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The 50th annual summer production of the Madison Savoyards is The Pirates of Penzance. It will be presented in Music Hall on the UW Madison Campus in July, 2012. There will be seven performances: Friday, July 20 at 7:30; Saturday, July 21 at 7:30; Sunday, July 22 at 3:00; Thursday, July 26 at 7:30; Friday, July 27 at 7:30, Saturday, July 28 at 7:30, and Sunday, July 29 at 3:00. Tickets will go on sale in May. Audition information will be posted here when available.
The annual winter gala, How Quaint the Ways of Paradox, will be presented on Friday, February 10, 2012 at 7:30 PM, at the First Unitarian Society, Landmark Auditorium, 900 University Bay Drive. Tickets: $15 general admission, available at the door. For G&S fans, this traditional annual winter concert features great voices and characters from past and future shows. The audience, led by Director Terry Kiss Frank, will likely be invited to join in selected choruses. Bring your friends and family, G&S fans or not. (They will likely be fans by the end of the evening) It is an evening not to be missed. Wear your Savoyards tee-shirt, the older the better, as we'll celebrate our upcoming 50th annual summer production.
Watercolor: Gilbert & Sullivan Archives

There are now six short clips on this site from the next Madison Savoyards DVD: Utopia Limited to be released on February 10, 2012.
Welcome to the new Madison Savoyards Ltd. website! We have updated both content and format striving to have more information, easier to find and use, with more photographs and video. We have Professor John W. Barker's comprehensive history of Gilbert & Sullivan, one of our site's most visited items, in a new format and easier to access. Reviews of our recent performances are collected on one page so they are all easier to find and are more accessible. The logos appearing under the program cover slide show on the left are all clickable links to the applicable web site. Further improvements and additions are planned. Please let us know how we can make the site better and more useful for you.Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. The old website remains available via this link. Please note that when you navigate in the old website to return "home", you will likely return to this page. If so, and you wish to go to the old homepage, just use the above link.
The DVD of Utopia Limited, will be available for purchase at the performance of How Quaint the Ways of Paradox, on February 10, 2012.
To help us celebrate the 50th annual Madison Savoyards summer production, plan to join us after the Sunday, July 22 matinee performance of The Pirates of Penzance for a reception at the University Club. Suggested attire: A Savoyards tee-shirt, the older the better.
Watercolor: Gilbert & Sullivan Archives

