Where professionals do community theater
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Although the Savoyaires are a community theater group, the company draws its artistic staff and much of its casts from the ranks of Chicago-area theater and music professionals. Performers who have played leading roles in recent Savoyaires productions have also been seen on stage with professional companies throughout the Chicago area and beyond.
Recent stage directors have included two-time Jeff Award winner Dominic Missimi, director of three dozen productions at Marriott Theater in Lincolnshire; Amy Uhl, a member of the directing team for the Broadway musical Amazing Grace; two-time Jeff winner Terry McCabe, longtime artistic director of City Lit Theater; multiple Jeff nominee Elizabeth Margolius, who has directed for Bailiwick, Folks Operetta, and Drury Lane Oakbrook; Martha Adrienne, who has directed for City Lit, Bowen Park Playhouse, and Canterbury Summer Theater; and Jeff winner Walter Stearns, executive director of the Mercury Theater and director of productions for Porchlight, Theo Ubique, and Music Theater Works. Since 2018, Savoyaires productions have been directed by Kingsley Day (hailed by critic Colin Douglas in Chicago Theatre Review as “the Savoyaires’ talented artist of all seasons” and a “master of the G&S operetta”), who played all 14 patter baritone leads with the company and has appeared with Blank Theatre, Pride Arts, City Lit, Metropolis, Theatre Above the Law, Folks Operetta, and Light Opera Works. |
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Live-performance DVDs are available for the following:
Thespis (2004) The Sorcerer (2005) The Gondoliers (2010) Eyes and No Eyes and The Zoo and Trial by Jury (2011) Patience (2012) The Mikado (2013) The Grand Duke (2014) H.M.S. Pinafore (2015) Thespis (2016) Pirates of Penzance (2017) Ruddigore (2018) Yeomen of the Guard (2019) Six Characters in Search of Gilbert & Sullivan and Trial by Jury (2022) To order, go to our STORE |
Past Presidents of the Board of Directors:
1967–70 Ed Thurman 1971–73 David Stockwell 1974–75 William Yowell 1976–77 Rosemary Wells 1978 John Shea 1979 Rosemary Wells 1980–81 Hughes Hopewell 1982–83 James Brandt 1984–85 David Stockwell 1986 James Brandt 1987 Gloria Hopewell 1988 Jan Kraft, Julia McDowell, John Shea 1989–90 Philip Hale 1991 Mary Spaeth 1992–93 Arthur Salzman 1994 Mary Spaeth 1995–96 David Craven 1997–99 Gloria Boyell 2000–02 Kingsley Day 2003–04 Larry Geni 2005–06 Brian Treglown 2007–08 Tom Campbell 2009–10 Joshua Sachs 2011–12 Christopher Panek 2013–14 Michael Perlman 2015–16 Kathy Szoke 2017–18 David Banasiak 2019–20 Michael Perlman 2021-22 Kingsley Day 2023-24 Christopher Panek 2024-25 Kathy Szoke |
