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Patience

Opening Date: Oct 28, 2023
Closing Date: Oct 29, 2023
Running Time: 02:35
Patience

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Playing @
Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College
119 East 68th Street, New York City, NY 10021
Fads come and go, and aesthetic poetry is all the rage of the day, especially among the maidens who have all become groupies of the self-styled poet Reginald Bunthorne—to the dismay of their macho military boyfriends. Only Patience, the virtuous village milkmaid, claims to have never loved anyone. She doesn’t care for poetry much either, and, as it turns out, neither does Bunthorne himself! While Bunthorne is infatuated with Patience, she rejects him and falls for her childhood crush, Archibald Grosvenor, another poet and attractive aesthete. Meanwhile the rigid military men attempt to win back their ladies by comically posing as willowy poets. Exasperated Bunthorne challenges Grosvenor to give up the current aesthetic craze, but when Grosvenor agrees, being common becomes the new celebrity, and the ladies choose their old sweethearts, dooming Bunthorne to celibacy and proving after all, that every generation has its own temporary insanity! Presented by New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players.
Off BroadwayOpera

Performance Schedule

SATURDAY @ 2 PM & 7:30 PM
SUNDAY @ 3 PM


Music
  • Arthur Sullivan

Lyrics
  • W. S. Gilbert

Book
  • W. S. Gilbert

Director
  • Albert Bergeret

Choreography
  • David Auxier

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$35.00 - $130.00

Accessibility

  • Assisted Listening System

    Infrared listening devices are available in the coat-check room.
  • Entrance

    Ramp at the main entrance provides full access to all theatergoers.
  • Telephone

    None on premises
  • Water Fountain

    Lobby level; wheelchair accessible
  • Wheelchair Info

    For wheelchair accommodations, please ask at the Box Office for special Orchestra-level seating.

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