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Music by Richard Rodgers: Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates a gentle, if determined, millworker, Julie Jordan. They marry, but Billy loses his job and Julie becomes pregnant. In the famous “Soliloquy,” he expresses his excitement and concern about the responsibilities of fatherhood. Intent upon providing a decent life for his family, Billy aids in a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent “up there.” Allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, haunted by her father’s reputation as a thief and bully. Selflessly, Billy restores a sense of hope and dignity to both the child and her mother, in a dramatic testimony to the power of love.

Directed by Steve Foster


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HMS Pinafore & Trial By Jury: February 2014

by Gilbert & Sullivan

H.M.S. PINAFORE, or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. PINAFORE was Gilbert and Sullivan’s fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation

Can you sue someone for breaking off an engagement? In Gilbert and Sullivan’s courtroom farce TRIAL BY JURY, it’s a very serious crime! The story concerns a ‘breach of promise of marriage’ lawsuit in which the judge and legal system are the objects of lighthearted satire. Gilbert based the libretto of TRIAL BY JURY on an operetta parody that he had written in 1868.

Director & Choreographer: Steve Foster
Musical Director: David Blackwell


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