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Worley Barton Theater at Brentwood Christian School
11908 N. Lamar | Map |Seating Chart |
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BUY ONLINE or call 512-474-5664 Tickets by phone available M-F 10am-6pm & Sat 10am-4pm
Note: If you order online, your seats will be auto-selected. To choose specific seats, please order by phone . |
| Advance purchase: $25 Adults | $15 Students over 18 with i.d. | $7 for 18 & under |
| Price at the Door:
$30 Adults | $20 Students over 18 with i.d. | $10 for 18 & under |
| Opening Night Thursday, June 13th:
Special $5 Discount for adults and students |
Group Sales: For discounted group sales of 10 or more, contact Michael Meigs
512-420-0888 or michael@gilbertsullivan.org |
Ticket service fees apply on all categories of ticket
Tickets may also be purchased at the Long Center box office
Please note that performance start times have changed from previous seasons.
Evening Performances at 7:30pm - Matinees at 2pm |
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| 9 PERFORMANCES |
| Thursday |
June 13 |
7:30pm |
Preview |
| Friday |
June 14 |
7:30pm |
Opening Night
Free Gala follows performance |
| Saturday |
June 15 |
7:30pm |
Evening Performance |
| Sunday |
June 16 |
2pm |
Matinee
Children's Activities at 1pm |
| Thursday |
June 20 |
7:30pm |
Evening Performance |
| Friday |
June 21 |
7:30pm |
Evening Performance |
| Saturday |
June 22 |
2pm
7:30pm |
Matinee
Evening Performance |
| Sunday |
June 23 |
2pm |
Matinee
Closing Performance |
All performances will be supertitled
Please note that performance start times have changed from previous years |
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 The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin summer 2013 Grand Production will be Princess Ida, or Castle Adamant. We are performing this classic, which was Arthur Sullivan & W. S. Gilbert’s eighth comic opera out of fourteen, for the first time in our history. Sullivan’s score is majestic, and a sequence of songs in Act II is so renowned for its beauty that it is sometimes called "the string of pearls." Some consider Gilbert’s libretto one of his funniest.
Artistic Director Ralph MacPhail, Jr., and Music Director Jeffrey Jones-Ragona return, along with Production Manager Bill Hatcher.
This melodic and hilarious comic opera features proto-feminist Princess Ida, the daughter of King Gama. The princess has founded a women's university from which all men are barred, and she and her faculty teach that women are superior to men and should rule in their stead. Romantic Prince Hilarion, to whom Ida had been engaged in infancy, sneaks into the university along with two friends with the aim of claiming Hilarion’s bride. They disguise themselves as women students but are soon discovered, their male invasion instigating a hilarious war between the sexes.
 Princess Ida satirizes feminism, women’s education, masculine pugnacity and militarism, grand opera, and Darwinian evolution, some of which were controversial topics in conservative Victorian England. It is based on a narrative poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson called “The Princess” (1847); Gilbert had written a farcical musical play based on the poem in 1870. In 1884, he lifted much of the dialogue of Princess Ida directly from his 1870 farce.
This is the only three-act Gilbert & Sullivan opera. Princess Ida opened at the Savoy Theatre on January 5, 1884, for a run of 246 performances, and since that time it has never been out of the standard repertory of Gilbert & Sullivan (or Savoy) operas throughout the English-speaking world. |
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| DRAMATIS
PERSONAE |
King Hildebrand (bass-baritone)
Hilarion, King Hildebrand's Son (lyric-tenor)
Cyril, Hilarion's Friend (tenor)
Florian, Hilarion's Friend (tenor)
King Gama (comic baritone)
Arac, King Gama's Son (bass)
Guron, King Gama's Son (bass-baritone)
Scynthius, King Gama's Son (bass-baritone)
Princess Ida, King Gama's Daughter (dramatic-soprano)
Lady Blanche, Professor of Abstract Science (contralto)
Lady Psyche, Professor of Humanities (soprano)
Melissa, Lady Blanche's Daughter (mezzo-soprano)
Sacharissa, Girl Graduate (soprano)
Chloe, Girl Graduate (speaking role/chorus)
Ada, Girl Graduate (speaking role/chorus) |
| CHORUSES |
Soldiers
Courtiers
Girl Graduates
Daughters of the Plough
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