MUGSS 1999

The Sorcerer

Cast

Committee

Production

Director Jo Taylor
Musical Director Emma Farrell
Production Manager Steve Smith
Designer Jo Taylor
Lighting Designer Dave Ball
FX Designer Chris Lamb
Choreographer Toy Jolora
Rehearsal Accompianist Mike Harris
Set Designer Eliot Walker
Technical Facilitator Mark Boardman
Properties Sarah Greenhalgh, Catherine Reid, Emma Hateley
Stage Manager Eliot Walker
Deputy Stage Manager Mike Thomas
Assistant Stage Managers Dave Tildesley, Ben Seaby
Set Manager Philip Williams
Lighting Dave Ball, Chris Lamb
Make-Up Elizabeth Castro
Rehearsal Catering Andrew Edmonstone, Steve Smith
Ticket Sales Manager Alasdair King
Photography Gareth Knight
Front of House Manager Edward Pickering
Deputy Front of House Managers Anna Dilley, Richard Bolton
Front of House Judith Lock, Dewi Johns, Emma Flatters, Rachel Whittaker, Catherine Clapp, Sarah Allwood, Elaine Drayton, Ali Balkwill, Marianne Fleming
Costume Manager Tracey Low
Programme Editor Pete England
Programme Design MMG Design (0161 248 6616)
Poster Advertising Bethany Burrow
Poster Design Susanna Wilding, Chris Lamb
Websites Mark Boardman, Penny Richards, Alasdair King
Orchestra Manager Helen Warman
Stage Crew and Set Team Stuart Turton, Emma Flatters, Chris Jones, Chris Hopkins, Alasdair Ferro, Eliot Walker, Rob Allen, Ben Seaby, Nick 'Shifty' Welburn, Richard Bolton, Dave Tildesley, Colin Cort, Andy Briggs, Geraldine Foley, Fran Anderson, Carol O'Dea, Nigel Machin, Roger Quinn, Sarah Thistlethwaite, Steve Smith, Andrew Edmonstone, Chris Lamb, Grahame Jebb
Costume Team Elisabeth Castro, Anna Dilley, Susanna Wilding, Marianne Fleming, Matt's Mum, Catherine Clapp, Eliot Walker, Emma Flatters, Aimee Ashbaugh, Fran Anderson, Isabella Barton, Julia Fleming, Kim Low, Helen Taylor, Rachel Whittaker, Jo Taylor, Chris Lamb (special thanks to Dewi's floor and Tracey's hallway, and to the team chauffeurs, Tim, Nick, Jackie, David, Matt et al)

Notes

From the Director's Notes
"I have decided not to present the first night version of the show, but are instead sticking with the changes that Gilbert himself made during the run. Thus 'Happy Are We In Our Loving Frivolity' has been replaced with both ''Tis Twelve I Think' and the extremely comic 'Why, Where Be Oi?'. I think, as Gilbert did, that this makes for a more interesting and dramatic show".

The production was performed with a woman in the title role: Helen Fieldsend sang 'My Name Is Jane Wellington Wells' and the libretto was otherwise unaltered. Lady Sangazure (Isabella Barton) did indeed pursue the Sorceress around the stage under the influence of the love-philtre.

Music

Recordings provided courtesy of the marvellous Mike Harris.

• 01 Overture
• 02 Ring forth ye bells
• 02 When he is here
• 03 Time was, when love and I
• 04 Recitative
• 05 With heart and with voice
• 06 Happy young heart
• 07 Recitative
• 08 With heart and with voice
• 09 Welcome joy
• 10 All is prepared
• 11 With heart and with voice (reprise)
• 12 Love feeds on many kinds of food
• 13 My Name is John Wellington Wells
• 14 Incantation
• 14B Now to the banquet we press
• 15 'Tis twelve, I think
• 16 Dear friends, take pity on my lot
• 17 It is not love
• 18 I rejoice that it's decided
• 19 I have wrought much evil with my spells
• 20 Alexis! Doubt me not
• 21-22 Oh my voice is sad and low
• 23 Prepare for sad surprises
• 24 Or he or I must die

Parts of the recording provided kindly by Chris Rufty Hopkins.

Pictures