The Yeomen of the Guard

This October, the Connecticut Gilbert & Sullivan Society will be performing Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard. Performance dates and times are October 19th, 2:00PM and 7:30PM and October 20th 2:00PM. All performances are at Valley Regional High School, 256 Kelsey Hill Rd., Deep River, CT. This is a fully staged production with sets, colorful costumes, choreography, and a 24 piece professional orchestra. Supertitles for the musical numbers will be projected above the stage as a courtesy for the hearing impaired. The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid, is different from the other Gilbert and Sullivan operas. While it is full of humor, it also has a pathos not seen in any of their other operettas. The most operatic of all their shows, both Gilbert and Sullivan consider Yeomen to be their finest work. [the following extract is from the G&S Archive] The setting of Yeomen is the Tower of London in the sixteenth century. The plot concerns Colonel Fairfax, a gentleman, soldier and scientist, who has been sentenced to death on a false charge of sorcery. To avoid leaving his estate to his accuser (a cousin), and with the help of the Lieutenant of the Tower, Fairfax secretly marries Elsie Maynard, a strolling singer. The bride agrees to be blindfolded during the ceremony and expects to be a well-paid widow within the hour. With the help of the Meryll family, Fairfax escapes, throwing the Tower into confusion and the astonished Elsie (and her companion, the jester Jack Point, who is in love with her) into despair. But Fairfax, disguised as Leonard Meryll, woos Elsie, and after a number of plot complications are worked out, she falls in love with Fairfax and leaves Jack Point broken-hearted.

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