[conspire] The Yeomen of the Guard, Dinklespiel Auditorium, Stanford U.

[Rick Moen]

Deirdre and I saw this afternoon's performance, and is was delightful.
Note that there are four more performances scheduled, including one
tomorrow afternoon.

This was close to the last Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, and more of a
tragicomedy than their regular frothy comedies:  The characters are much
more well rounded, and one of the principals even ends up devastated at
the end.  The piece also includes the most haunting duet song the pair
ever wrote.


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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:48:23 -0800
From: Stanford Savoyards <stanfordsavoyards at gmail.com>
To: savs-announce at lists.stanford.edu
Subject: [savs-announce] The Yeomen of the Guard Opens TONIGHT

The Stanford Savoyards Proudly Present Their Winter 2015 Production:

Gilbert & Sullivan’s

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD

Friday, 1/30 at 8 pm

Saturday, 1/31 2 pm

Sunday, 2/1 at 2 pm

Friday, 2/6 at 8 pm

Saturday, 2/7 at 8 pm

Sunday, 2/8 at 2 pm

All performances will be fully staged with orchestra in Dinkelspiel
Auditorium, located at 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA 94305.

Tickets: $20 General; $15 Seniors and Stanford staff/faculty with ID; $10
children and students w/ ID.

The Dinkelspiel Box Office opens 1 hour prior to show-time for same day
sales and Will Call pickup. *Please see a cast or staff member,
call 650.725.2787 <650.725.2787>, or visit the Stanford Ticket Office
<http://sto.stanfordtickets.org/> for advance ticket sales starting
Wednesday, 1/28.*

Love, intrigue, and comedy are in the air in London in 1515! Sweet Phoebe
Meryll loves Colonel Fairfax; Fairfax is utterly oblivious. Assistant
Tormentor & Chief Jailer of the Tower of London, Wilfred, loves Phoebe;
Phoebe finds him oafish and abhorrent. Jack the jester loves Elsie, the
dancing girl; Elsie sees him more like a brother and colleague. Meanwhile,
the Yeomen of the Guard love their peaceful job guarding the Tower of
London...until their routine takes a topsy-turvy turn when a mysterious new
soldier joins their regiment. With Colonel Fairfax accused of sorcery and
sentenced to meet his doom at the headsman’s block, to whom will he turn
for solace, a reprieve, or … short-lived matrimonial bliss? A rollicking
musical tale of deception, devotion, duty, and (dare we say?) death, The
Yeomen of the Guard is a show not to be missed!

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