Lamplighters Music Theatre will produce Gilbert & Sullivan's Ruddygore this winter, a comic masterpiece that melds the world of Jane Austen with a good old-fashioned English ghost story and a dash of Wuthering Heights romance.
Topical humor has a short shelf life and a spoof of British foibles 130 years ago can be seen as racially offensive today.
It has been confirmed that June Winters, widow of legendary songwriter and record producer Hugo Peretti, and famous in her own right as the "Lady in Blue" on both radio and records, died March 29 of natural causes at her home in Bergenfield, NJ.
The rarely staged G & S collaboration The Gondoliers will be the final production of The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' milestone 40th Anniversary Season --- playing a limited engagement May 15th - 17th at NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts (566 LaGuardia Place). Produced by America's preeminent professional Gilbert & Sullivan repertory company (NYGASP) , the production will feature a full cast and 28 piece orchestra.
In 1874, W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan wrote their first of 14 comedic operas together. As a duo Gilbert and Sullivan enjoyed early success with their notable operas H.M.S. PINFORE and THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE. Moreover, modern musical theatre traces its roots to this influential theatre duo. Therefore, it is no surprise that the comedic operas penned by Gilbert and Sullivan still delight and enthrall audiences all these years later. The Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Houston was founded by a handful of Gilbert and Sullivan aficionadas in 1952. Their inaugural summer performance was THE GONDOLIERS. This summer, they are producing a charming and enchanting production of Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. PINAFORE.
Glasgow is set to be haunted by not one Phantom but three as the Theatre Royal will play host to what has become the most exciting concert phenomenon to tour the UK in recent years!
Glasgow is set to be haunted by not one Phantom but three as the Theatre Royal will play host to what has become the most exciting concert phenomenon to tour the UK in recent years!
Marking a triumphant return from a ten year absence, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company bursts back onto the stage with an historic collaboration with Scottish Opera; taking an all-singing, all-dancing, richly theatrical production of The Pirates of Penzance on an extended, major UK tour following its premiere at Theatre Royal Glasgow tonight 15th May 2013.
D'Oyly Carte Opera Company will make a triumphant return to the stage after a 10 year absence with an historic collaboration with Scottish Opera on Gilbert and Sullivan's best loved operetta The Pirates of Penzance.
Marking a triumphant return from a ten year absence, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company bursts back onto the stage with an historic collaboration with Scottish Opera; taking an all-singing, all-dancing, richly theatrical production of The Pirates of Penzance on an extended, major UK tour following its premiere at Theatre Royal Glasgow on the 15th May 2013.
Marking a triumphant return from a ten year absence, D'Oyly Carte Opera Company bursts back onto the stage with an historic collaboration with Scottish Opera; taking an all-singing, all-dancing, richly theatrical production of The Pirates of Penzance on an extended, major UK tour following its premiere at Theatre Royal Glasgow on the 15th May 2013.
Terrace Plaza Playhouse presents PIRATES OF PENZANCE, August 10 - September 15, 2012, every Friday, Saturday and Monday evening at 7:30 PM.
Terrace Plaza Playhouse presents PIRATES OF PENZANCE, August 10 - September 15, 2012, every Friday, Saturday and Monday evening at 7:30 PM.
The Kansas City Irish Center and Lyric Opera of Kansas City previously announced a collaborative benefit concert to support both organizations. 'An Evening with Alfie Boe' will feature the acclaimed British tenor on the final stop of his first tour of the United States, 7 p.m. tonight, May 6 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.
The New Actors Company in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre presents THE GRAND DUKE. The Finborough Theatre's 'Celebrating British Music Theatre' series continues with the first fully staged professional UK production of Gilbert and Sullivan's final operetta, The Grand Duke, since the original 1896 production. It opens at the Finborough Theatre for a strictly limited run of six Sundays and Mondays from Sunday, 1 April 2012.
The Kansas City Irish Center and Lyric Opera of Kansas City today announced a collaborative benefit concert to support both organizations.
John Reed, best known for his work on numerous Gilbert and Sullivan productions, died at the age of 94 on February 13th, his 94th birthday. Reed was known for his stage work and was specifically noted for being one of the best at handling the Gilbert and Sullivan patter song.
History tells us that London was caught up in some sort of Japanese fervor in 1885 when Gilbert and Sullivan debuted their newest comic opera, The Mikado or The Town of Titipu at the Savoy Theatre. And now, 124 years later, Nashville theatre-goers may find themselves in a similar state, thanks to a superior production of the entertaining work, which bows as the first show in the 20th anniversary season from ACT 1, one of Tennessee's best community theatre groups.
The Pirates of Penzance sails into the Drury Lane Oakbrook Theater.
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