Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. It's been a while since a Gilbert and Sullivan show has been on Broadway (since ...
The women are dressed in kimonos and have donned black-bunned wigs, while the men have penciled on mustaches in preparation for a performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Mikado.” Yet something is a ...
Gilbert and Sullivan’s quintessentially British operettas have served as an entree into musical theater for generations, delighting audiences with an expanse of comedic antics and irresistible tunes.
Rob Dickman as "Sir Joseph Porter," Kate Masson as "Josephine" and Chris Tsocanos as "Captain Corcoran" sing about a confusing arranged marriage in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore," ...
For Waldyn Benbenek, it all started with a poster he saw stapled to a south Minneapolis telephone pole in the summer of 1979. It offered an invitation to meet in the basement of a home in Minneapolis' ...
Some would say “Iolanthe” is the greatest operetta from the collaboration of William Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan. The show combines all the elements that had characterized their successes, said ...
A Broadway remake of the operetta, starring David Hyde Pierce, moves the plot to the Big Easy, where good times roll, even if some jokes don’t quite land. By Jesse Green The Hypocrites’ blithe ...
Picture John Andrews, a church organist who loved Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera. Add two willing church choirs, a few outsiders and an Episcopal bishop who not only allowed performances to take ...
SAXTONS RIVER -- Will we still remember Lady Gaga in 2131? Will "Mamma Mia!" be a staple of professional and community theater troupes throughout the world? Will audiences still savor the political ...
It is my fervent hope that members of the cast of the company that last Spring gave a series of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in New York were not among the audience at the Martin Beck Theatre last ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, which has been giving New York City the ...
The Hypocrites’ blithe production of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic offers the perfect restorative alternative to holiday drudgery. By Ben Brantley The Hypocrites, a freewheeling Chicago theater ...