Pittsburgh Savoyards

The Savoyards will appear and perform on Pittsburgh Today on KDKA tomorrow, Friday April 25th. The show starts at 9, with our appearance expected to be around 9:30-9:45. Check it out!

UPDATE watch the segments here:

20th Century Club Hosts Savoyards Dress Ball

Pittsburgh Savoyards Perform On PTL

The Tribune Review did a nice write up on our 75th anniversary of performing Gilbert and Sullivan in Pittsburgh, with mention of our upcoming fundraiser, The Grand Duke Dress Ball on April 26th! Tickets available by pre-purchase only, until April 19th by mail, and until April 22 online!

The Flowers of Progress from our recent Pittsburgh premiere of Utopia, Limited congratulate themselves on having anglicized the island kingdom of Utopia. If you missed us this time, never fear! Join us on April 26th at the Twentieth Century Club for the Grand Duke’s Dress Ball.

The Pittsburgh Savoyards are seeking a Stage Director for our Fall 2014 production,
The Sorcerer, by Gilbert & Sullivan. Performance dates are Oct 10 – 19, 2014. Resumes and Letters accepted through Saturday May 3, 2014. Interviews to be scheduled during the weekend of May 10/11 by appointment. Gilbert & Sullivan or other Operetta experience preferred.

Send letters of interest, resumes (MS-WORD; PDF; or Text) and contact information to:
directorsearch@pittsburghsavoyards.org

Or Mail to:
DIRECTOR SEARCH – The Sorcerer
Pittsburgh Savoyards
P.O. Box 44065
Pittsburgh, PA 15205-4065

For additional information or inquiries,
email directorsearch@pittsburghsavoyards.org
or call 412-734-8476 to leave voice mail.

The radio is buzzing with news about the 75th Anniversary of the Pittsburgh Savoyards and the Pittsburgh Premiere of Utopia Limited! WQED radio’s host and artistic director Jim Cunningham interviewed cast member Michael Greenstein, Music Director and Conductor Guy Russo and Stage Director Robert Hockenberry. You can hear the interview segments on the radio this week, or check out the archived direct links below!

Pittsburgh Savoyards 75th Anniversary – Michael Greenstein Interview – 03/03/2014
Pittsburgh Savoyards 75th Anniversary – Guy Russo Interview – 03/03/2014
Pittsburgh Savoyards 75th Anniversary – Rob Hockenberry Interview – 03/03/2014

Thanks to an amazing Utopia cast member and volunteer, Annette Bransby Frontz, we are excited to provide a free educational ‘study guide’ to help get you ready for the Pittsburgh Premiere of Utopia Limited.  Annette dives into many areas, including the legal elements of the storyline, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaboration history, and what makes an operetta different from a musical. We hope that this new document will be a great asset to teachers, school students, and opera enthusiasts in better understanding one of G&S’s most complex creations.

The Utopia Limited Study Guide is available as the Full Study Guide download (11pages) or divided into three sections “Operas, Operettas and musicals”, “Utopia Production: Synopsis, Cast and Musical Numbers” and “Show History and Literature Connections”.

See our Utopia Limited Show Page for more info about our March 7th-16th production!

We are pleased to offer local nonprofit organizations a limited number of free tickets to the opening weekend of its upcoming Pittsburgh premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Utopia, Limited (March 7, 8 and 9, 2014).

“To celebrate our 75th Anniversary Season, we decided to raise awareness of our own mission while benefitting the groups that help make Pittsburgh so special.” – Savoyards Trustee, M. Daffner.

The free tickets will be for general-admission seats, and will be honored at any of the three opening-weekend. Local nonprofit groups with an educational mission will
be preferred.  For consideration and more information about this offer please view our Nonprofit Ticket Offer press release.

Tickets for the Pittsburgh Premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Utopia Limited are now for sale! Get yours today to save with our Earlybird discount.

We are happy to announce the cast list for our upcoming Spring production; the Pittsburgh Premiere of “Utopia Limited”. We would like to thank all of those who came out to audition for us this month!

Check  out the full cast listing on our show page!

Update 2/13/14: Doublecast performance breakdown now listed!

In celebration of our 75th season, the Pittsburgh Savoyards are hosting The Grand Duke’s Dress Ball: a black tie event, featuring the PS orchestra and singers. The event will be held on April 26, 2014 at the Twentieth Century Club, which is the location of the very first shows performed by the Pittsburgh Savoyards!

Stay tuned for details!