Welcome to the 1997 production of Yeomen of the Guard

Synopsis

Sergeant Meryll of the Yeomen of the Guard has a daughter, Pheobe, and a son Leonard.
Dame Carruthers is the Tower Housekeeper and has always had a soft spot for Sgt Meryll.
Act One. The scene opens with Phoebe weeping over the imminent death of Colonel Fairfax, a family friend, who has been condemned to death on a trumped-up charge.
Fairfax requests to be married before his execution, so his rascally relations will be cheated out of the inheritance.
Jack Point (a jester), and Elsie (a strolling singer), appear and Elsie is persuaded to marry Fairfax, but is blindfolded.
Phoebe steals the keys for Fairfax's cell from Wilfred Shadbolt, the odious head jailor, by flirting with him and replaces the keys later.
The escaped Fairfax is disguised as Phoebe's brother Leonard (whom nobody has seen) and reveals that the prisoner has escaped. Jack Point despairs because Elsie's husband is still alive.

Act Two. The scene opens with Dame Carruthers and chorus describing the search for Fairfax.
Jack Point promises to teach Shadbolt the tricks of the Jester's trade if he will say that he shot Fairfax.
Fairfax feels trapped by his unknown bride, but he deduces that it must be Elsie, from hearing Meryll, Kate (Dame Carruthers niece) and Dame Carruthers' song.
A shot is heard and Wilfred and Point describe the mythical dispatch of Fairfax.
Point tries to woo Elsie but she falls for Fairfax, still disguised as Leonard. Wilfred catches Phoebe, who reluctantly agrees to marry him, if he keeps the secret of Fairfax's disguise.
Meanwhile, the true Leonard returns and Dame Carruthers silence has to be bought with Sergeant Meryll's hand in marriage.
Elsie is horrified but grief turns to joy as she recognises Fairfax, her husband, as her lover.
Jack Point collapses with grief as everyone rejoices around him.