Patience in Lexington, MA

[Jamieson Cobleigh]

Operetta 2018: Patience!

 

June 8 & 9, 2018 at 8:00 pm

Follen Church, 755 Mass. Ave., Lexington, MA

 

Directed by Sara Haugland

Musical preparation by Vivian Montgomery

 

Tickets $15, available on brownpapertickets.com

For more information, contact Patie...@follen.org

 

For more than 55 years, Follen Church has put on an operetta by Gilbert and Sullivan. This tradition celebrates music, humor and widespread participation for children and youth of many ages who are supported by adults in the church community.

Patience is a playful comedy that pokes fun at the societal fads we all fall sway to at one point or another. If you’ve ever gone for that perm whole hog, or caved to buy your first pair of jeggings, you’ll be able to identify with the maidens of Patience’s world. Similarly, if you’ve stalwartly held onto your bell-bottoms, or insisted that your scrunchie was the way to go, the dragoon guards will be your pals.

In Patience we learn to laugh at ourselves through the mirror of Gilbert and Sullivan’s characters and to find joy in owning our own likes and dislikes. Set in the late 1800’s, the townspeople and guards swirl around in a tizzy over a ridiculous poet and his fervently unrequited love interest, the simple milkmaid, Patience. All is thrown into chaos when an even more irresistible poet arrives with an entirely different style of verse to offer the love-sick townspeople.