Our founder, Bob Cumming, began work on his folk-tale opera Rumpelstiltskin in his senior year at Lincoln (Nebraska) High School and finished it while a student at Nebraska Wesleyan University. It was first performed in 1952 at First Plymouth Congretational Church in Lincoln as a benefit for their youth league with soloists from the church choir and his friends. Later it had many successful performances in New York City and several New England towns.

    In 1993, CG&SS revived it for four performances at the old Middletown High School on November 5-7, with orchestral arrangements by John Dreslin. Leighton Phraner played the demanding title role of the magical dwarf while hunched over with his knees almost touching the floor.

Rumplestiltskin Videos

Rumplestiltskin Cast

Artistic Director/Conductor:  Bob Cumming
Associate Director: Lucy J. Weed
Orchestrations: John Dreslin