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Directed byCHRIS ALEXANDER and DAN EARL

Sound Design CRAIG A. MILLER

Costume CoordinatorGAIL REINE

SlideshowSTEVEN PIECHOCKI

Lighting DesignSTEVEN PIECHOCKI

Properties Master ROSHELL PULK

Production Stage ManagerINEZ VIERA

The taking of photographs and the recording of this performance are strictly prohibited.

A Gilbert and Sullivan Musical Revue!Conceived and written by Ken Malucelli

A FUN-raiser event benefitting the Artistic and Educational Programs at 6th Street Playhouse

6th Street PlayhouseCRAIG A. MILLER

Executive Artistic DirectorJARED SAKREN

Executive Director

present

SAVOY EXPRESS

We Would Like To Thank Our Community Partners:County of Sonoma - Board of Supervisors

The William and Flora Hewlett FoundationThe Clay Foundation West, County of Sonoma,

The North Bay Bohemian, Sutter Health, Creative Sonoma, The Sonoma County Community Foundation, Santa Rosa Rotary West

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CASTJacob Bronson Bill Morgan

Dan Earl Alyssa Powers

Alan Kafton Sandy Riccardi

Mark Kratz Beth Rudiger

Crystal McDougall

ARTISTIC STAFFCo-Music Director & Stage Director .............................. Dan EarlCo-Music Director & Accompanist .....................Chris AlexanderLighting Designer ...............................................Steven PiechockiSound Designer .......................................................Craig A. MillerCostume Coordinator ....................................................Gail ReineProperties Master ...................................................... Roshell PulkProduction Stage Manager ........................................... Inez VieraProducer .......................................................................Pam ZainerSound Operator ..........................................Marc Gonzales-MartinTechnical Director ..............................................Steven PiechockiGraphic Designer.....................................................Ty Donaldson Photographer ......................................................... Eric Chazankin

EVENT COMMITTEEChris Alexander Steven PiechockiDan Earl Roshell PulkCraig Miller Jared SakrenBill Morgan Kathleen YorkKim Norts Pam Zainer

With special thanks to Ken Malucelli2

SAVOY EXPRESS


A GILBERT & SULLIVAN REVUE!ACT ONE

Pirates of Penzance (The Slave of Duty)Oh, Better Far to Live and Die ...................................Bill & Men’s ChorusOh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast. .............Jacob & Women’s ChorusPoor Wandering One ......................................Alyssa & Women’s ChorusModel of a Modern Major General .....................................Alan & ChorusAll is Prepared/Stay, Frederic, Stay/Ah, Leave Me Not ... Alyssa & Jacob

Iolanthe (The Peer and the Peri)Tripping Hither ......................................Crystal, Beth & Women’s ChorusLove Unrequited. ...............................................................................AlanIf You Go In (He Who Shies at Such a Prize) .................Alan, Bill & Mark

Ruddigore (The Witch’s Curse)If Somebody There Chanced to Be ...................................................BethIn Sailing O’er Life’s Ocean Wide. ..................................Beth, Mark, DanCheerily Carols the Lark .................................................................SandyWhen the Night Wind Howls ......................................Bill & Men’s Chorus

The Gondoliers (The King of Barataria)Then One of Us Will be a Queen.............. Alyssa, Crystal, Jacob & MarkCome Let’s Away - Our Crown Island Awaits Me/Now, Marco Dear......... ................................................................. Alyssa, Crystal, Jacob & MarkTake a Pair of Sparkling Eyes...........................................................MarkDance a Cachucha ...................................................................Ensemble

There will be one 15 minute intermission


A GILBERT & SULLIVAN REVUE!ACT TWO

HMS Pinafore (The Lass that Loved a Sailor)

We Sail the Ocean Blue ...........................................................Ensemble

I’m Called Little Buttercup...............................................................Sandy

I am the Captain of the Pinafore ................................Bill & Men’s Chorus

Refrain, Audacious Tar ......................................................... Beth & Mark

The Hours Creep on Apace ...............................................................Beth

Never Mind the Why and Wherefore .............................. Bill, Alan & Beth

The Mikado (The Town of Titipu)

Three Little Maids from School ...........................Alyssa, Crystal & Sandy

As Some Day it May Happen. ...........................................Alan & Chorus

