New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players: Patience

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!