The Sudbury Savoyards: Ruddigore

Presented by The Sudbury Savoyards, audiences can "expect the unexpected" in this typical Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. As TV's "Dallas" was about the Ewing family, "Ruddigore" is about the accursed Murgatroyd family: anyone who succeeds to the title of Baron must commit a crime every day or perish in agony. But, as one critic noted, the moral absolutes of melodrama are turned topsy-turvy: Good become Bad, Bad becomes Good, and Heroes take the easy way out.