaac Katz Isaac Katz Isaac Katz |
