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“Skylight was born and raised on G & S, having produced 55 of their works over our sixty years. “It is absolutely spot-on that the next show in our landmark, 60th anniversary season is by Gilbert and Sullivan,” said Skylight Music Theatre Artistic Director Michael Unger. Ruddigore was last produced at Skylight in 1978. They have produced a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta regularly over the last 60 years. Other Ruddigore songs include “When the Night Wind Howls” and “Cheerily Carols the Lark.” Ruddigore is the tenth of the 14 operettas written together by Gilbert and Sullivan.Ĭelebrating its 60th year this season, Skylight’s first show in 1959 was a musical revue titled An Evening with Gilbert & Sullivan, based on the life and work of the team.

Patter songs in Ruddigore include “My Eyes are Fully Open” - one of the most challenging songs in the Savoy repertoire, and a piece that’s impossible not to hum on the way out of the theater. Ponasik added that many audiences will have heard it before - it was used as “The Speed Test” in Thoroughly Modern Millie. Gilbert & Sullivan are well known for these songs with rapid-fire lyrics such as “I am the very model of a modern Major-General” from The Pirates of Penzance. Ruddigore has not one, but three “patter” songs.

Much of the Ruddigore cast and creative team were also a part of MOT’s irresistible production of The Mikado (20). The cast includes many Skylight and MOT favorites, including Doug Clemons as Robin Oakapple/Ruthven Murgatroyd Karen Estrada as Old Adam Goodheart Susan Robinson as Rose Maybud and Diane Lane as Mad Margaret. James Zager, who choreographed Skylight’s productions of Oklahoma! (2019), The Tales of Hoffmann (2018), and La Cenerentola (2014), returns to choreograph Ruddigore. Tim Rebers, last seen onstage at Skylight in Kiss Me, Kate and Carmina Burana, will music direct. Co-director O’Donnell previously joined forces with Milwaukee Opera Theatre (MOT) on The Mikado and Candide. Ponasik recently directed Skylight’s acclaimed productions of Oklahoma! (2019) and Carmina Burana (2019). Ruddigore will use “the melodrama of silent film to convey Gilbert’s topsy-turvy point of view in which society’s arbitrary absolutes are turned upside down: the hero becomes evil, the villain becomes good, and ghosts discover they may never have died in the first place,” said Ponasik. “The singers will be doing most of the musical heavy lifting, but they’ll be joined by a few misfit instruments including accordion, celeste, viola, and guitar. This allows us to create a constantly shifting aural texture, and an extremely nimble production.” The storytellers include a quartet who also act as our vocal ‘orchestra,’” she said. Ponasik described the production as “a (mostly) a cappella adaptation. Jill Anna Ponasik and Catie O’Donnell will co-direct. Broadway, in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward.Ī satire of the Victorian melodrama genre, the world of Ruddigore is rife with ghosts, witches, curses, and (of course) mistaken identity. In true “topsy-turvy” Gilbert & Sullivan fashion, comic misunderstandings lead to a jungle of confusion and delusion – and a healthy dose of Gilbert’s ingenious wordplay. Featuring one of Sullivan’s finest scores, Skylight’s production of Ruddigore promises to be an original take on an under-performed gem from the G&S canon. Ruddigore will be performed in a special, limited run in the Studio Theatre at the Broadway Theatre Center, 158 N. Gilbert (book and lyrics) and Arthur Sullivan (music) with an imaginatively reinvigorated production of this classic gothic operetta. Skylight celebrates its long history of producing the works of W.S. (December 4, 2019) - Skylight Music Theatre today announced the cast and creative team for Ruddigore, or The Witch’s Curse, presented January 3-19, 2020 in collaboration with Milwaukee Opera Theatre.