Our 2013-14 Season

Coming up in our 2013-2014 Season:
Iolanthe, Our 48th Annual Champagne Gala & Auction, Die Fledermaus, H.M.S. Pinafore SingAlong

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Hidden Treasures

An Afternoon of Extraordinary Music
to Benefit Artistic Excellence

Verdi Club
2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco

Sunday May 19, 2013 at 4 pm
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Join us for a fun afternoon of special performances, with a delicious high tea including fine wines and treats served by the performers themselves.

At Hidden Treasures, we sit back and relax while members of the Lamplighters Company entertain us with great music from a wide-ranging repertoire, this year including opera, vaudeville, plus an original composition by Robby Stafford (most recently seen as Sir Marmaduke in The Sorcerer). This year, we'll also be honoring our former Artistic Director, the one-and-only Barbara Heroux, and welcoming our new Artistic Director, Rick Williams. Auction items on offer include an Anderson Valley retreat, exclusive French wines, and an autographed photo of Giant's catcher Buster Posey!

Box office revenue covers less than half the cost of bringing wonderful G&S shows to life. Events like Hidden Treasures are absolutely essential to keep our company afloat. We invite you to attend Hidden Treasures and support our treasured artists in the most fun way possible.

To reserve your space and pay directly to the Lamplighters with Visa or Mastercard call 415-227-4797. Checks can be mailed to the Lamplighters at 469 Bryant Street, San Francisco, CA 94107.

Donors to Hidden Treasures




The Lamplighters

Join the Lamplighters as we celebrate our past, present and future.

The festivities will include an original, full-length show based on the works of (and featuring!) Gilbert & Sullivan. Joined by our magnificent orchestra, more than 60 performers will bring back some of our favorite Gilbert & Sullivan tunes and gala numbers from the past (including "This is the very model of a modern general hospital" from our 1983 Gala, Major General Hospital; "Three weird and ugly hags are we" from our 1992 Gala, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern’s Excellent Adventure; and "When the night wind howls and hip-hops" from our 2010 Gala, You Can’t Bite City Hall). We’ll reminisce, we’ll laugh, and maybe we’ll cry a little as we look back at our first 60 fun-filled years and dream about what’s to come in the next 60.

An afternoon guaranteed to be filled with music, true love and laughter! Come early to participate in our silent auction (click the cork to view our item list). Capping off the evening will be a champagne reception with our costumed cast.

Dinner? Join your favorite Lamplighters after the show at our special Anniversary Celebration Dinner upstairs in the Veterans Building Green Room. Fully catered 3-course meal, fine wines and the best company!

CLOSED champagne
  Our 60th Anniversary Gala

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Cast List


The Mikado


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Please click here for the much-requested lyrics
to Ko-Ko's "little list" song

A playful tale set in a make-believe Japanese town where flirting is a capital offence, The Mikado is actually a satire on Victorian British society. Nanki-Poo has fallen in love with the beautiful Yum-Yum, fiancée to the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko. When the Mikado, emperor of Japan, demands the execution of Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo volunteers to take Ko-Ko’s place under the condition that he first be allowed to marry Yum-Yum, chaos, desperation, and comical mayhem ensue.


Reviews of The Mikado


Three little maids
Ko-Ko & Pooh-Bah, Lamplighters' 2008 The Mikado

CAST

Ko-Ko: F. Lawrence Ewing
Pooh-Bah: Robby Stafford
Pish-Tush: John Melis
Mikado: Wm. H. Neil
Nanki-Poo: (double cast)
Michael Desnoyers
Robert Vann
Yum-Yum: (double cast)
Moira McManus
Lindsay Thompson Roush
Katisha: Sonia Gariaeff
Pitti-Sing: Molly Mahoney*
Peep-Bo: Talia Levitan

Chorus of School-girls, Nobles and Guards

Adeliz Araiza, Magnus Asbo*, Amanda Renee Baines*, Simon Banaag, Thalia Berardozzi*, Nicholas Dahlman*, Robert Dorsett, Katherine Feller†, Emily Gladstone-Cole, Buck Greenwald*, Don Hardwick, David Kirby, Rachel Larsen, Eric Levintow*, William Loney, Michael Nurge*, Hallie Randel-Schreiber*, Eric Ratner, A. Christopher Roberts*, Catherine Scanlon*, Leota Tisdel-Rhodes*, Carmello Tringali, Abigail Vass†, Hannah Velichko, Sarah Velichko.

* Lamplighters debut
† Summer Music West Graduates

 

Princess Ida

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This is the show that swept the awards at the International G&S Festival in Buxton, England – Best ProductionBest Overseas ProductionBest DirectorBest Male SingerSpecial Adjudicator’s Award for Costumes

“a remarkable performance… A memorable night”
   (David Turner, Festival Adjudicator)

Prince Hilarion and friends


reviews    photos

  Cross dressing princes and Ida

A 20 year old treaty states that Princess Ida and Prince Hilarion are to marry when they come of age. That time has come, but Ida refuses to honor a commitment made on her behalf when she was an infant, and has gone off to the country to start a women's university. There she teaches an interesting variation on Darwin's theory: that man – not woman, just man – is descended from apes, and is thus inferior to woman. The Prince, on the other hand, is an unabashed romantic, and decides to woo Ida and win her love. He and two friends make their way to the university, where they disguise themselves as women in order to enroll and get close to her…

Cast (listed with dates of double-casting)

(Dates are Tentative / Subject to change)

