Ruddigore 2004
July 15, 16, 2004
Warren Loud, who was at the time, the Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company’s senior member, shared with his fellow performers that this concert presentation of Ruddigore was the fiftieth anniversary of his first Gilbert and Sullivan performance at the Lake Harriet Bandshell. That performance took place in 1954 with another Gilbert and Sullivan group, twenty-five years before the Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company was founded.
The cast for this concert production of Ruddigore included:
| Robin Oakapple |
Don Barbee |
| Richard Dauntless |
James Ahrens |
| Old Adam |
Jeremy Bierlein |
| Sir Despard Murgatroyd | Waldyn Benbenek |
| Sir Roderic Murgatroyd | Scott Benson |
| Rose Maybud |
Sarah Wind |
| Mad Margaret |
Amanda Broge |
| Dame Hannah | Kathryn Larsen |
| Zorah |
Leah Reddy |
| Ruth |
Katie Crawford |
Women’s Chorus
Mary Mescher Benbenek, Marlene Dahl, Lesley Hendrickson, Kathy Herring, Lisa Horton, Michelle Jackson, Carol Manning, Holly MacDonald, Carol Parshall, Jo Pasternack, Julie Seykora, Brianna Sullivan, Rhea Sullivan, Jean Van Heel, Natalie Westereich
Men’s Chorus
Mark Alt, Doug Dally, Ethan Edwards, Peter Erickson, L. Peter Erickson, Stephen Hage, Chris Kidder, Dean Lawrence, Warren Loud, John Orbison, Peter Parshall, Eric Pasternack, Mathieu Peterson, Richard Rames, Scott Sandberg,
Production Coordinator
Waldyn Benbenek
Rehearsal Accompanist
Jean Van Heel
Artistic Director
Wendy Evans
Show Adaptation
Waldyn Benbenek
Casting
Lesley Hendrickson, Wendy Evans, Waldyn Benbenek