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​2022 G&S Opera Sydney Season

G&S Opera Sydney will be presenting The Pirates of Penzance this year!

Shows will be in Wyong, Bundanoon and North Sydney (main season) Sept-Oct 2022

Audition Bookings for Principal Roles are Now Closed!

Principal Cast Announcement

PRINCIPAL ROLES - Cast Announcement
  • MAJOR-GENERAL STANLEY - Andrew Pennycuick
  • THE PIRATE KING- Tobias Page
  • SAMUEL (his Lieutenant) - William Papantoniou
  • FREDERIC (the Pirate Apprentice) - John L'Estrange 
  • SERGEANT OF POLICE  - Oskar Loofs
  • RUTH (a Pirate Maid of all Work) - Jane Van Balen
​(General Stanley's Daughters)
  • MABEL  - Suzanne Chin / Galatea Kneath (shared role)
  • EDITH  - Suzanne Chin / Galatea Kneath (shared role)
  • KATE - Andrea Ginsberg 
  • ISABEL - Sophie Booth
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Understudies
  • FREDERIC - Michael Clewes
  • MAJOR-GENERAL STANLEY - Anthony Smith
  • ​SAMUEL - Joshua Knight
  • ​RUTH - Ballina Gee
  • MABEL - Mackenzie Lawrence
  • EDITH - Mackenzie Lawrence

​DIRECTORIAL TEAM
​Musical Director: Rod Mounjed
Director & Choreographer: Elizabeth Lowrencev
Asst. Director: Dawn Pugh
Costumier: Sandra Tutt


 

The Pirates of Penzance

 
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The Pirates of Penzance Production Team

Stage Director - Elizabeth Lowrencev
Musical Director - ​Rod Mounjed
Assistant to the Director - TBD
Costumier -  Sandra Tutt
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Roles
  • MAJOR-GENERAL STANLEY
  • THE PIRATE KING
  • SAMUEL (his Lieutenant)
  • FREDERIC (the Pirate Apprentice)
  • SERGEANT OF POLICE
  • RUTH (a Pirate Maid of all Work)
​(General Stanley's Daughters)
  • MABEL
  • EDITH 
  • KATE 
  • ISABEL

  • Chaperones & Daughters chorus
  • Pirates & Policeman chorus
PERFORMANCES

Wyong
With Palm Court orchestra

2pm Saturday  24 September
The Art House:  19/21 Margaret St. Wyong NSW  Get Directions
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​BUNDANOON
With Palm Court orchestra

2pm Saturday 1 October
7:30pm Saturday 1 October
​Soldiers' Memorial Hall: 3 Railway Ave, Bundanoon NSW Get Directions
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​NORTH SYDNEY (main season)
With Full 25 piece orchestra

8pm Friday 7 October
2pm Saturday 8 October
8pm Saturday 8 October
2pm Sunday 9 October
Smith Auditorium - Shore School: Blue St, North Sydney NSW  Get Directions
Click HERE for Shore Car Parking and Public Transport Information.
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Elizabeth Lowrencev, Stage Director & ​Choreographer

Elizabeth began her association with Gilbert and Sullivan Operettas with a school production of HMS Pinafore. Elizabeth began directing and choreographing in 1994, with The Sorcerer for Loyola Musical Society, and continued with Patience, My Fair Lady, and Oklahoma! She directed and choreographed The Gondoliers for Savoy Opera Company (Victoria) in 1998. With Inter’acte Theatre Co Elizabeth directed The Importance of Being Earnest, as with Leo9 theatre Co. Elizabeth directed and choreographed Strathfield Musical Society’s 2012 production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. With GSOS Elizabeth has directed The Gondoliers, The Mikado, Princess Ida and HMS Pinafore. Elizabeth has been writing, devising and directing plays since 1993 with ‘Drama with a Difference’ and ‘Kids up Front Drama Academy’.  In 2003 she choreographed for the Schools Spectacular, performed at Sydney Opera House. 

Her show performances include "Morticia" in in Strathfield Musical Society’s The Addams Family, "the Wicked Witch" in Strathfield Musical Society’s Wizard of Oz, "Elsa Schraeder" in Rockdale Musical Society’s The Sound of Music, "Mad Margaret" in Savoy Opera Co’s Ruddigore, and "Lysistrata" in Intr’acte Theatre Co’s production of Lysistrata. She was involved in Nova Theatre Company’s The Music Man, Oklahoma!, Oliver!, Kiss Me Kate, The Boyfriend, Hello Dolly, and Savoy Opera Company’s Yeomen of the Guard(x2), The Mikado(x2), Princess Ida, The Gondoliers(x2), HMS Pinafore, Iolanthe, Ruddigore, Pirates of Penzance, and Trial By Jury, Intr’acte Theatre Co’s  Wyrd Sisters, The Droitwich Discovery, Lysistrata, The Importance of Being Earnest, Gods Fools’ production of Godspell, and Strathfield Musical Society’s The Music Man. 

Vocal recording, CD “Hail Redeemer” from Our Lady of Victories Basilica. 
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Rod Mounjed, Musical Director

Rod has been Musical Directing since 1985, when he first designed the music for the play Cloud Nine at the Seymour Centre. Recent Musical Design in 2002-4 has included The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare by the Sea). Since 2000 Rod has worked as a conductor with Symphony Australia’s conducting program and has worked interstate with different ensembles and orchestras from each of the major symphony orchestras around Australia, specializing in the works of Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Grieg and Beethoven.

Rod has worked with the Savoy Arts Company since 1991 (Iolanthe, Princess Ida (twice) Pirates of Penzance, Yeomen of the Guard, HMS Pinafore and The Gondoliers). With Regals Musical Society has conducted Broadway Pirates of Penzance, Pippin, Oklahoma, Chess, Annie, Me & My Girl. His two shows with the Rockdale Musical Society have been Anything Goes and Mame. He has conducted Ruddigore for Rockdale Opera in 2011.

For the past three decades he has been the resident Musical Director at Lugar Brae Players and has participated in HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, South Pacific, Oklahoma, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Me & My Girl, The Pajama Game, Guys and Dolls, Oliver, Annie Get Your Gun, Sound of Music. He volunteered to help conduct Yeoman of the Guard and Iolanthe for the G & S Singfest (Glen Street Theatre and Zenith Theatre).

As a pianist he has recorded for SMP classics, works by Mendelssohn (Songs without Words), Beethoven (Late Piano Sonatas Op.109, 110 & 111), and “An Evening with G & S” for violin and piano.
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