Programme 1961 – Patience

Produced by DOROTHY HOLDERNESS.
Musical Direction by ARTHUR YOUNG.

HASTINGS
LIGHT OPERA COMPANY

GILBERT & SULLIVAN’S
PATIENCE

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Foreword from His Worship the Mayor.

The writing of this foreword for the First Performance by the Hastings Light Opera Company, gives me very great pleasure indeed, as many people in our community will derive the greatest pleasure and satisfaction from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Opera “Patience.”

The new Company will enable those with vocal and acting ability to use their talents for the pleasure of others, besides themselves. I am sure you will wish this new Company every success in this Opera, and in any future undertaking.

May I commend them to you for your support.

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from DONALD MUNRO
It is a privilege to be asked to write a foreword for the first performance of the Hastings Light Opera Company.

The artistic standards attained by amateur societies throughout New Zealand are remarkably high, and in many cases these societies have proved an excellent training ground for those wishing to make the professional theatre their career. Furthermore, they have been instrumental in keeping alive in New Zealand many works of world renown, such as “Patience,” and in paving the way for the true professional theatre which is now rising so successfully and rapidly in New Zealand.

The formation of a new society is always an event. From experience I know only too well the enormous amount of work which goes into the founding of an artistic venture in New Zealand, and I would like to take this opportunity of congratulating all concerned on what I feel sure will be a most successful venture.

DONALD MUNRO,
Artistic Director,
N.Z. OPERA COMPANY.

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15th April, 1961.

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Producer’s Notes

Mrs. DOROTHY HOLDERNESS.

Just 80 years ago – it was first produced on the 23rd April, 1881 – “Patience” was launched on an unsuspecting England. The convenient charm of the title concealed one of W. S. Gilbert’s most biting satires and provided justification for some of Sullivan’s loveliest music.

Patience laughs at the Pre-Raphaelites – that precious group, led by William Morris, who had rebelled against the blatent [blatant] prosperity of Victorian England. They disproved [disapproved] of the patriotic poet; the lavish fabrics – anilined dyes had just been discovered; the factory furniture and the fabulous aristocracy. They pursued the cult of the hand-made – curious hand-carved furniture, hand painted wallpaper, hand-woven draperies – all coloured with murky vegetable dyes. They despised the gross materialism of the time, and paid homage to obscure poet in love with words – they idealised anaemic women painted by such artists as Burne Jones. They were irresistible to Gilbert, who has given us aesthetic young ladies spiritually in love with aesthetic poets; admiring colours with the bloom of “cold gravy”, and altogether behaving in a most ridiculous way. Mediaevalism was the cult of the Pre-Raphaelites, and Mediaevelism [Mediaevalism] was the butt of Gilbert’s jokes.

It was also the age of patriotic fervour and so Gilbert has his dragoons – made up of “all the remarkable people in history.” He laughs at them too, but in a more kindly fashion, while Sullivan composed some rowsing songs for them.

Sullivan’s music for Patience is delightful. The Ballad, “Love is a plaintive song,” is one of the finest he ever wrote for a soprano; while his “Silvered is the raven hair,” which he gives Lady Jane became so popular that new words were written for it, to make it more suitable for those songs in the drawing room after dinner so beloved of his generation.

Patience is perhaps one of the lesser known works of the great collaborators, but it is one of the most charming – delight to look at, and a delight to listen to, and a joy to play.

Musical Items:

OVERTURE

Act 1.
1.   Chorus of Maidens with Solos   “Twenty love-sick maidens we.” (Angela and Ella)
2.   Recitative (Patience, Saphir, Angela and Chorus) and Song (Patience).   “Still brooding on their mad infatuation.”
“I cannot tell what this love may be.”
2a.   Chorus of Maidens (Exit)   “Twenty love-sick maidens we.”
3.   Solo (Colonel) and Chorus of Dragoons.’   The soldiers of our Queen.”
4.   Chorus with Solos (Angela, Ella, Saphir and Bunthorne).   “La doleful train two and two we walk”
4a.   Chorus of Maidens (Exit).   “Twenty love-sick maidens we.”
5.   Song (Colonel)   “When I first put this uniform on.”
6.   Recitative and Song (Bunthorne)   “Am I alone and unobserved.”
7.   Duet (Patience and Angela)   “Long years ago, fourteen maybe.”
8.   Duet (Patience and Grosvener)   “Prithee pretty maiden.”
8a.   Duet (Patience and Grosvenor)   “Though to marry you would really selfish be.”
9.   Finale   “Let the merry Cymballs sound.”

ACT II
1.   Chorus of Maidens   “On such eyes as maidens cherish”
2.   Recitative and Song (Jane)   “Sad is that woman’s lot”
3.   Chorus of Maidens   “Turn, oh turn in this direction”
4.   Song (Grosvenor) and Chorus of Maidens.   “A magnet hung in a hardware shop”
5.   Song (Patience)   “Love is a plaintive song”
6.   Duet (Jane and Bunthorne)   “So go to him and say to him”
7.   Trio (Duke, Major and Colonel)   “It’s clear that mediaeval art”
8.   Quintet (Angela, Saphir, Duke, Major and Colonel)   “If Saphir I choose to marry”
9.   Duet (Bunthorne and Grosvenor)   “When I go out of door”
10.   Song (Grosvenor) and Chorus of Maidens   “I’m a Waterloo House young man”
11.   Finale   “After much-debate internal”

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“PATIENCE”
or
“BUNTHORNE’S BRIDE”

by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan

Presented by
HASTINGS LIGHT OPERA COMPANY

Produced by DOROTHY HOLDERNESS
Musical Direction by ARTHUR YOUNG
First produced by Opera Comique, London, on April 23rd, 1881

SCENES
ACT 1:   Exterior of Castle Bunthorne.
ACT 2:   A Glade

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

COLONEL CALVERLEY   Fred Geor

MAJOR MURGATROYD   Kit Tilton-Mist

LIEUT. THE DUKE OF DUNSABLE   David Denniston
Officers of Dragoon Guards

REGINALD BUNTHORNE   George Foster
(a Fleshly Poet)

ARCHIBALD GROSVENOR   Terence Coyle
(an Idyllic Poet)

Mr. BUNTHORNE’S SOLICITOR   Dave Walker

Rapturous Maidens
THE LADY ANGELA   Juliet Conway
THE LADY SAPHIR   Betty Hunt
THE LADY ELLA   Judith Steele
THE LADY JANE   Bobbie Gamble

PATIENCE   Pat Chapman
(a Dairy Maid)

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Production Personnel

Chorus Mistress:   Helen Tucker.
Stage Manager:   Hector Spence.
House Manager:   A. J. Hannon.
Electrician:   John Henderson
Properties:   K. Callingham and members of the Company
Wardrobe:
Kathleen Thomson, Dorothy Holderness, Helen Conole, June Hull and members of the company.
Prompt:   Elizabeth Shattky.
Call Boy:   Dave Walker.
Make Up:
Dorothy Holderness, Rosalie Geor, Mavis Stayt, Ella Dickens, Mona King, Joan Hughes.
Publicity: W. Tucker.
Programmes:
W. Tucker, J. R. Fussell and Mrs Holderness
Posters:  Mrs Holderness & Mrs Thomson.
Programme Cover:   Mrs Holderness
Photographs:  P. Trask and J. Hayward.

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We wish to acknowledge our appreciation for the services rendered by the following without whose help the show could not have gone on.

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