 The College Light Opera Company (CLOC) is proud to present The Gondoliers as its upcoming production.
Twenty years earlier, Casilda, the infant daughter of the Duke of Plaza-Toro, was married to the infant son of the King of Barataria. Shortly thereafter, the prince was stolen by the Grand Inquisitor and given to a Venetian gondolier for safekeeping, or so he thought. The gondolier raised this boy alongside his own son. The boys, now gondoliers Marco and Giuseppe, are oblivious to the fact that they are not brothers and that one is actually the king. The throne of Barataria has become vacant and the destitute Plaza-Toro’s have come to Venice to lay claim to the throne for their daughter. The Grand Inquisitor admits that he doesn’t know which gondolier is the real prince and sends for the prince’s nurse to clear up the confusion. The Grand Inquisitor informs Marco and Giuseppe that one of them is the king and orders them to report to Barataria at once, permitting them to take their male friends, and await the royal determination. Having just married Gianetta and Tessa, the gondoliers and their fellow gondoliers bid their wives farewell. Three months have passed, Marco and Giuseppe have remodeled the monarchy on republican principles of equality, and installed their gondolier friends as the new court where “all may equal be.” Tessa and Gianetta arrive and all celebrate a joyous reunion. The Grand Inquisitor informs the wives that one of their husbands is married to Casilda, but he does not yet know which. The Duke and Duchess, now flush with cash as a result of their proximity to the throne, arrive in state with Casilda as they too are awaiting the royal determination. Realizing that one of the two gondoliers will be their son-in-law, they attempt to educate them in the ways of courtly etiquette. Finally, the king’s nurse is brought forth to reveal the identity of the king. But which gondolier will it be? Stage Director David Ward and Music Director Mary Marcell lead this production. This production will be followed this season by CLOC’s final production of the 2015 season, Me and My Girl. Ward, originally from New York, NY, holds degrees from the University of Houston. Marcell, originally from Greenwich, CT holds degrees from Smith College and the Hartt School of Music. The cast is full of new and returning CLOC vocal company members. Talents to look forward to include Matthew Brennan as Don Alhambra Del Bolero, The Grand Inquisitor (From Chicago, IL - Vanderbilt University ’14), Isabella Dawis as Gianetta (Minneapolis, MN – University of Minnesota ’13), Blake Gronlund as Marco Palmieri (Detroit, MI - Western Michigan University), Evan Woods Gunter as Giuseppe Palmieri (Rainbow City, AL - Samford University ’17), Maggie Langhorne as Casilda (Santa Barbara, CA – Oberlin Conservatory ’16), Jim Miller as The Duke of Plaza- Toro (Fort Wayne, IN - Wright State University ’16), Katharine Nunn as The Duchess of Plaza-Toro (Haslett, MI - Michigan State University ’16), Abigail Rice as Tessa (Canandaigua, NY - Gettysburg College ’16), and Christopher Sapp as Luiz (Resaca, GA - University of Georgia ’16). The Gondoliers will run Tuesday, August 18th through Saturday, August 22nd at 8 p.m., with a Thursday Matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $36 and are available by calling the CLOC Box Office at 508-548-0668 or by visiting the CLOC Box Office, 58 Highfield Drive, Falmouth (open Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., and 7:00 –9:00 p.m.). For more information, please visit www .CollegeLightOperaCompany .com.  The passengers of the RMS Titanic wave goodbye as they cast out on the fateful maiden voyage. The College Light Opera Company (CLOC) is proud to present Titanic as its upcoming production
