Ventura County Gilbert & Sullivan Repertoire Company presents
Patience
or, Bunthorne's Bride
March 7-23, 2025
Performances Fridays & Saturdays at 7:30pm,
Sundays at 2pm, and Thursday 3/20 at 7:30pm
In the Theatre on the Hill at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts
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Ruddigore &
Patience)
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Reserved Seating
$28 Adults
$23 Children, Students, & Seniors
$13 Starving Artists Thursday (3/20)
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Libretto by W. S. Gilbert
Directed by Rebecca Pillsbury
Musical Direction by Zachary Spencer
All of the maidens in the village are besotted with Reginald Bunthorne, a moody and handsome poet, but he has eyes only for the simple milkmaid, Patience. The problem? Bunthorne’s artistic ways are all just an act to attract women to him--he doesn’t even like poetry! Besides, Patience is in love with her childhood sweetheart, who happens to be a real poet named Archibald Grosvenor, but feels she cannot marry him because he is just too perfect. In the meantime, the serious (and decidedly non-poetic) platoon of Heavy Dragoon Guards that were meant to marry the village maidens find themselves dismayed and perplexed by their sudden loss of prospects.
