The first one I want to mention is one of my all-time, hands-down, no-doubt-about-it favorite shows that I wish someone in Huntington would produce - Gilbert & Sullivan's classic, The Pirates of Penzance.
Here's the basic information, and you can read more about it in this story from the Herald-Dispatch:
The Highlands Light Opera Guild will present musical comedy reminiscent of the wry and wacky humor made famous by Monty Python. The operetta The Pirates of Penzance will be presented by in six performances throughout the region.
The show will open July 24 and 25 in the McNabb Middle School Theatre in Mt. Sterling, then move to the Adkins-Caudill Performance Arts Center in Sandy Hook on July 26 and 27. The final two shows will be July 31 and Aug. 1 in Morehead, at the Duncan Recital Hall within the Baird Music Hall on the Morehead State University campus.
All shows are at 8 p.m. except the Sunday, July 27 performance in Sandy Hook, which will take place at 3 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults and $3 for students and seniors. Children under 12 will be admitted free of charge.
The HLO Box Office number is (606) 783-9464. Tickets also will be available at the door.
The Pirates of Penzance is a story of an unlikely romance, and pirates who are scared of their own shadows, policemen who are scared of pirates, a high ranking military officer with plenty of knowledge but no common sense, very pretty but slightly ditzy young maidens, and the requisite old hag who nearly ruins everything. The music is lively and accessible to all audiences.
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Gilbert and Sullivan. I would audition in a minute. My last G&S role was as "The Usher" in Roxboro Junior High School's production of "Trial by Jury" when dinosaurs ruled the earth. People say, G&S is hard, but look at the kids around here that were raised on Sondheim shows. I'm more partial to "Mikado", "Pinafore", and "Trial by Jury".
I know. I shoulda gone to Yale.
Ha! I can't argue with any of your choices - any of 'em would be a blast! I keep trying to talk my pals at M.U. into tackling G&S, but so far, no luck. One of these days, some local group will get up the gumption...
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