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Previous Shows

The Spring 2005 show was
Princess Ida

Produced by Jessica Bloom '07, Celia Maccoby '07, and Margaret Maloney '06
Directed by Charlie Miller '08
Music Directed by Ben Green '06

The Fall 2005 show was
Ruddigore

Produced by Emma Katz '06, Casey Lurtz '07, and Fran Moore '06
Directed by J. Jacob Krause
Music Directed by Aram Demirjian '08

Next Show

The Fall 2006 show will be
HMS Pinafore

Tickets

The Harvard Box Office in Holyoke Center can be reached at (617) 496-2222.
Tickets for each show go on sale approximately one month before performances begin.

The Theatre

The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players perform in the Agassiz Theatre, in Radcliffe Yard. The theatre has orchestra and balcony seating, each level divided into three sections. Please check the Harvard Box Office website for ticket prices. Handicapped seating is available.

Press Release

October 18, 2006

CAMBRIDGE, MA – The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) are celebrating their 50th anniversary this fall season with a double bill of H.M.S. Pinafore and Trial by Jury at the Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard. In addition to the group's usual two weekends of performances, there will be a special third weekend of shows and events especially for alumni, including exhibitions of Gilbert and Sullivan and HRG&SP memorabilia, talent shows, a sing-along and an orchestra play-along, and most notably, a Victorian Ball.

Founded in 1956, the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players is recognized as one of New England's leading Gilbert and Sullivan troupes. HRG&SP is an independent, nonprofit student theater group dedicated to performing comic operas. Its shows are among the best attended, budgeted and staffed productions on the Harvard campus. The group is primarily supported by its wide circle of patrons throughout the Boston area.

Directing the shows will be Charlie Miller, Harvard College '08, for the stage, and Ben Green, Harvard College '06, for the music. The team also worked together on HRG&SP's production of Princess Ida in the Spring of 2005. Says Miller of the opportunity, "It is such an honor to direct H.M.S. Pinafore and Trial By Jury for HRG&SP's 50th Anniversary. We have assembled an extraordinarily talented cast of all Harvard undergraduates for the productions, in addition to our veteran staff of student designers and technicians. I know there will be magic in the air on opening night when thirty powerful singers join in for the final chorus of 'He is an Englishman' on the stage of the historic Agassiz Theatre."

This 50th anniversary is notable because of HRG&SP's importance to Harvard's theater tradition. Jack Megan, director of Harvard's Office for the Arts, said of the group: "When one thinks of Harvard and Radcliffe's many many wonderful performance traditions — the choruses, the many drama societies, dance troupes, visual and literary arts societies — one has to name the G&S Players as being among the richest of these traditions. Ultimately, the Players ensure that successive new generations of theatergoers have an appreciation for the craft of Sir Arthur Sullivan and William Gilbert. Here's to the next 50 years!"

Emma Katz, Harvard College '06, remains in the Boston area this fall to direct the 50th festivities. "It is wonderful that after 50 years at Harvard students continue to be enthusiastic about Gilbert and Sullivan and this organization. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to bring together G&S lovers from so many generations, including many who have gone on to theatrical success beyond Harvard," said Katz.

The celebration will highlight the time-honored tradition of Gilbert and Sullivan on the Agassiz stage, at Harvard College, and in the greater Cambridge and Boston communities. By bringing together those students currently involved with the organization with its fifty years of alumnae, the HRG&SP 50th Anniversary weekend will surely be a rollicking good time for all involved, filled with joy and rapture!

For more information, please contact:

Jessica Bloom
Publicity Coordinator,
HRG&SP 50th Anniversary Celebration
bloom@fas.harvard.edu
(781) 799-9289