The Mikado

The Ensemble

The Directors

Derrick Ivey (Director/Choreographer) is pleased to return for his seventh collaboration with the Durham Savoyards, and with Music Director Alan Riley Jones. Previous work for the company: The Yeomen of the Guard; H.M.S. Pinafore; Patience; The Pirates of Penzance; Ruddigore; and The Mikado. Other directing credits: The Glass Menagerie; Rough Crossing; Deathtrap; Chicago – A Musical Vaudeville; The Zoo Story; The Diary of Anne Frank; Lady Windermere's Fan; and Oliver – as well as his original stage adaptations of Moliere's The Doctor in Spite of Himself, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the Greek Myth Antigone, James Barrie's Peter Pan, and Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Regional performances: Martin Dart in The Receptionist; Miles/Lady Romola/Valentino in Act a Lady; the Cook in Mother Courage; Howie in Rabbit Hole; The Historical Event in How I Got That Story; The Photographer in At the Vanishing Point; Martin in The Goat; Orson Welles in Orson's Shadow; Richard Nixon in Nixon's Nixon; Mark Antony in Julius Caesar; and many years of dance performances with choreographer Killian Manning.

Alan Riley Jones (Music Director) is a veteran of nineteen Durham Savoyards productions. The Gondoliers marks his seventh partnership as Music Director with Derrick Ivey as Director. Holding Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from East Carolina University, Alan has appeared in numerous Triangle area productions, most often as singer and actor, occasionally as composer and playwright. Longtime Savoyards fans may remember Alan as Counsel for the Plaintiff (Trial By Jury, 1984), Scaphio (Utopia, UnLimited, 1997), Lord Chancellor (Iolanthe, 1998), Major-General Stanley (The Pirates of Penzance, 1999), and J. W. Wells (The Sorcerer, 2001). His many non-G&S roles include Tito in Lend Me a Tenor, Captain von Trapp in The Sound of Music, Falstaff in Verdi's Falstaff, Burl in Smoke On the Mountain, and Narrator/Mysterious Man in Into the Woods. Original works include the musical play Ladri Waits, a new score for Gilbert's libretto Thespis (recently recorded by the Durham Savoyards), and choral compositions and arrangements for the Oakwood Waits vocal ensemble, of which he is a longtime member. Alan has performed his own original setting of Gilbert's Bab Ballad "Lorenzo de Lardy" at several Savoyards' concerts.