'The Grand Duke' to appear
The Mount Oread Gilbert and Sullivan Company is expecting an especially busy spring semester this year in preparation for the International Conference on Gilbert and Sullivan, to be held at KU May 7-9.
The conference, sponsored by the International Theatre Studies Center, will be the first of its kind anywhere.
As part of the conference program, John Bush Jones, assistant professor of English, and Sandra
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Carson Jones, the directors of the company, have announced the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, "The Grand Duke," will be presented instead of the previously announced "Ruddigore."
Jones said the play was the most ambitious undertaking the company has made. The cast calls for eight male leads, nine female leads, and a chorus of 20. He said the company's musical director, Lynn Schormick, Yates Center sophomore, would require a larger orchestra than in the past productions—"The Mikado" and "Iolanthe."
Jones said "The Grand Duke" was chosen because it was the last and least-known of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. He said of the 200 scholars and experts attending the conference from the United States, Europe and Canada, many have never seen the play performed.
"The Grand Duke," about a 17th century acting troupe which overthrows a German government, was not successful when first produced in 1896.
"The play was too modern," Jones explains. "The humor was not characteristic of Gilbert and Sullivan—it's not cute but cynical. The music is a deliberate satire of contemporary operatic composers. The characters are moral idiots and rather unpleasant—in fact, the show has a lot of black humor."
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