Topsy-Turvy Quarantine Series: Yeomen of the Guard

The Pittsburgh Savoyards present: The Topsy-Turvy Quarantine Series, continuing with our Fall 2018 production of The Yeomen of the Guard.

After purchasing a ticket, you will be emailed a link to watch a streaming recording of the show. Please note that this email may take up to 10 minutes to arrive. If you have still not received an email after 10 minutes, please contact information@pittsburghsavoyards.org and we will be happy to assist you.

Tickets will be available to purchase until August 1.

PLEASE NOTE that the date and time on the event (August 1, 12AM) is due to system limitations only; you will be able to view the performance at any time until August 2.

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Stage Director: Sally Denmead
Music Director: Guy Russo

The Yeomen of the Guard, or The Merryman and His Maid is Gilbert and Sullivan’s sparkling comic opera set in Shakespearean times during the reign of King Henry VIII. It is the darkest and most emotionally engaging of the Savoy Operas. The show takes place in the Tower of London where the gentleman Colonel Fairfax is wrongly accused of sorcery and sentenced to death within the hour. Fairfax hatches a plan to avoid letting his estate fall into the hands of his scheming cousin (incidentally, his accuser) by secretly marrying Elsie Maynard, a strolling singer. She agrees to be blindfolded during the ceremony and expects to be a wealthy widow upon Fairfax’s imminent demise, leaving her free to marry her lover, the jester Jack Point. However, Fairfax miraculously escapes his fate and chaos ensues.