New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players

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New York Season

It’s time to celebrate New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ 37th birthday! No cake is required... just your presence will be present enough for us! To that end, you are cordially invited to our season-long party of preposterous productions and clever songs that remind you what life with Gilbert & Sullivan is all about - fun, frivolity and foolishness on a grand scale.

Order your tickets today and guarantee your place among the many thrilling tunes, hilarious heroes, clever maidens and happily ever afters.

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1. 

   Opening Gala

   Another bottle of champagne, another opening.. Join the fun as New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players’ Artistic Director Albert Bergeret and his merry crew present their annual champagne gala performance of favorite G&S scenes, songs, parodies, overtures, and the ever-popular tour-de-force challenge audience requests performed impromptu with full orchestra. Enjoy a complimentary glass of bubbly at intermission.

   Performances

   • Sunday, October 16, 2011, 5:00pm

2. 

   The Grand Duke

   Don’t play your cards right! When Ludwig gets into a statutory duel – by cards rather than weapons – he lets slip a conspiracy to bring down the mean-spirited Grand Duke. Instead, Ludwig is made Grand Duke for a day, and is to be married. And married. And married again, as several seek to take their place by his side. Of course, everything has been based on a misunderstanding, as this twisted and hilarious tale comes to a happy close.

   Performances

   • Sunday, November 13, 2011, 5:00pm

3. 

   The Pirates of Penzance

   At least they’re employed. Set sail with this classic comedy that boasts one of the most famous patter songs in musical theatre history. On the coast of Cornwall, a band of tenderhearted pirates celebrates the coming of age of Frederic, who was mistakenly apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday. Now, Frederic has vowed to devote his life to the extermination of piracy - until a ludicrous leap year snag threatens to keep him apprenticed to the pirates for life! Throw in a bevy of beauties, a brash Pirate King, the delightfully stuffy Major- General Stanley and you’ve got what The New York Times calls AN ENDEARING PRODUCTION WITH HIGH MUSICAL STANDARDS AND SPIRITED PERFORMANCES.

   Performances

   • Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 3:00pm - Bring Your Grandparents Day - Respect your favorite elders with a backstage tour featuring the character of your choice following the performance!
   • Thursday, December 29, 2011, 7:00pm - Savoy Dialogue - Enjoy a dazzling discourse about all matters G&S with members of the cast and the NYGASP artistic staff before the show! (5:30-6:30pm in the theater)
   • Friday, December 30, 2011, 8:00pm
   • Saturday, December 31, 2011, 3:00pm - Family Overture - You're invited to a free musical introduction and plot summary made entertaining and informative for the entire family. (1:45pm in the theater)
   • Saturday, December 31, 2011, 8:00pm - New Year's Eve Gala - G&S’s most beloved score, The Pirates of Penzance, and a little bubbly at intermission is just the beginning. An exclusive invitation to the cast party afterward, completes the elegant affair.
   • Sunday, January 1, 2012, 3:00pm

4. 

   Patience

   Another celebrity couple gone bad. Patience, the sweet and vivacious village milkmaid, is the only lady in town who isn’t infatuated with the self-styled poet, Reginald Bunthorne. But she still believes it’s her duty to take Bunthorne off the market... until Archibald Grosvenor, another self-absorbed aesthete whose fatal curse is “to be madly loved at first sight by every woman” he comes across, arrives. Let the battle for public, and private, affections begin!

   Performances

   • Sunday, March 11, 2012, 5:00pm

5. 

   lolanthe

   Multi-species marriages. Discuss. The fairy Iolanthe has been banished for marrying a mortal, but the Fairy Queen is convinced to grant her a pardon 25 years later and help her son unite with his love. But the girl’s guardian, the Lord Chancellor, wants her for himself, leading to an admission that unravels everyone’s plans, and a simple but powerful change in the fairy code: all fairies must marry mortals!

   Performances

   • Saturday, May 19, 2012, 3:00pm
   • Saturday, May 19, 2012, 8:00pm
   • Sunday, May 20, 2012, 3:00pm