Were You Not to Ko-Ko Plighted ......................................Jacob & AlyssaThe Sun, Whose Rays are all Ablaze. ........................................... AlyssaA More Humane Mikado ...................................................... Bill & ChorusAlone, and Yet Alive ........................................................................SandyOn a Tree by a River (Willow, Tit-Willow) ..........................................AlanThere is Beauty in the Bellow of the Blast .......................... Alan & SandyThe Threatened Cloud has Passed Away ................................Ensemble


BIOGRAPHIESJACOB BRONSON Jacob is an award-winning actor and singer, recently winning the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Principal Actor in a Musical for his role as

Fabrizo in the Spreckels Theatre Company production of The Light in the Piazza. He has an extensive theatrical background, and has performed in musical theatre and opera throughout California. Previous roles include Princeton in Avenue Q, The Caliph in Kismet, Jinx in Forever Plaid, and Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd. Jacob can be seen next as Prince Eric in the Spreckels Theatre Company Production of The Little Mermaid.

ALAN KAFTONAlan is thrilled to be returning to the 6th Street stage after last performing here several years ago as the Preacher in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Most recently,

Alan was part of the Kismet ensemble at Spreckels. Last summer, Alan reprised the role of the innkeeper, Thenardier, in the North Bay Stage concert production of Les Miserables at Burbank Auditorium, having previously performed the part with the Raven Players. A long-time Gilbert & Sullivan fan, Alan’s favorite G&S roles have included The Major General (Pirates of Penzance), Koko (Mikado), & Dick Dead Eye (H.M.S. Pinafore). Alan would like to dedicate his performance to Thelma Dare Ahner, who introduced the delights of G&S to him and to so many of her other students

MARK KRATZMark Kratz has recently been featured in leading roles with Cinnabar Theater, Pocket Opera, Lamplighters Musical T h e a t r e , J u n e a u Lyric Opera and The

International Opera Institute. In 2012, he was the tenor soloist for the National Messiah with the National Opera Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Kratz is a graduate of the Tacoma Opera and Tri-Cities Opera young artist program. He holds a Master’s Degree in Opera from SUNY Binghamton and a Bachelor’s Degree in Performance from the Eastman School of Music. Kratz is currently an Adjunct Professor of Voice at the Santa Rosa Junior College.

CRYSTAL McDOUGALLCrystal was born and raised in Sonoma County and has been performing in choirs locally since she was a child. She continued singing throughout her time at Santa Rosa High

School and after graduation studied voice with Thelma Dare Ahner. She played Meg in Sonoma States production of Damn Yankees! She then enrolled in SRJC’s Applied Vocal Program where she sang in both Choirs and had the honor of singing the National Anthem at graduation. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her children, family and friends.


BIOGRAPHIESBILL MORGANBill Morgan is an engineer by day and sings and bicycles when possible in the off hours. He has been a member of the Sonoma County Chamber Singers and Merrie Olde Christmas

Carolers for over 10 years and performed with the Sebastopol Savoyards for many years under the direction of Anne Poole McNab. He has performed in musical theatre with Santa Rosa Players and 6th Street Playhouse with favorite roles Pooh Bah in The Mikado and a one of the Buffalo Bills in The Music Man. Bill studies voice with noted vocal teacher Thelma Dare Ahner.

ALYSSA POWERSA Santa Rosa native, and lifetime singer, Alyssa’s first community theatre performance was in the chorus of The Mikado with Santa Rosa Players, and she has since performed

in 8 more Gilbert & Sullivan productions. Alyssa currently lives in Salt Lake City, where she is a member of the Utah Opera Chorus, having performed in 12 productions. Favorite lifetime roles include “Mabel” in Pirates of Penzance, “Patience” in Patience and “Fiona” in Brigadoon. She is honored to be a former student of Dan Earl and Thelma Dare Ahner. Alyssa is the proud mother of 3 children and volunteers as Choir Director at her children’s school. Thanks to Mom, Dad, Dan, Chris and Scott!

SANDY RICCARDISandy’s first acting job was convincing the NYC restaurant manager that she had waitressing experience. It worked. She spent 11 years on the NYC musical theatre

circuit, performing with The New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Playwright Preview Productions, Westchester Broadway Theater and made many cabaret appearances at Don’t Tell Mama and The Duplex. She has music-directed dozens of shows in the North Bay area since moving west, and was last seen as Mrs. Banks in Mary Poppins at Spreckels. She is the less-talented half of the original musical-comedy cabaret team of Sandy and Richard Riccardi, which has over 5 million hits on YouTube and tours the country annually. She also teaches voice and piano from their home in Petaluma.

