Santa Clara Univ’s Center of Performing Arts to Help Japanese Earthquake

Santa Clara University's Center of Performing Arts (CPA) will present Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado and will donate a portion of the ticket proceeds to Japan's earthquake and tsunami relief efforts. All ticket sales from the 2 p.m. performance on Saturday, April 16 and $2 of every ticket sold to all other performances will be donated to the American Red Cross.

With more than 11,000 people dead and more than 16,000 still missing, Japan needs help more than ever.

"This is the chance to change the lives devastated by this tragic event," says Butch Coyne, CPA director. "As a university that's committed to engagement in social justice and enriching lives globally, the Center of Performing Arts hopes this donation will show that we are thinking about the victims during this difficult time."

Based in Japan, The Mikado is a musical comedy that revolves around the forbidden love of Nanki-Poo and already engaged Yum-YuM. Gilbert and Sullivan take the audience through a delightfully satirical, silly, and surprising course of events that will leave you laughing and singing in your seat.

Performances for The Mikado will be held on April 15 at 8 p.m., April 16 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., and April 17 at 2 p.m. at the Mayer Theatre at SCU. To buy tickets or for more information, please call 408-554-4015 or visit our website.

About Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University is a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California's Silicon Valley. Santa Clara offers its more than 8,800 students rigorous undergraduate programs in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's degrees in a number of professionAl Fields, law degrees, and engineering and theology doctorates. Distinguished by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. master's universities, Santa Clara educates leaders of competence, conscience, and compassion grounded in faith-inspired values. Founded in 1851, Santa Clara is California's oldest operating institution of higher education. For more information, see www.scu.edu.