Titanic begins as Thomas Andrews, the architect of the great ship, pores over the blueprints of his design. The curtain then rises to reveal the Ocean Dock in Southampton, England, where people are gathering to wonder at and to board the ship on sailing day: first a stoker, then additional crewmen, officers and stevedores, the owner, the architect and the captain, the Third and Second Class, and finally the First Class passengers. Now fully boarded, the ship pulls out as the company sings a prayerful farewell. One by one, the dreams and aspirations of key characters are presented: Barrett, the stoker who wanted to get away from the coal mines; Murdoch, the ship’s officer contemplating the responsibility of command; Kate McGowan and the Third Class passengers who yearn for a better life in America; Chief Steward Etches and the millionaires he serves who exult in the wonders of their world. Barrett finds his way to the Telegraph Room where he dictates a proposal of marriage to his sweetheart back home in a telegram transmitted by Harold Bride, a young telegraph operator smitten with the possibilities of the new radio technology. The next day, April 14, after Sunday morning church service, the First Class attends the shipboard band’s spirited out-of-doors dance-concert, an exclusive event crashed by Second Class passenger Alice Beane, a hardware store owner’s wife who wants more out of life. That evening, as Fleet the lookout scans the horizon and bandsman Hartley regales the First Class Smoking Room with a new song, the ship sails inexorably towards her collision, which ends Act One. Act Two opens as the suddenly awakened First and Second Class passengers are assembled in the Grand Salon for life-belt instruction by Chief Steward Etches, before being sent up to the Boat Deck to board the lifeboats. In the Telegraph Room, Captain Smith, Mr. Andrews and Mr. Ismay, the owner, argue over who is responsible for the disaster while Mr. Bride tirelessly sends out the S.O.S. Up on the Boat Deck, the male passengers are separated from their families, and all express hopes of being reunited as the final boat is lowered. Isidor Straus (the owner of Macy’s) and his wife Ida remain behind together, as she refuses to leave his side after 40 years of marriage and Mr. Etches utters a prayer. In the abandoned Smoking Room, Thomas Andrews desperately redesigns his ship to correct its fatal flaws until the futility of his actions leads him to predict, in horrifying detail, the end of TITANIC just as she begins her now-inevitable descent. In an Epilogue, the survivors picked up by the CARPATHIA numbly retell what had once been Mr. Andrews’ dream. The living are joined by their lost loved-ones in a tableau recapturing the optimistic spirit of the Ocean Dock on sailing day. Stage director Jacob Allen and music director Todd Florin lead this production. This production will be followed this season by The Gondoliers. Allen, originally from Oxford, Maine, holds degrees from Lawrence University and the Eastman School of Music. Todd Florin, originally from Oceanside, NY holds degrees from The University of Rochester and the Eastman School of Music. The cast is full of new and returning CLOC vocal company members. Talents to look forward to include Jake Bell as Jim Farrell (from Collierville, TN - University of Memphis ’16), Matthew Brennan as Bruce Ismay (Chicago, IL - Vanderbilt University ’14), Blake Gronlund as Harold Bride (Detroit, MI - Western Michigan University), Evan Woods Gunter as Capt. Edward J. Smith (Rainbow City, AL - Samford University ’17), Patrick Lynch as William Murdoch (Kansas City, MO - Northwestern University ’16), Jim Miller as Henry Etches (Fort Wayne, IN - Wright State University ’16), Willson Oppedahl as Wallace Hartley (Libertyville, IL - Lawrence University ’14), Timothy Powers as Herbert Pitman (Summerfield, NC – Ithaca College ’16), Christopher Sapp as Thomas Andrews (Resaca, GA - University of Georgia ’16), Steven Telsey as Frederick Barrett (New Hyde Park, NY - Elon University ’18), and Anna Tobin as Kate McGowan (St. Petersburg, FL - Elon University ’18). Titanic will run Tuesday, August 11th through Saturday, August 15th at 8 p.m., with a Thursday Matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $36 and are available by calling the CLOC Box Office at 508-548-0668 or by visiting the CLOC Box Office, 58 Highfield Drive, Falmouth (open Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., and 7:00 –9:00 p.m.). For more information, please visit www .CollegeLightOperaCompany .com.  Mrs. Dolly Levi (Helen Knudsen) gets a warm welcome back at the Harmonia Gardens Restaurant from the adoring Waitstaff.  Besac (Erik Dohner) and the Seamen with Marianne (Maggie Langhorne). The College Light Opera Company (CLOC) is proud to present The New Moon as its upcoming production.
