UMGASS Presents: Ruddigore, a comic operaIn the town of Rederring, Cornwall, a chorus of professional bridesmaids laments the fact that there have been no weddings for the last six months because every available young man is in love with Rose, but all are too timid to approach her and she is too proper to ask them. Rose loves Robin, but feels it wouldn’t be proper etiquette to tell him; Robin loves Rose, but is too scared to tell her. Their romance (or lack thereof) is derailed when it is revealed that Robin is actually Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd, one of the bad baronets of Ruddigore. The bad baronets are cursed to do one crime every day or perish in agony; a task that Robin proves to be ill-suited for. After a visit from his ghostly relatives, he resolves to abduct a lady – but she turns out to be more than he’d bargained for. Realizing he is not cut out for a life of crime, Robin decides to defy the curse, and since refusing is “tantamount to suicide” and suicide is a crime, he realizes he curse no longer applies and he can now live a normal life. Robin and Rose are reunited and the bridesmaids finally get their wedding.