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