Patience
Or, Bunthorne’s Bride

2015

October 3, 2:30 & 7:30
St John’s Lutheran Church, Stamford
Stage Director: Marian Shulman
Music Director: James Cooper
Piano: Justine McCurdy
Overture: Justine McCurdy and Bob Scrofani

Cast

ColonelĀ  Calverly…………………Greg Suss
Major Murgatroyd……………….Rob Strom
Lt Duke of Dunstable……………John Matilaine
Reginald Bunthorne……………..Frank Sisson
Archibald Grosvenor…………….David Richy
Solicitor……………………………….Bill Abbott
Lady Angela…………………………Brett Kroeger
Lady Saphir………………………….Maria Jacobi
Lady Ella……………………………….Julia Falkenburg
Lady Jane……………………………..Wendy Falconer
Patience………………………………..Miran Robarts

 

Ensemble

Barbara BIggs, Joyce Day, Mary DiROberts. Keiko Hayashida, Rosa Parrotta, Ruth-Anne Ring, Peggy Marchi, Kirsten Scott, Marian Shulman, Joan Stietzel, Tammy Strom, Lisa Waterworth, Irene Wielawski, Bill Abbott, Tyler Goff, John Hoover, Bob Scrofani, Guy Stretton.

Production Notes

Patience was performed as a Fall Fund Raiser with a low budget, and was more or less self-costumed. Since we chose to set Patience in the 1960s with the women’s chorus as hippies, this was actually quite lovely.

Bunthorne was a beatnik and Grosvenor a hippie.

We chose to make Patience a clerk at a Dairy Queen, which explains her costume. No words or lyrics were changed. Lady Jane plays a basson instead of a cello.

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