Event

The Topsy-Turvy Quarantine Series: Ruddigore 2019

The Pittsburgh Savoyards present: The Topsy-Turvy Quarantine Series, starting with our Fall 2019 production of Ruddigore.

After purchasing a ticket, you will be emailed a link to watch a streaming recording of the show. Please note that this email may take up to 10 minutes to arrive. If you have still not received an email after 10 minutes, please contact information@pittsburghsavoyards.org and we will be happy to assist you.

Tickets will be available to purchase until May 1.

PLEASE NOTE that the date and time on the event (May 1, 1AM - 1:01AM) is due to system limitations only; you will be able to view the performance at any time until May 2.

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Stage Director: Michael McFaden
Music Director: Guy Russo

A satirical take on the Victorian Melodrama genre, Ruddigore, or the Witchs Curse, has a zany plot with it allghosts, witches, curses, disguises, and even a wicked villain who tries to make off with the fair maiden. All of the Baronets of the locale of Ruddigore are under a terrible curse enacted by a witch long agoeach of the successive Baronets must commit some kind of a crime every single day, or else they will die in terrible agony. Robin Oakapple has been living as a farmer for years, working up the courage to ask the beautiful village maiden Rose Maybud for her hand, but he is hiding a secret: he is actually Sir Ruthven, the Baronet of Ruddigore, and has been hiding in disguise while his younger brother Despard assumed the titleand the curse. Betrayed by his foster-brother Richard, Robin is discovered and must take on the responsibility of committing a crime every day in order to appease the curseand the ghosts of all his ancestors past, who are none too happy with his attempt to shirk his title. Robin must somehow find a way to lead the honest life he loves but how?