About the Society

Meeting Information

All regular meetings take
place at 7:30 p.m. at
500 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor
(Between 35th & 36th Streets)
New York City

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Society Officers

Dan Kravetz
President & Editor
of The Palace Peeper

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Frances Yasprica
Corresponding Secretary
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Philip Sternenberg
Treasurer
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Affiliation

We are affiliated with
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society
London, England

News from the Society

THE G&S SOCIETY'S 2024 – 2025 SEASON

We meet at 500 Eighth Avenue, 3rd Floor

Saturday, September 14, 2024
Wednesday, October 16
Friday, November 15
Friday, December 13
Saturday, January 18, 2025
Wednesday, February 12
Saturday, March 15
Wednesday, April 16
Friday, May 16
Saturday, June 14



Upcoming Program

Ruddigore Opens Season of Gilbert & Sullivan Society of New York

Saturday, September 14th, at 7:30pm

The 2024-25 season at the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of New York opens with a concert performance of Ruddigore, a spoof of 19th century melodramas, complete with ghosts, a nobleman in disguise, a virtuous maiden, a sailor, a madwoman and an unusual family curse.

The cast features Samuel Silvers (Robin), Richard Holmes (Despard), Josh LaForce (Richard), Henry Horstmann (Roderic), Natan Zamansky (Old Adam), Alyssa Mener (Rose), Sophia Mortensen (Margaret), Manya Gaver-Holmes (Hannah), and Alice Jeanette Lambert (Zorah). Erica Rome will be at the piano and Daniel Kravetz will conduct. The audience is invited to sing the choruses.

Pearl Studios NYC requires everyone to show identification when entering the building. Masking is optional at G&S Society meetings and other Pearl events. 500 Eighth Avenue, 3rd floor.

No admission charge, but attendees invited to become members; basic dues $40/year.


In Memoriam

• Jesse Shereff, one of the most prominent and influential members of the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of New York, died suddenly on January 2, 2020, at the age of 79. A Society member since 1966, Jess served as President from 1975 to 1978, was Editor of The Palace Peeper for several years in the 1980s and, most recently, held the title of Celestial Drudge. Read our full tribute to Jess.

• In October 2018, our dear friend Andrea Stryker-Rodda passed away. Andi volunteered to play the piano at hundreds of our meetings since the early 1980s and was similarly generous to other Gilbert and Sullivan groups and gatherings over the years. We will miss her deeply.



Palace Peeper Archive

You can access our Palace Peeper newsletter issues from previous years back to 1937! Click here to visit the archive.


Society Performances

Meetings of The G&S Society of New York feature some of the city's finest performances of favorites and lesser-known gems from the canon of Gilbert & Sullivan.

Enjoy some of these past recordings for a taste of what you can find at our ten concert meetings each season.

"Fair Moon to Thee I Sing" (H.M.S. Pinafore), Richard Holmes

"Sorry Her Lot" (H.M.S. Pinafore), Alexis Cregger

"Oh, Is There Not One Maiden Breast" (The Pirates of Penzance), Matt Hughes

"Poor Wand'ring One" (The Pirates of Penzance), Alexis Cregger

"Whom Thou Hast Chained Must Wear His Chain" (Princess Ida), Cameron Smith

"Oh Foolish Fay" (Iolanthe), Hanne Dollase

"The Nightmare Song" (Iolanthe), Samuel Silvers

"As Some Day It May Happen" (The Mikado), David Cantor