The Grand Duke RESCHEDULED to 2023
The Sudbury Savoyards’ production of the Grand Duke has been rescheduled to our our usual late-February/early-March time slot in 2023.
We hope that as many of the cast, crew, orchestra, and production staff as possible will be able to join us for the re-scheduled dates.
Production Information & Chorus Registration
Vaccination status to participate:
As many theater groups are doing, we are requiring all cast and crew to be fully vaccinated and boosted, and we will be asking for proof of vaccination from everyone. All other health and safety protocols will be re-assessed as needed when the production gets closer.
Vocal Score:
We’ll be using Steve Malionek’s 2006 adaptation of the Grand Duke score.
T-shirts, sweatshirts, and mugs!
Grand Duke merchandise is still available via CafePress.
From our 2006 production of The Grand Duke
Gilbert & Sullivan’s The Grand Duke
(a plot summary care of Wikipedia):
In The Grand Duke, Gilbert and Sullivan come full circle, back to the theme of their first collaboration, Thespis: a troupe of actors taking political power. The plot hinges on the misinterpretation of a 100-year-old law regarding statutory duels (decided by drawing cards). The baffled leading man of the troupe, Ludwig, spearheads the rebellion against the hypochondriac, miserly Grand Duke and becomes engaged to four different women before the plot is resolved.
The frugality and phoniness of the wealthy classes and the nobility is lampooned and, as in Princess Ida, The Mikado, The Gondoliers, and Utopia, Limited, the foreign setting emboldens Gilbert to use some particularly pointed satire.