Madison Savoyards, Ltd.
The 2008 Summer production:
The Mikado
July 18-19-20; 25-26-27 - Music Hall
Last produced by the Madison Savoyards in 1998, the 2008 production, the 46th annual summer show, will be our sixth production of The Mikado (1969, 1975, 1983, 1990, and 1998). Terry Kiss Frank returns as Stage Director having last directed the highly acclaimed 2006 production of Patience. As Fanfare Magazine's observed in their review of Patence, "The cast is adept at delivering Gilbert’s humor. They know which lines, and often words, need to be emphasized and how to punch them without gratuitous overstatement. Nary a joke was lost. The diction, both spoken and sung, is exemplary..." Christopher Ocasek will make his Madison Savoyard debut as Music Director and Conductor.
Our Mission
The Madison Savoyards, Ltd. presents fully staged productions with orchestra of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas every summer in Madison, WI. Beginning in 1963 with Iolanthe the Savoyards has produced all the G&S works over its history.
With Ringing Cheer
The Madison Savoyards, Ltd. celebrated past productions and the upcoming Mikado on February 1 at the First United Methodist Church. The Savoyards' intrepid and gifted photographer, Marie Schulte, captured the spirit of the evening. Some of those photos are available here.
The Sorcerer and Cox & Box DVD released
The 2007 production of The Sorcerer and Cox & Box is now available. The DVD includes both The Sorcerer and Cox & Box complete with all dialog on one disc with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound and is priced at $25.00. It is a live recording of the July 28, 2007 performance in Music Hall. A two CD set of The Sorcerer is also available for $20.00 and a single CD of Cox & Box for $12.00. To order, print the order form, fill out, send with check to Madison Savoyards. Ltd. Note new prices as of 2/1/2008. All Madison Savoyards DVDs and CDs are also available from Amazon.com.
Fanfare Magazine reviews Madison Savoyards DVD and CD of the 2006 Patience Production
The July/August 2007 issue of Fanfare Magazine (Volume 30, No. 6) "The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors" has a wonderfully detailed and thoughtful review of our Patience DVD and CD (page 316-317).
Our thanks to the Publisher of Fanfare Magazine for graciously granting permissin to post the complete review on our site.
Contribute on-line to the Madison Savoyards Ltd.
The Madison Savoyards has a "passthrough" fund at the Madison Community Foundation. This is a service provided by the Madison Community Foundation for organizations having endowment funds at the Madison Community Foundation. The passthrough fund is not an endowment fund but was established as a mechanism for contributors to make on-line donations to the Madison Savoyards. The purpose of the fund is to support the recording of performances and to enhance the production values of our annual performances. You may contribute directly to this fund on line via this link. (Note: using this link selects the Madison Savoyards, Ltd. Passthrough Fund) If you would like to contribute to the Madison Savoyards Endowment Fund, see the following section.
Madison Savoyards Ltd. Endowment Fund
The Madison Savoyards has an endowment fund at the Madison Community Foundation. You may contribute directly to this fund on line via this link. (Note: using this link selects the Madison Savoyards, Ltd. Endowment Fund)
Gilbert & Sullivan
Prof. John W. Barker has written a wonderful piece on Gilbert and Sullivan, their backgrounds, the collaboration, with interesting details about the work they produced. The mission of the Madison Savoyards is to present the works of Gilbert and Sullivan with careful attention to the elements that made them so great. Prof. Barker's article provides much insight into these unique creations.
Previous Program Archive
We are scanning programs from prior productions and making them available on this site in PDF format. To date we have 1972 and 1977 through 2005 completed and posted. If and when we can locate the remaining programs, they will be added. If you have any programs for the years 1963 - 1971 and 1973 - 1976, we would like to borrow them so we could scan and add to the web site. Please contact us if you have any we are missing.
