March 16th, 2012
To
March 25th, 2012
Performances
- March 16th, 2012 7:30 pm
- March 17th, 2012 7:30 pm
- March 18th, 2012 6:00 pm
- March 23rd, 2012 7:30 pm
- March 24th, 2012 7:30 pm
- March 25th, 2012 6:00 pm
Director
Friedrich SchlottMusic Director
Friedrich SchlottChoreographer
Ta'Mara BaleStage Manager
Patty OlsonProduction Crew
| Assistant Musical Director | Corbit Sampson |
| Assistant Props | Jeanette Tucker |
| Costume creator | Friedrich Schlott |
| Costume creator | Courtney Turnley |
| Costume design | Albert Guerra |
| Light Crew | Lori Raymaker |
| Light Crew | Carly Gorman |
| Light Crew | Regina Pelone Acosta |
| Light Crew | Mira McClellan |
| Light Crew | Stephanie Balk |
| Light design | Dale Borer |
| Makeup | Jackie Sprynczynatyk |
| Production Assistant | Sarah Sveen |
| Prop mistress | Jeanette Tucker |
| Prop mistress | Ann Sveen |
| Set artist | Laurel Spitzer |
| Set construction | Jeff Jones |
| Set construction | TaMara Bale |
| Set construction | Albert Guerra |
| Set construction | Friedrich Schlott |
| Set design | Friedrich Schlott |
| Set painter | Andrea Gonzales |
| Special effects creator | Stella Chamberlain |
Musicians
| Orchestra | Robert Steinberg |
"HMS Pinafore"
CSTOCK Black Box Presents
The fourth collaboration between Gilbert & Sullivan was their first blockbuster hit: "HMS Pinafore", or "The Lass That Loved a Sailor." This opera opened May 28, 1878 at the Opera Comique. It ran for 571 performances and became a huge fad in England, as well as in America, being copied illegally by dozens of performing companies in the US, as well as being presented there by Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte themselves. Pinafore is among the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan operas, perhaps because of its infectious tunes and generally well-constructed libretto.
Drawing on several of his earlier "bab ballad" poems, Gilbert embued HMS Pinafore with mirth and silliness to spare. The opera's gentle satire reprises and builds upon one of The Sorcerer's themes: Love between members of different social classes. The gentlemanly Captain of the Pinafore, who claims that he would never swear at his crew (What, Never?), does not know that his daughter has fallen in love with a common sailor serving on her father's ship. Meanwhile, the Captain has arranged for her to marry the First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter. Sir Joseph himself has risen from humble beginnings to gain his office by political acumen, despite having never gone to sea! And the Captain himself fancies a poor bumboat woman. Fear not: it all works out in the end. Hip, hip, hoorah!
| Actor/Actress | Character Role(s) | |
| Troy Turnley | Sir Joseph Porter K.C.B. | |
| Walter Brown | Captain Corcoran |  |
| Zander Martin | Ralph Rackstraw | |
| Connor Delaney | Dick Deadeye | |
| Steven Connell | Bill Bobstay | |
| Johnny Felty | Tom Tucker | |
| Val Herman | Frank Forecastle | |
| Stella Chamberlain | Pat | |
| Jes Sveen | Rutland Rigging | |
| Ann Sveen | Little Buttercup | |
| Natika Shewry | Josephine Corcoran | |
| Robin Lund | Hebe Porter | |
| Courtney Turnley | Rose Porter | |
| Sheryl Usman | Lily Porter | |
| Lorinda Esposito | Daisy Porter | |
| Leah Spitzer | Hyacinth Porter | |
| Destiny Marie Usman | Fern Porter | |
| Celeste Esposito | Petunia Porter | |
| Serenity Usman | Ivy Porter | |
| TaMara Bale | Jessy | |
| Duncan Turnley | Sir Duncan Porter A.K.C. | |