The New Moon begins in New Orleans (a French Colony until 1803) at the Beaunoir home. There, Robert Mission, a nobleman in hiding due to a murder committed in France, pretends to be a bondman on Monsieur Beaunoir. Robert has fallen in love with Marianne, Beaunoir’s daughter, before the play begins. At the curtain, the Vicomte Ribaud arrives to find and arrest Robert. He tracks him first to the Beaunoir house, then to a café, where he finds the revolutionary Philippe with his peers, and finally to a masked ball where Robert is captured with the seeming help of Marianne. Marianne feigns love with Captain Duval so she can sail to France on the ship “The New Moon” with Robert, Ribaud and the comic pairs of Julie, Alexander, Besac, and Clotilde. In Act II, the ship is taken by Philippe and his men. Robert and Philippe set up a free colony on the Isle of Pines where, one year later, Julie and Alexander and Besac and Clotilde live together as loving couples. Marianne and Robert, although married by island law, do not live together, until Ribaud re-unites them in a ploy to hand the island over to a French ship in the harbor. This he does, but the King is dead, France has entered revolution, Ribaud is arrested and all others live happily ever after. Stage director Mark Pearson and music director David Weiller lead this production. This production will be followed this season by Hello, Dolly! in two weeks. Pearson, originally from Hull, Massachusetts, holds degrees from Boston College and Boston University. David Weiller, originally from Fullerton, California, holds degrees from Occidental College and the University of Illinois. The cast is full of new and returning CLOC vocal company members. Talents to look forward to include Erik Dohner as Besac (from Chicago, IL - DePaul University ’16), Maggie Langhorne as Mariane Beaunoir (Santa Barbara, CA – Oberlin Conservatory ’16), Jim Miller as Vicomte Ribaud (Fort Wayne, IN - Wright State University ’16), Abigail Rice as Julie (Canandaigua, NY – Gettysburg College ’16), Christopher Sapp as Robert (Resaca, GA – University of Georgia ’16), Steven Telsey as Alexander (New Hyde Park, NY – Elon University ’18), and Anna Tobin as Clotilde (St. Petersburg, FL - Elon University ’18). The New Moon will run Tuesday, July 28th through Saturday, August 1st at 8 p.m., with a Thursday Matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $36 and are available by calling the CLOC Box Office at 508-548-0668 or by visiting the CLOC Box Office, 58 Highfield Drive, Falmouth (open Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., and 7:00 –9:00 p.m.). For more information, please visit www .CollegeLightOperaCompany .com. The College Light Opera Company is an independent nonprofit educational theatre produced by Robert A. and Ursula R. Haslun now in its 47th season in Falmouth. The Company seeks to provide high-quality musicals and operettas to summer audiences on Cape Cod, while at the same time giving young talent from across the country a chance to begin a career in music theatre. The group consists of 32 talented singers, a fine 18-piece orchestra, and 12 dedicated technicians. The Company is selected annually from applicants in colleges and universities all across the country. The members of the Company are dedicated to refining their craft under the guidance of a trained professional staff.  The College Light Opera Company (CLOC) is proud to present The Boys from Syracuse as its upcoming production.
Identical twins, Antipholus of Ephesus and Antipholus of Syracuse, were separated from each other in a shipwreck as young children. Their servants, both named Dromio, are also long-separated identical twins. When the pair from Syracuse come to Ephesus, a comedy of errors and mistaken identities ensues when the wives of the Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husbands. Adriana's sister Luciana and the Syracuse Antipholus fall in love, but all gets resolved in this musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Comedy of Errors. Stage director Mark A. Pearson and music director Beth Burrier lead this production. This production will be followed this season by Oklahoma! in two weeks. Pearson, originally from Hull, MA, received his degrees from Boston College and Boston University and current resides in Germany. Burrier, from State College, PA, holds degrees from Otterbein University and Ithaca College. The cast is full of new and returning CLOC vocal company members. Talents to look forward to include Jake Bell as Dromio of Ephesus (from Collierville, TN - University of Memphis ’16), Matthew Brennan as Antipholus of Ephesus (Chicago, IL - Vanderbilt University ’14), Evan Woods Gunter as Antipholus of Syracuse (Rainbow City, AL – Stamford University ’17), Helen Knudsen as Courtesan (Elmhurst, IL - Chicago College of Performing Arts ’17), Maggie Langhorne as Adriana (Santa Barbara, CA – Oberlin Conservatory ’16), Jim Miller as Dromio of Syracuse (Fort Wayne, IN - Wright State University ’16), Katharine Nunn as Luce (Haslett, MI - Michigan State University ’16), Abigail Rice as Luciana (Canandaigua, NY - Gettysburg College ’16), Christopher Sapp as Sergeant (Resaca, GA - University of Georgia ’16). The Boys From Syracuse will run Tuesday, July 14th through Saturday, July 18th at 8 p.m., with a Thursday Matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $35 plus a $1 facility fee, and are available by calling the CLOC Box Office at 508-548-0668 or by visiting the CLOC Box Office, 58 Highfield Drive, Falmouth (open Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., and 7:00 –9:00 p.m.). For more information, please visit www .CollegeLightOperaCompany .com.  The College Light Opera Company (CLOC) is proud to present West Side Story as the second production of its 2015 season.
