A couple of weeks into the new blog and it seems to be taking shape. By now I have posted the photos of ten of the earlier shows, together with the captions they sported on the former Cornell Savoyards website. If you have any information that could lead to the identification of presently unidentified players I would be grateful if you would pass it along.
I have also begun to post more video from the 1981 Yeomen. So right now we have "Strange Adventure" (which has been up on YouTube for a while) and "When Maiden Loves" as sung beautifully by Heidi Merritt playing Phoebe Meryll. There will be more of Yeomen posted soon, so this may be a good moment to give more details of the cast and crew:
"The Yeomen of the Guard", Friday November 6 and 13, Saturday November 7 and 14, all at 8:15 pm, and Sunday November 8 and 15 at 2 pm, in Alice Statler Auditorium. 1981.
The video is from a pickup rehearsal on November 12th, 1981.
Phoebe Miss Heidi Merritt
Dame Carruthers Miss Anne Hering
Kate Ms. Laurajane Fletcher
Colonel Fairfax David Usher
Sergeant Meryll David Wyatt
Jack Point Fred Ahl
Elsie Maynard Ms. Diane Duke
Wilfred Shadbolt Robert T. Farrell
Sir Richard Cholmondely Michael Johnson
Leonard Meryll David Shefsiek (Tim Wells on Nov 14th)
Dramatic direction by Victoria Kummer
Musical direction by David Van Leer
Sets and lighting by Jim Novack
Costume Design by Charlotte Mueller and Alene Wyatt
Choreography by Bernadette Fiocca
Leonard Meryll = David Shefsiek, except Tim Wells on Saturday 14th November, and Jim Mueller sang 1st and 2nd yeomen in the opening chorus.
David -- so happy to see this blog (just learned of it via a Savoyards email blast), and to learn that you're posting videos from our Yeoman production back in '81. Really looking forward to seeing more (Alene and David Wyatt gave me a CD recording of it many years ago, but I wanna see your smiling face!) -- Vicki Kummer
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