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2024 | The Sorcerer

PERFORMANCES:
Pay-what-you-wish open dress rehearsal on Thursday, March 7th at  7:00pm
Friday, March 8th 7:00pm
Saturday, March 9th 7:00pm
Sunday, March 10th 2:00pm
Friday, March 15th 7:00pm
Saturday, March 16th 2:00pm
Sunday, March 17th 2:00pm

TICKETS: $20 for adults, $12 for students, and $8 for age 12 and under.

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!

Many thanks to our media sponsor, WERU Community Radio!


Cast

Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre:
Roland Dube

Alexis:
Rogan Winch

Dr. Daly:
Pepin Mittelhauser

Notary:
Joe Marshall

John Wellington Wells:
Aidan Pasha

Lady Sangazure:
Debbra Hangge

Aline:
Celeste Mittelhauser

Ms. Partlet:
Sara Phillips

Constance:
Alexandria Winch

Creatives & Technical

Music and Stage Director:
Deiran Manning

Lighting Designer:
Theo Dumas

Scenic Designer:
Peter Miller

Costuming Team:
Dotti Schaller
Celeste Mittelhauser
Pepin Mittelhauser

Stage Manager:
Tanya M. Bell

Props:
Kahlan Hanle

Costumes for Aline, Dr. Daly & J.W. Wells:
Daaby Tingle

Lighting Operators:
Lorelei Wehrfritz &
Sara McDonald

Choreographer:
Ashley Terwilliger

Production Coordinator:
Judy Fraser

Rehearsal Accompanist:
Jessica Mehre

Tech Crew:
Jillian Sanner & Jeannie Kell

Orchestra

Violin:
Cynthia Priem (concertmaster)
Melissa Ruiz
David Reiley
Dean Booher
Denise Smith

Viola:
Dede Johnson

Cello:
Tom Riesgo
Kathleen Caldwell

Bass:
David Quinby
Michael Ward

Flute:
Deirdre McArdle
Judy Fraser

Clarinet:
Cliff Guthrie
Ed Michaud

Oboe:
David A. Woolsey

Bassoon:
Peter Ossanna

Trumpet:
Jeannie Nadeau
Craig Raisner

Horn:
Ryan Grainer
Hannah Dewey

Trombone:
Janet Higgins

Percussion:
Lynette Woods

GSSME Receives Maine Theater Grant from The Maine Community Foundation

We are delighted to announce that The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine is one of the recipients of Maine Community Foundation’s Maine Theater grant for 2023/24!

These funds will help GSSME produce its upcoming, fully-staged production of Gilbert & Sullivan’s operetta The Sorcerer performed with full orchestra at The Grand Theatre on Main Street in Ellsworth plus additional revue shows drawing from the duos’ prolific works.

THANK YOU!

2023 | The Pirates of Penzance

GSSME presents one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s best known operettas, The Pirates of Penzance at The Grand in Ellsworth!

When Frederic finishes his apprenticeship with a band of notoriously tender-hearted orphaned pirates, he thinks his life as an upstanding citizen can finally begin! But his high ideals and a budding romance are soon threatened when the scheming pirate king discovers a loophole in Frederic’s piratical contract…

Packed with pirates, puns, police, and a modern major paradox, this witty swashbuckling adventure will delight the whole family!

PERFORMANCES
Friday, March 10th at 7:00 PM
Saturday, March 11th at 2:00 PM
Sunday, March 12th at 2:00 PM

Friday, March 17th at 7:00 PM
Saturday, March 18th at 7:00 PM
Sunday, March 19th at 2:00 PM

Pay-what-you-want open dress rehearsal: Thursday, March 9th at 7:00 PM, no advance tickets needed!

All performances are at The Grand in Ellsworth

$25 adults, $15 students, and $10 for 12 and under

Many thanks to our media sponsor, WERU Community Radio!


Cast

Pirate King:
Pepin Mittelhauser

Frederic:
Zachary Field

Samuel:
Sam Hallman

Ruth:
Debra Hangge

Edith:
Sara Phillips

Kate:
Kahlan Hanle

Isabel:
Nayeli Monahan

Mabel:
Celeste Mittelhauser

Major-General Stanley:
Roland Dube

Sergeant of Police:
Maurice Joseph Marshall

PIRATES:
Di Klausmeyer
Don Pendley
Jamie Creed
Shawnna Farley
Linda Firlotte Grindle
Max Jordan
Peter Miller
Ronald S. Marsh
Jarod Smith
Travis Burpee

WARDS:
Amelia McKay
Catherine Hanle
Courtney Schusheim
Katheryn Miller
Nikki McKay

CHAPERONES:
Alison Cox
Carol Friedman
Dotti Schaller
Sandy Smallidge
Terri-Ann Anderson
Tish Noyes

POLICE:
Aidan J. Pasha
David Porter
John M. Cunningham
Sam Cousins
Steve Johnson

Creatives & Technical

Music and Stage Director:
Deiran Manning

Lighting Designer:
Susan Dunham Shane

Scenic Designer:
Peter Miller

Costume Designer:
Daaby Tingle

Stage Manager:
Tanya M. Bell

Props Master:
Shawnna Farley

Production Assistant:
Jessie Walker

Rehearsal Accompanist:
Jessica Mehre

Tech Crew:
Jillian Sanner & Jeannie Kell

Orchestra

Violin:
Cynthia Priem (concertmaster)
Caroline Beckwith
William Somes
Freddie LaPorte
Dean Booher
Denise Smith

Viola:
Byron DeGrave

Cello:
Tom Riesgo
Kathleen Caldwell

Bass:
David Quinby
Michael Ward

Flute:
Deirdre McArdle
Judy Fraser

Clarinet:
Cliff Guthrie
Ed Michaud

Oboe:
David A. Woolsey

Bassoon:
Peter Ossanna
Jean Roberts

Trumpet:
Craig Raisner

Horn:
Brian Booher
Hannah Dewey

Trombone:
Candace Hart

Percussion:
Lynette Woods