BETH RUDIGERThe music of Gilbert and Sullivan has been a favorite of Beth’s since her youth. She has performed the roles of the Plaintiff in Trial by Jury, Gianetta in The Gondoliers, and has been

a member of the Sebastopol Savoyards under the direction of Anne Poole MacNab for several years. Beth is happy to perform again at the 6th Street Playhouse where she was honored to play Agnes Gooch in Mame in 2005, the first show produced in the theatre.


BIOGRAPHIESProduction Staff

CHRIS ALEXANDER (Co-Music Director and Accompanist) Since moving to Santa Rosa in 1999, Chris Alexander has played for North Bay groups such as the Santa Rosa

Players, Cinnabar Opera Theater, and Sonoma State University Bach Choir. Prior to moving north, Mr. Alexander played for the San Jose State Chorale (including a tour to Russia in 2000), TheatreWorks of Palo Alto (including World and West Coast musical premieres), the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of San Jose, the Redwood (City) Symphony, and accompanied the Stanford Savoyards for 11 years. Mr. Alexander thanks his wife, Dana (Montgomery High School’s Choral Director), and daughter, Ella, for being wonderful!

DAN EARL (Co-Music Director and Stage Director) R. Daniel (Dan) Earl is a graduate of Chapman College (now a University) where he majored in choral music and drama.

He taught music & drama in the Tustin City Schools, at Hewes Intermediate, for eleven years. While at Hewes he met his wife to be Connie. In 1977 he was hired to teach choral music at Santa Rosa High School, where he taught for the next twenty-eight years until his retirement in 2005. Dan and Connie live in Santa Rosa in a house that they built. They share their home with their dogs, cats and horses.

INEZ VIERA (Stage Manager) Inez Viera has a BA in Theatre from San Francisco State University and is new to the Sonoma County area. She has worked on many productions on and off

stage. But, this is her first production at 6th Street Playhouse and she is very excited about working with the 6th Street team. Hopefully, there are many more to come.

UPCOMING SHOWSMy Fair LadyMay 6-June 5 With “Wouldn’t It Be Loverly?”, “I Could Have Danced All Night”, “On the Street Where You Live”, and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face”, it’s no wonder everyone — not just Henry Higgins — falls in love with Eliza Doolittle.

New Voices on the VineMay 13-May 22A celebration of new works, with an exciting line-up of deserving, fully produced new short plays; three brand new full-length staged read-ings; and workshops and keynote playwright speakers!

Forever PlaidJune 24-July 17Once upon a time, there were four guys (Sparky, Smudge, Jinx and Frankie) who shared a love for great music, and they became “Forever Plaid”. Performing amazing four-part harmonies of beloved, nostalgic pop hits of the 1950’s, Forever Plaid is the perfect closer to our 10th Anniversary Season!


GILBERT AND SULLIVAN

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Gilbert & Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911) and the composer Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900) and to the works they jointly created. The two men collaborated on fourteen comic operas between 1871 and 1896, of which H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known.

Gilbert, who wrote the words, created fanciful “topsy-turvy” worlds for these operas where each absurdity is taken to its logical conclusion—fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy, and pirates turn out to be noblemen who have gone wrong. Sullivan, six years Gilbert’s junior, composed the music, contributing memorable melodies that could convey both humour and pathos.

Their operas have enjoyed broad and enduring international success and are still performed frequently throughout the English-speaking world. Gilbert & Sullivan introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century. The operas have also influenced political discourse, literature, film and television and have been widely parodied and pastiched by humourists. Producer Richard D’Oyly Carte brought Gilbert & Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration. He built the Savoy Theatre in 1881 to present their joint works (which came to be known as the Savoy Operas) and founded the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company, which performed and promoted Gilbert and Sullivan’s works for over a century.

Special thanks to:Kathy Horan, Ken Malucelli, Tim Zainer,

John Ash & Co., Franchetti’s Woodfire Kitchen, Rosso’s Pizzeria, Korbel Champagne Cellars, Main Stage West, Spreckels Performing Arts

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