It’s a stretch to make this slight 19th-century satire speak to a modern audience, and tremendous singing is not enough to make it do so here It’s now most of a theatre-going lifetime since Gilbert ...
SUDBURY — The Sudbury Savoyards, a local performing arts group, are set to begin their 63rd season with a production of "Ruddigore" next month, officials announced in a press release. This operetta by ...
The Broadway musical did not originate on Broadway. It started at London’s Savoy Theatre with the sparkling work of W.S. Gilbert & Arthur Sullivan. These theater titans created a special sort of ...
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The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players return to City Center for a ten-performance stint of four operettas, comprising the so-called big three Pinafore,” “Pirates” and “Mikado” plus “Ruddigore.” The ...
It’s not as well known as “H.M.S. Pinafore” or “The Pirates of Penzance,” but “Ruddigore,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s scariest operetta, remains a delightful Gothic confection that features a witch’s ...
In “Ruddigore: or The Witch’s Curse,” Gilbert and Sullivan set themselves the task of exaggerating an exaggeration. They did it, and Light Opera Works’ production of the operetta takes the process a ...
An auditorium packed with an audience of all ages was crackling with anticipation before Opera North’s new production of Ruddigore. One of Gilbert & Sullivan’s lesser-known operettas was receiving its ...