Princess Ida
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October 2022- July 2023
Directed by Gayden Wren with Musical Direction by Dr. Leonard Lehrman, Princess Ida (or Castle Adamant), based on Tennyson’s ‘The Princess’, tells the tale of a Princess and a Prince from warring kingdoms. The two kingdoms are at the end of a shaky 20-year period of peace following the engagement of the Princess Ida and the Prince Hilarion in childhood. The Princess is promised to be brought forth and married on her 21st birthday, but when the marriage party arrives, the princess isn’t there! She has fled and taken up teaching at a Women’s College!
Very Truly Yours, Gilbert & Sullivan
September 2019-March 2023
Beginning a three-year run, Gayden Wren’s epistolary drama tells the story of Gilbert & Sullivan in excerpts from their letters and contemporary memoirs, letters and journalism. It was an Off-Broadway hit in 1997, and since then has been produced by various companies around the country, including productions in Ohio, upstate New York and Texas. The current production marks the company’s first since the original run of the show ended in 1999, except for a one-night-only special mounting in 2003 to kick off the company’s 50th-anniversary season. Directed by author/original director Gayden Wren, it features a quintet of the group’s finest singers and dancers with piano accompaniment.
Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island 