 Yum-Yum (Isabella Dawis), Ko-Ko (Jim Miller) and Nanki-Poo (Marcus Lee) discuss their problematic marriage situation. The College Light Opera Company (CLOC) is proud to present Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Mikado to kick off its 47th season.
Nanki-Poo—the son of the Mikado—has fled the imperial court in order to escape the amorous clutches of the overbearing Katisha. Disguised as a wandering minstrel, he arrives in Titipu in search of his true love, Yum-Yum, only to find her engaged to Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor recently raised to the exalted rank of Lord High Executioner. A letter arrives from the Mikado threatening to reduce Titipu to the rank of a village unless someone is executed at once. Nanki-Poo agrees to be the victim in exchange for one month of married happiness with Yum-Yum. Marriage preparations are halted by the unexpected arrival if Katisha, who claims Nanki-Poo as her own. Eager to comply with the imperial will, Ko-Ko supplies the Mikado with a false certificate of Nanki-Poo’s execution, unexpectedly incurring the wrath of both the Mikado and Katisha. To save everyone’s neck, the only solution is for Ko-Ko to woo and wed Katisha. The Mikado is appeased by the reappearance of Nanki-Poo with his new bride Yum-Yum, and the curtain falls on yet another topsy-turvy plot filled with pithy lyrics and glorious music. Stage director Mark A. Pearson and Music Director Jonathan Edward Brennand lead this production. This is their 13th production together, and will be followed this season by West Side Story in two weeks. Pearson, originally from Hull, MA, received his degrees from Boston College and Boston University and current resides in Germany. Brennand, originally from Middlesex, England, studied at Drew University and UMass: Amherst. The company is full of new CLOC members. Talents to look forward to are Matthew Brennan as Pooh-Bah (from Chicago, IL - Vanderbilt University ’14), Isabella Dawis as Yum-Yum (Minneapolis, MN – University of Minnesota ’13), Marcus Lee as Nanki-Poo (Minneapolis, MN - Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University ’18), Phillip Lopez as The Mikado (Avon, IL - Millikin University ’16), Patrick Lynch as Pish-Tush (Kansas City, MO - Northwestern University ’16), Jim Miller as Ko-Ko (Fort Wayne, Indiana - Wright State University ’16), Katharine Nunn as Katisha (Haslett, MI - Michigan State University ’16), Abigail Rice as Pitti-Sing (Canandaigua, NY - Gettysburg College ’16), and Alyson Snyder as Peep-Bo (St. Joseph, MI - Wright State University ’16). The Mikado will be running from Tuesday, June 30th through Saturday, July 4th at 8 p.m., with a Thursday Matinee at 2 p.m. Tickets are $35 and are available by calling the CLOC Box Office at 508-548-0668 or by visiting the CLOC Box Office, 58 Highfield Drive, Falmouth (open Monday-Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., 2:00 – 5:00 p.m., and 7:00 –9:00 p.m.). For more information, please visit www .CollegeLightOperaCompany .com.  The College Light Opera Company is proud to present Into the Woods as the ninth and final show of its 46th season. This is CLOC’s second production of Into the Woods, which was done in the 2004 season.
