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'The Gondoliers' to be staged in Pultneyville Gilbert & Sullivan's, The Gondoliers will be presented during Pultneyville's homecoming. The course of true love has never been so amusingly frustrated by class distinction and mistaken identity as in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Gondoliers, which the Gatesinger Company will perform at Gates Hall July 20 and 21 at 8 p.m. and July 22 at 3 p.m. Brothers Marco (Karen Karnisky) and Giuseppe Palmieri (Ann Rhody), humble gondoliers, have just wed beautiful peasant girls, respectively Gianetta (Amanda Kish) and Tessa (Jaime Akerley), when the brothers learn that one of them (which is not known) is actually a prince. The prince was married in infancy to Casilda (Emily Sawdey), daughter of the Duke (John L'Hommedieu) and Dutchess of Plaza-Toro (Karen Nail), and immediately thereafter removed from his native land, the Kingdom of Barataria, by the Grand Inquisitor, Don Alhambra (Wayne Vander Byl), to be raised in Venice as a gondolier, safe from unfortunate civil upheaval. Twenty years since, the King of Barataria has died and the Duke now wishes to reunite Casilda with her husband the prince, so they may together claim the thrown of Barataria as King and Queen. But meanwhile the identity of the prince has become obscure to all concerned and the lovely Casilda has fallen in love with her father's retainer, the drummer Luiz (Shawn Mealey), a love that must be denied because of their unequal social rank. A chorus of contadine (Carla Cogliandro, Barbara Hunn, Diana Hunn, Katie Holleran, Patti Montrois, Anne Vander Byl and Nicole Vinci) and gondolieri (Jim Nail, Charles Palella and Carl Webeck) celebrates the good fortune of the brothers Palmieri as they leave the canals of Venice to follow their destiny on the Isle of Barataria. Whether romance, marriage, rank and fortune will be gained or lost depends upon the revelation of the prince's identity by Inez (Amanda Lobaugh), the infant brothers' long-lost nursemaid. Call the Gatesinger box office at 589.3326 to reserve your tickets for The Gondoliers and learn who is the true prince and who the true gondolier. Copyright
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