This performance will take place at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater.
524 West 59th Street, New York, NY (Between 10th and 11th Avenues)

Despite its title, Ruddigore is neither gory nor scary. This topsy-turvy take on stock melodrama characters includes a group of professional bridesmaids, a village maiden who is wedded to her book of etiquette (with hilarious results), a timid suitor in disguise, a charming but backstabbing heroic sailor, a hysterical mad maiden, and a picture gallery of ghostly ancestors who step out of their frames in a most dramatic fashion. When the disguised suitor is revealed by his brother to be a Bad Baronet with the family curse of being required to commit a crime each day, roles get reversed and the logical comment of the mad girl puts the proceedings in proper comic relief with her proclamation: “They sing choruses in public. That’s mad enough I think.”


“Spirited & rich-textured. The inevitable romantic mixups and chorus and dance numbers 
are all here, as is a conclusion steeped in wonderfully twisted logic that allows everyone to 
live cheerily ever after.” – New York Times 
 
Run Time: 2 hours and 55 minutes 

To purchase ADA accessible seats please call the Box Office 212-772-4448.
 
*Family Overture 
Musical introduction and plot summary made entertaining for the entire family (12:45 PM in theatre on Saturday)