Into the Woods is the story of a baker and his wife’s journey into the woods in search of a cow, a red cape, a strand of yellow hair and a golden slipper. These ingredients are necessary to lift a curse that has left them childless, put upon them by a witch. Along the way they encounter princes, wolves, giants and a host of familiar fairy tale characters. Through romance, magic, passion, tragedy and forgiveness, they soon discover that wishes can come true, but a happy ending is never as easy as it seems. This production is led by stage director Corin Hollifield and music director Dr. Todd Florin. Hollifield, from Calgary, Alberta, received his degrees from the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. He currently resides in New York, NY. This is his 15th summer with CLOC and he last directed She Loves Me! in the 2013 season. He also directed CLOC’s last production of Into the Woods in 2004. Florin, from Cincinnati, OH, received his degrees from University of Rochester, University of Rochester School of Medicine and the University of Pennsylvania. Florin began at CLOC as an associate conductor in the 1999 season and has served as principal conductor thereafter. Todd met his wife Kemper at CLOC when she was a member of the 2003 Vocal Company. Last summer he music directed The Most Happy Fella. The cast will feature Lindsay Cabaniss as The Witch (Tolland, CT – Hartt School of Music ’15), Joshua Gronlund as Rapunzel’s Prince (Detroit, MI – Michigan State University ’15), Will Hawkins as The Narrator (Alexandria, VA – UNC Chapel Hill ’14), Jens Jacobson as The Wolf (Platteville, WI – Belmont University ’14), Maggie Langhorne as Little Red Riding Hood (Santa Barbara, CA – Oberlin Conservatory of Music ’16) Nick Martiniano as Baker (Troy, NY – Russell Sage College ’15), Mike McCann as Cinderella’s Prince (Winslow, ME – Middlebury College ’15), and Caitlin Ruddy as Baker’s Wife (Land O’ Lakes, FL – Eastman School of Music MM ’15),  The College Light Opera Company is proud to present H.M.S. Pinafore as the eighth show of its 46th season. This is CLOC’s fifteenth production of H.M.S. Pinafore, which premiered in the very first CLOC season in 1969 and was last done in 2009.
H.M.S. Pinafore is the story of the sailors of the H.M.S. Pinafore who are preparing the ship for inspection by Sir Joseph Porter, First Lord of the Admiralty. The atmosphere is marred only by the peddler Little Buttercup’s hints of a dark secret she is hiding, and by the lovelorn plaints of Ralph, a sailor, and Josephine, the Captain’s daughter. Class pride keeps Josephine from sharing her feelings with Ralph, while Captain Corcoran has been arranging a marriage between her and Sir Joseph, who is in a social class even above the Corcorans. Sir Joseph appears, attended by a train of female relatives, and Josephine finds him insufferable. When Ralph pleads his suit she rejects him, but when he threatens suicide she agrees to elope. They rejoice as Dick Deadeye croaks a warning that their hopes will be frustrated. Buttercup attempts to comfort the Captain, whom she loves, in his despair at the coldness of his daughter towards Sir Joseph. Dick Deadeye informs Captain Corcoran of the planned elopement. The Captain, intercepting the lovers, is so incensed that he cries “Damme!” Sir Joseph, horrified at the swearing, send the Captain off in disgrace. When he learns of the elopement, Sir Joseph orders Ralph put in irons. Buttercup now reveals her long- withheld secret, which results in a sudden reversal in social status, thus allowing all of the lovers to be happily united. This production is led by stage director David Ward and music director Mary Marcell. This is Ward’s first CLOC production as a stage director. Marcell also music directed How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying this season. Ward, a resident of Tucson, AZ, received his degrees from the University of Houston. He was a member of the CLOC Vocal Company from 1982-83. He is currently the Director of the University of Arizona Opera Theater, where he recently directed Die Fledermaus and The Magic Flute. He has also directed for the Opera in the Ozarks, the Moores School of Music, and Houston’s Opera in the Heights. Marcell, from New York, NY, received her degrees from Smith College and the Hartt School of Music. She returns to CLOC for her 22nd season and has led over 30 CLOC productions as a Principal Conductor. Mary leads groups ranging from a 12-voice vocal jazz ensemble to the 180 performers of her annual Festival Chorus Concert. Mary chairs the music department at Rye Country Day School, where she teaches the Upper School Choruses, AP Music Theory, and music directs the Student/Faculty musical. The cast is full of new CLOC vocal company members. Talents to look forward to are Joshua Gronlund as Ralph (Detroit, MI – Michigan State University ’15), Will Hawkins as Sir Joseph, (Alexandria, VA – UNC Chapel Hill ’14), Mike McCann as Captain Corcoran (Winslow, ME – Middlebury College ’15) and Erin Reppenhagen as Little Buttercup (Tully, NY – SUNY Potsdam – The Crane School of Music ’14). Returners to look for include Jens Jacobson as Dick Deadeye (Platteville, WI – Belmont University ’14) and Maggie Langhorne as Josephine (Santa Barbara, CA – Oberlin Conservatory of Music ’16). |
AuthorJuliana MacLachlan is a rising junior at the University of Connecticut, where she studies Vocal Performance and Communications. Archives
August 2015
Categories |
RSS Feed
