New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: The Yeomen of the Guard
Historically intriguing, musically thrilling, and the only Gilbert & Sullivan piece set in a realistic time and place, The Yeomen of the Guard tells the story of a falsely accused prisoner in the Tower of London, the two girls who loved him, and an out of work itinerant jester in grand and colorful fashion – with humor and a touch of pathos.
New York Magazine: “a trim and colorful representation of the lively antics on Tower Green in sixteenth-century London…a dashingly romantic figure with…an elegant way with words (and). comic spice…the ladies could hardly have looked or sounded more delicious. The Yeomen of the Guard is laced with an undercurrent of melancholy, and Bergeret gives that quality more attention in his nuanced treatment of Sullivan’s wistfully delicate ensembles and Gilbert’s often bitter self-mocking identification with Jack Point. But that never prevented general merriment from reigning onstage.
Runtime: 3 Hours
New York Magazine: “a trim and colorful representation of the lively antics on Tower Green in sixteenth-century London…a dashingly romantic figure with…an elegant way with words (and). comic spice…the ladies could hardly have looked or sounded more delicious. The Yeomen of the Guard is laced with an undercurrent of melancholy, and Bergeret gives that quality more attention in his nuanced treatment of Sullivan’s wistfully delicate ensembles and Gilbert’s often bitter self-mocking identification with Jack Point. But that never prevented general merriment from reigning onstage.
Runtime: 3 Hours

