Trial By Jury

Season: Autumn 1994
  (Performed with The Zoo)

Dramatis Personæ:

Usher:

Scott Baros

The Defendant (Edwin):

Mark King

The Learned Judge:

James Caffrey

Counsel for the Plaintiff:

Joseph T. Washington

The Plaintiff (Angelina):

Lynette Blake

Foreman of the Jury:

Bob Weeks

The Jury:

Terry Benedict, Tracy Burdick, Richard Burns, Peter Scott Dunbar, Mike Ellsworth, Les Finley, Stephen M. Gullo, Bill Hammond, Jimmie B Lobaugh, James Loehr, John McCrank, Scot Zaffora-Reeder, David Schafer

Bridesmaids:

Julia Ferreira Benedict, Christine M. Dettman, Amanda Lobaugh, Jean Ryon

Female Chorus:

Barbara A. Dick, Pamela Good, Isabel T. Henry, Lindsay Holmes, Angela Maloney, Linda Minier, Patricia A. Montrois, Anne Virgil

Production Staff:

Director:

Molly Moore

Assistant Director:

Joseph T. Washington

Musical Director & accompanist:

Leanne DeVane

Producer:

Bob Weeks

Costumes:

Maryanne Lettis

Lighting Design:

Michele Denber

Props:

Bodie McCaffrey

Stage Manager:

Rob Ciaccia

House Manager:

Jordu Kelly

Program Illustration:

Sarah Freeman

Notes

Gilbert and Sullivan's first collaboration, Thespis, ran for barely a month in 1872 and then vanished. The two parted company for a time, teaming up again three years later when a one-act operetta was needed to round out a program featuring Offenbach's La Perichole. This musical dessert was Trial By Jury, and it soon proved more popular than the main course. Sullivan and Rowe's The Zoo, written to follow a play by Gilbert, opened at another theatre three months later and was clearly an attempt to capitalize on the success of Trial. It never achieved the same popularity and all but disappeared until 1966, when the musical score surfaced at an auction at Southby's. In both operas, Sullivan's spirited music makes deft allusions to the conventions — and pretensions — of Grand Opera. And, as there is no spoken dialogue in either show, it's an evening of wall-to-wall Sullivan.

Photos by Katherine M. O'Donnell

 

 

 

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Last updated: 02/19/10