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Ruddigore
Saturday, November 23, 2024 - 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, November 24, 2024 - 3 PM
Despite its title, Ruddigore is neither gory nor scary. This topsy-turvy take on stock melodrama characters includes a group of professional bridesmaids, a village maiden who is wedded to her book of etiquette (with hilarious results), a timid suitor in disguise, a charming but backstabbing heroic sailor, a hysterical mad maiden, and a picture gallery of ghostly ancestors who step out of their frames in a most dramatic fashion. When the disguised suitor is revealed by his brother to be a Bad Baronet with the family curse of being required to commit a crime each day, roles get reversed and the logical comment of the mad girl puts the proceedings in proper comic relief with her proclamation: “They sing choruses in public. That’s mad enough I think.”
Run Time: 2 hours and 55 minutes with one intermission
The Pirates of Penzance
Saturday, January 4, 2025 - 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, January 5, 2025 - 3 PM
Saturday, January 11, 2025 - 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, January 12, 2025 - 3 PM
Everyone has pretended to be a pirate at some point. 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 stuff y Major-General Stanley and you’ve got what The New York Times calls “AN ENDEARING PRODUCTION WITH HIGH MUSICAL STANDARDS AND SPIRITED PERFORMANCES.”
Run Time: 2 hours and 40 minutes with one intermission
Iolanthe
Saturday, April 5, 2025 - 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Sunday, April 6, 2025 - 3 PM
When mixing it up with mere mortal politicians, lighter spirits can pay a heavy price. Just ask the fairy Iolanthe, banished 25 years ago for marrying a Peer of the Parliament. But now the Fairy Queen has granted her a full pardon, and Iolanthe’s back in town, along with her son Strephon. He’s half fairy, half mortal, and totally in love—as is the Lord Chancellor and every other Peer…with the very same girl! It’s certainly not politics as usual, as the affairs of state in fairyland take center stage, the tasty tunes take wing and hilarity takes the day.
Run Time: 2 hours and 40 minutes with one intermission
All performances (except October 19th) at the Gerald W. Lynch Theatre at John Jay College
524 West 59th Street, New York, NY (Between 10th and 11th Avenues)
while our home at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College undergoes renovations