THE SORCERER
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Friday March 1st, 6pm @ Hammond Hall, Winter Harbor, ME
Best-laid plans go comically awry when love-addled do-gooder Alexis sets out to abolish the artificial barriers of rank, wealth, beauty, and age in his sleepy English village by enchanting the unmarried townsfolk to fall madly in love with each other en masse from peer to pauper. With his reluctantly supportive fiancée Aline at his side, Alexis hires the local Sorcerer and dealer in magic and spells, J.W. Wells, to spike the townsfolk’s tea with his patent, love-at-first-sight potion.
With a demon-summoning sorcerer offering reasonable rates and bulk discounts, a tampered teapot, and a town incapacitated by an impending onslaught of weddings, this satire on polite English society in the vein of The Importance of Being Ernest and Downton Abbey will delight the whole family!
The Sorcerer, Gilbert and Sullivan's first full-length successful operetta, opened on November 17th, 1877 at the Opera Comique Theatre just off the Strand in London where it ran for 178 performances.
Directed by Deiran Manning, and accompanied by The Downeast Chamber Orchestra, this production features many talented performers from the area including some familiar faces (Roland Dube as the class-obsessed Sir Marmaduke, Joe Marshall as the deaf Notary, Debra Hangge as the bittersweet Lady Sangazure, Aidan Pasha as the shrewd businessman and sorcerer J.W. Wells, Celeste Mittelhauser as the hopeful bride Aline, and Pepin Mittelhauser as the mostly eloquent Dr. Daly), some returning faces (Sara Phillips in her second role with GSSME as Mrs. Partlet, Rogan Winch returning to GSSME after ten years as the high-minded Alexis), and some new faces (Alexandria Winch as the lovelorn Constance).
The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine has been presenting the comic operas of W.S. Gilbert & A. Sullivan in Ellsworth since 1977. GSSME was thrilled to be the recipient of a Maine Theater Grant through the Maine Community Foundation this year. More about the Society can be found at www.gilbertsullivanmaine.org/
Best-laid plans go comically awry when love-addled do-gooder Alexis sets out to abolish the artificial barriers of rank, wealth, beauty, and age in his sleepy English village by enchanting the unmarried townsfolk to fall madly in love with each other en masse from peer to pauper. With his reluctantly supportive fiancée Aline at his side, Alexis hires the local Sorcerer and dealer in magic and spells, J.W. Wells, to spike the townsfolk’s tea with his patent, love-at-first-sight potion.
With a demon-summoning sorcerer offering reasonable rates and bulk discounts, a tampered teapot, and a town incapacitated by an impending onslaught of weddings, this satire on polite English society in the vein of The Importance of Being Ernest and Downton Abbey will delight the whole family!
The Sorcerer, Gilbert and Sullivan's first full-length successful operetta, opened on November 17th, 1877 at the Opera Comique Theatre just off the Strand in London where it ran for 178 performances.
Directed by Deiran Manning, and accompanied by The Downeast Chamber Orchestra, this production features many talented performers from the area including some familiar faces (Roland Dube as the class-obsessed Sir Marmaduke, Joe Marshall as the deaf Notary, Debra Hangge as the bittersweet Lady Sangazure, Aidan Pasha as the shrewd businessman and sorcerer J.W. Wells, Celeste Mittelhauser as the hopeful bride Aline, and Pepin Mittelhauser as the mostly eloquent Dr. Daly), some returning faces (Sara Phillips in her second role with GSSME as Mrs. Partlet, Rogan Winch returning to GSSME after ten years as the high-minded Alexis), and some new faces (Alexandria Winch as the lovelorn Constance).
The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine has been presenting the comic operas of W.S. Gilbert & A. Sullivan in Ellsworth since 1977. GSSME was thrilled to be the recipient of a Maine Theater Grant through the Maine Community Foundation this year. More about the Society can be found at www.gilbertsullivanmaine.org/
