SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre Presents: A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder
Musical TheatreSFCM’s Musical Theatre presents a hilarious romp with unforgettable music, non-stop laughs, and a scene-stealing role featuring a distant heir to a family fortune set out to speed up the line of succession by using a great deal of charm... and a dash of murder.
Cast
Seth Hanson, Monty Navarro
Alyssa Vieau, Marietta Shingle
Adellyn Geenan, Sibella Hallward
Cora-Melin Mikat, Asquith D’Ysquith, Jr.
Lord Aldelbert D’Ysquith
Reverend Ezekiel D’Ysquith
Lord Asquith D’Ysquith, Sr.
Henry D’Ysquith
Lady Hyacinth D’Ysquith
Major Lord Batholomew D’Ysquith
Lady Salome D’Ysquith Pumphrey
Chauncey
Madison Barton-Holloway, Tour Guide
Newsboys
Ensemble
Morgan Wolfe, Miss Barley
Ensemble
Roy Eikleberry*, Tom Copley
Newsboys
Actor
Guard
Ensemble
Syona Ayyankeril, Phoebe D’Ysquith
Solomon Shumate, Newsboys
Actor
Chief Inspector Pinckney
Ensemble
Catherine Durcan, Newsboys
Lady Eugenia D’Ysquith
Ensemble
Alex Perkins*, Actor
Magistrate
Ensemble
Departments
Faculty
About SFCM’s Opera and Musical Theatre Program
The SFCM Opera and Musical Theatre program draws exceptionally talented young singers from around the world and provides them with advanced training in vocal style, acting, stage movement, and other essentials of stagecraft. Each year, SFCM produces four fully staged opera and musical theatre productions with full or chamber orchestra. Recent fully staged operas have included L’elisir d’amore, Don Giovanni, Mansfield Park, Postcard from Morocco, The Rake’s Progress, Così fan tutte, The Marriage of Figaro, and former faculty composer Conrad Susa’s Transformations. SFCM has hosted workshops for in-development opera projects such as Mason Bates’s The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs and Jake Heggie’s Great Scott.
In addition to fully staged productions, a number of scenes, programs, and other performances with piano accompaniment are presented each year. Opera students also have an opportunity to receive coaching from San Francisco Opera music staff, and to participate in productions tailored for school-age audiences in collaboration with San Francisco Opera’s Education Department.
SFCM’s Musical Theatre Workshop provides ensemble experience to singer/actors with an emphasis on American musical theatre, examining one or more musical theatre composers and their works through rehearsals and performance. Recent performances include such works as The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, She Loves Me, Company, Little Women, Urinetown, and The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!).
Visiting artists have included Ryan Taylor (General Director, Minnesota Opera), Roy Rallo (Stage Director, San Francisco Opera), David Maier (Fight Director, San Francisco Opera), Barbara Scott (Improvisation Technique), Matt Chapman (Laban Technique), and Jose Luis Moscovich (General Director, West Bay Opera).
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