History Theatre / TheSorcerer

* FunetikAksent: A chorus of country bumpkins is helpfully indicated this way. "Eh, but oi du loike you!" Then they affect TheQueensEnglish when they're a little more wakeful.

* HesitantSacrifice: Wells explains to the community that at either he or Alexis must die, followed by "I would rather it were you."

* DesignatedVillain: John Wellington Wells is designated as the villain InUniverse. When Wells says that the only way for his spell to be reversed is for either himself or Alexis to sacrifice his life, Alexis, whose fault it all is, volunteers -- but Aline protests, so the villagers vote on who should die and unanimously choose Mr. Wells. Justified because Alexis is a parody of the [[TenorBoy stock romantic lead]] and therefore the DesignatedHero.

* EveryoneMustBePaired: Everyone's paired off at the end; the pairings are supposedly the ones that existed before the love potion caused everyone to pair up randomly, but they were too shy to admit to them before.

* FunetikAksent: A chorus of country bumpkins is helpfully indicated this way. "Eh, but oi du loike you!"

Absolutely nothing to do with the high-profile action flop ''Film/{{Sorcerer}}''. Though the {{Crossover}} possibilities are certainly amusing.

* TheVicar: Dr. Daly. Despite the rather gentle treatment he gets, Gilbert was nonetheless criticized for mocking the Church.

* PairTheSpares: Everyone's paired off at the end; the pairings are supposedly the ones that existed before the love potion caused everyone to pair up randomly, but they were too shy to admit to them before.

The plot concerns a village in which everyone is dosed with a LovePotion by a sorcerer, with, naturally, [[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensuing]].

* SomeoneHasToDie: Because the love potion is a product of dark magic, its effect can only be ended by if either Wells (who concocted it) or Alexis (who put him up to it) agrees to be DraggedOffToHell.

** "Love feeds on many kinds of food" is Alexis' first solo, and introduces his world-view that drives the plot.
** "My name is John Wellington Wells / Dealer in magic and spells"

* AdaptationExpansion: ''The Sorcerer'' started life as a short story. In which the love potion is never reversed. The names are different, but, using the names from the opera to keep it simple: Aline tastes the potion, falls in love with Dr. Daly. Alexis is upset about this -- so far, pretty much as in the opera. However, the potion can't be reversed, so Alexis gets bought off with a valuable living (basically, a guaranteed income), and the story ends with Aline praising Alexis' wonderful love potion idea.

* DesignatedVillain: John Wellington Wells is designated as the villain InUniverse. When Wells says that the only way for his spell to be reversed is for either himself or Alexis to sacrifice his life, Alexis, whose fault it all is, volunteers -- but Aline protests, so the villagers vote on who should die and unanimously choose Mr. Wells. Justified because Alexis is a parody of the [[TenorBoy stock romantic hero]] and therefore the DesignatedHero.

* LovePotion: Alexis, believing that has the power to erase social differences and create a harmonious society, hires Wells to dose everyone in the village with a potion that makes them fall in love with the first person of the opposite sex they see. (Married people are exempted.) HilarityEnsues.

* CutSong:
** Act I has a rather bizarre cut: Lady Sangazure has a recitative that, unlike practically every other piece in Western music, fails to resolve to the tonic at the end, instead setting up an unused key change. This is because it was originally meant to transition into a cut song, and the recitative was neither revised or cut when the following song was.
** "Happy are we in our loving frivolity" was the original opening to Act II. It was replaced with a much more complicated opening in the revival, in order to give a little more spectacle. It's occasionally added later in Act II.