Princess Ida - Jennifer Ashworth
Princess Ida (understudy) - Alexandra Sessler
Psyche - Rose Frazier
Lady Blanche - Jamie McDonald/ Cary Ann Rosko
Melissa - Molly Mahoney/ Michele Schroeder
Hilarion - David Sasse / Robert Vann
Florian - Chris Uzelac
Cyril - Michael Desnoyers
Cyril (understudy) - Samuel Palmer
King Hildebrand - William Neely / Robby Stafford
King Gama - Rick Williams
Arac - Charles Martin
Guron - Sean Irwin
Scynthius - Jordan Eldredge
Sacharissa - Lizzie Moss/ Maayan Voss de Bettancourt
Ada - Kristen Jones
Chloe - Stephanie Dietz


John Wellington Wells

Cast

Aline - Lindsay Thompson Roush
Constance - Rose Frazier
Lady Sangazure - Megan Stetson
Mrs. Partlet - Kelly Powers
Alexis - Robert Vann
John Wellington Wells - Chris Uzelac
Dr. Daly - Baker Peeples
Sir Marmaduke - Robby Stafford
Notary - James MacIlvaine
Hercules - Jeffrey Beaudoin

Chorus

Magnus Asbo, George Ashworth, Jeffrey Beaudoin,
Glenn D’mello, Peter de Vries, Robert Dorsett,
Laura Ehrlich, Katherine Feller, Chris Focht,
Andrew Gustafson, Susanna Ketron, Tina-Maria Garcia,
Kristen Jones, Jeremiah Lee, William Loney, Lizzie Moss,
Hallie Randel, Caitlyn Riley, Kathy Rosner-Galitz
Carmello Tringali, Maayan Voss de Bettancourt.

The Sorcerer

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When you’re in love you just want to share the joy so young Alexis hires a sorcerer to spike the punch at his engagement party with a love potion. It doesn’t work out so well … except for those of us who love Gilbert’s humor and Sullivan’s melodies! Last presented in 1996, it was high time to bring back the magic of The Sorcerer. This semi-staged Jewel Box production brings the wonderful Lamplighters Orchestra onstage and showcases Melissa Wortman’s gorgeous costumes.

Alexis and Aline

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The Sorcerer ensemble

 

2012 / 13

 

The Mikado
60th Anniversary Champagne Gala & Auction
Princess Ida
The Sorcerer

 

2011 / 12

 

H.M.S. Pinafore
46th Annual Gala: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, Amazing Race Around the World in 79½ Days
The Gondoliers
The Pirates of Penzance
Singalong

 

2010 / 11

 

The Pirates of Penzance
45th Annual Gala: You Can't Bite City Hall
The Yeomen of the Guard
Trial by Jury
with Gilbert's Engaged

 

2009 / 10

 

My Fair Lady
44th Annual Gala: Star Drek - The Generation After That
Patience
The Mikado
Singalong

 

2008 / 09

 

The Mikado
43rd Annual Gala: Mock The Vote
Iolanthe

 

2007 / 08

 

H.M.S. Pinafore
42nd Annual Gala: Harry Patter and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief
The Secret Garden
Gilbert & Sullivan: Straight Up, With a Twist!

 

2006 / 07

 

Ruddygore
41st Annual Gala: Victoria's Secret
The Merry Widow
Carousel

 

2005 / 06

 

The Gondoliers
40th Annual Gala: The Da Vinci Coda
The Pirates of Penzance
H.M.S. Pinafore
Singalong
Showboat in Concert

 

2004 / 05

 

The Mikado
39th Annual Gala: Lord of the Things
The Yeomen of the Guard
Candide
in Concert

 

2003 / 04

 

Iolanthe
38th Annual Gala: How to Succeed in Showbusiness
H.M.S. Pinafore

 

2002 / 03

 

Enter the Guardsman
The Pirates of Penzance
50th birthday bash
Princess Ida

 

2001 / 02

 

The Mikado
36th Annual Gala: Sacre Bleu!
Patience
A Little Night Music

 

2000 / 01

 

With a Song in Our Hearts - A concert of American Operetta Highlights
H.M.S. Pinafore
35th Annual Gala: Greece, the Musical
The Gondoliers

 

1999 / 00

 

My Fair Lady
34th Annual Gala: Apocalypse Later
Ruddygore

 

1998 / 99

 

A Song to Sing, O!
The Pirates of Penzance
33rd Annual Gala: The Sleeping Beauty of Savoy
Of Thee I Sing

 

1997

 

The Mikado
Make-It-Yourself, Sing-It-Yourself The Mikado
Where's Charley?
The Yeomen of the Guard
32nd Annual Gala: Trial by Jury Duty

 

1996

 

Iolanthe
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Sorcerer
31st Annual Gala: Buttercup Gap Revisited

 

1995

 

The Pirates of Penzance
Rosencrantz & Guilderstern's Excellent Adventure
Patience
30th Annual Gala: She Virtually Loves Me

 

1994

 

The Mikado
La Perichole
Princess Ida
29th Annual Gala: Lights, Camera, Murder
H.M.S. Pinafore
Singalong

 

1993

 

Sir Arthur Sullivan's 150th Birthday Concert
H.M.S. Pinafore
Hello Dolly

The Gondoliers
28th Annual Gala: The Phantom of the Operetta, Part Deux

 

1992

 

Iolanthe
My Fair Lady
The Yeomen of the Guard

The Pirates of Penzance Singalong
A Tribute to Sir Arthur Sullivan
27th Annual Gala: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern’s Excellent Adventure

 

1991

 

The Merry Widow
The Pirates of Penzance
Ruddygore

26th Annual Gala: Star Dreck, the Operetta

 

1990

 

The Mikado
Something's Afoot
Patience

25th Annual Gala: Major General Hospital, the Next Generation

 

1989

 

Trial by Jury and H.M.S. Pinafore
Princess Ida
Die Fledermaus

24th Annual Gala: The Ballad of Buttercup Gap

 

more coming soon



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