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Thursday 29 July 1999 |
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Gilbert & Sullivan Rarities:
Music from the Cutting-Room Floor
Severnside Theatre Ensemble
Leader: Geoff Short
Musical Director: Bruce I Miller
with special guests
Michael Rayner and Jean Hindmarsh
also featuring
Leon Berger
Camilla Bassett-Smith, Sue Black, Patrick Briddon, David Johnson, Robert Kay,
Fiona McNaughton, Christine Manifold, Liz Organ, Paul D Scott, Joan Self
Programme
The Mikado: Something could possibly be more satisfactory
The Yeomen of the Guard: The Missing Link
Iolanthe's Multiple Personality Disorder
HMS Pinafore: Reflections on "Reflect my child" (includes the World premiere performed by Michael Rayner and Jean Hindmarsh with orchestral accompaniment)
The Pirates of Penzance The Kitchen Sink Finale
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| Helga Perry and Bruce Miller |
Bruce Miller conducting the orchestra and soloists - Jean Hindmarsh and Michael Rayner - in the World Premiere performance of "Reflect, my child" |
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Children are the future and the festival was established with children very much in mind. Three years ago there was a Buxton group of children performing The Mikado with adult principals. In 1997 there was a chorus of approaching 200 Californian school children backing adult principals in a performance of The Mikado in Berkeley. And in the last two years in Buxton there was a Children's Festival Production of Trial by Jury in 1997 involving children from all around the world. Last year a full HMS Pinafore - once again auditioned, rehearsed and staged within one week - was produced. So successful was the show that the forumula has been repeated this year with Patience. |
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Patience
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| Twenty love sick maidens | I cannot tell what this love may be (Patience) |
If you want a receipt for that popular mystery (The Colonel) |
So I joined this second-class Cavalry Regiment (The Duke) |
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| There, every mother's son | Cling passionately to one another and think of faint lillies (Bunthorne with Lady Jane) |
Will you please read it to us, sir? (Lady Jane, Bunthorne and Lady Angela) |
I may say, at once, I'm a man of propertee (Patience and Grosvenor) |
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| We will never, never part! (Patience and Grosvenor) |
A hideous curse on his solicitor - Ian Smith guesting as the oldest child in Buxton | I hear the soft note | Oh, list while we a love confess |