Audition pieces announced for Ruddigore
Mostly G&S is pleased to announce the details of auditions for Gilbert & Sullivan’s Ruddigore, which we will be performing at the Oakwood Centre, Woodley, Berkshire on 30-31 March next year.
Auditions will be held at Mostly G&S’s usual rehearsal venue in Reading on 23 November 2011 at 8:00pm.
Female roles
Rose Maybud (soprano)
Act 1 No3 p19 ‘If Someone There Chance To Be’
Act 1 No8 p34 (with Richard) ‘If Heart Both True and Tender O My Love’
Mad Margaret (mezzo soprano)
Act 1 No11 p44 ‘Cheerily Carols The Lark’
Act 1 No8 p128-130 ‘If I Were Not A Little Mad and Generally Silly’ to ‘My Opinion Doesn’t Matter’
Dame Hannah (contralto)
Act 1 No2 p15 ‘Sir Rupert Murgatroyd His Leisure and His Riches’
Act 1 No15 p87-88 (with Zorah and Adam) ‘Oh Happy the Blossom’
Zorah (soprano)
Act 1 No2 p11-12 ‘Every Day as the Days Roll On’
Act 1 No15 p87-88 (with Hannah and Adam) ‘Oh Happy the Blossom’
Male roles
Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd (disguised as Robin Oakapple in Act 1) (baritone)
Act 1 No7 p30 ‘My Boy You May Take It From Me’
Act 2 No1 p95 (with Adam) ‘I Once Was As Weak As A New Born Lamb’
Richard Dauntless (tenor)
Act 1 No8 p33 (with Rose) ‘The Battles Roar Is Over, O My Love’
Act 1 No14 p59 (with Despard) ‘You Understand’
Sir Despard Murgatroyd (baritone)
Act 1 No13 p54 ‘Oh Why Am I Moody And Sad’
Act 1 No14 p59 (with Richard) ‘The Bridegroom Comes’
Old Adam Goodheart (bass)
Act 1 No15 p87-88 (with Hannah and Zorah) ‘Oh Happy The Blossom’
Act 2 No1 p95 (with Sir Ruthven) ‘I Once Was As Weak As A New Born Lamb’
Sir Roderic Murgatroyd (bass / baritone)
Act 2 No5 p111 ‘When The Night Wind Howls’
