Gilbert & Sullivan Bab Collection - Patience

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  • File Name: pat_bunt.gif
  • Show: Patience
  • Description: Bunthorne in aesthetic costume
  • Associated line: Enter BUNTHORNE, who changes his manner and becomes intensely melodramatic
  • File Name: pat_chur.gif
  • Show: Patience
  • Description: Masculine magnet making an appeal to a feminine churn, who ignores him
  • Associated line: By no endeavor Can magnet ever Attract a Silver Churn.
  • File Name: pat_dais.gif
  • Show: Patience
  • Description: Aesthetic man with a complicated state of mind, lying down with a daisy
  • Associated line: You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your complicated state of mind,
  • File Name: pat_hair.gif
  • Show: Patience
  • Description: Jane brushing the thin strands of her hair in preparation to put a wig on
  • Associated line: Silvered is the raven hare, Spreading is the parting straight,
  • File Name: pat_love.gif
  • Show: Patience
  • Description: Cupid and Patience
  • Associated line: I cannot tell what this love may be That commeth to all, but not to me.
  • File Name: pat_melt.gif
  • Show: Patience
  • Description: Chemist with a Dragoon in a crucible. Laboratory equipment in background
  • Associated line: Take of these elements all that is fusible, Melt them all down in a pipkin or crucible, Set the to simmer and take off the scum, And a Heavy Dragoon is the residuum!
  • File Name: pat_nail.gif
  • Show: Patience
  • Description: Hammer chasing two nails
  • Associated line: While every nail went off its head And hither and thither began to roam, Till a hammer came up -- and drove them home.
  • File Name: pat_prit.gif
  • Show: Patience
  • Description: Grosvenor appealing to Patience
  • Associated line: Prithee, pretty maiden -- prithee, tell me true, (Hey, but I'm doleful, willow willow waly)
  • File Name: pat_unif.gif
  • Show: Patience
  • Description: Dragoon admiring himself in mirror while satisfied tailor looks on
  • Associated line: When I first put this uniform on, I said, as I looked in the glass, "It's one to a million That any civilian My figure and form will surpass.
  • File Name: pat_post.gif
  • Show: H.M.S. Pinafore
  • Description: The poster art from The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company's 1990 performance of Patience
  • Gilbert & Sullivan's
    Patience
    A Comic Operetta
    or Bunthoune's Bride
    The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company
    Performances
    Friday & Saturday 8 pm; Sunday 2 pm March 23, 24,25
    Friday & Saturday 8 pm; Sunday 2 pm March 30,31 and April 1
    Thursday, Friday, Saturday 8 pm; Sunday 2 pm April 5, 6, 7, 8
    Howard Conn Fine Arts Center
    1900 Nicollet Avenue South
    Minneapolis, Minnesota
    Tickets
    Adults $8.50 Children $5.50 Call the Cricket Box Office: 871-2244

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