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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An Afternoon of Extraordinary Music
to Benefit Artistic Excellence

Verdi Club
2424 Mariposa Street, San Francisco

Number of tickets

Single ticket ($85 + fees) $88.97 USD 2 x Single tickets $177.94 USD 3 x Single tickets $266.91 USD 4 x Single tickets $355.88 USD 5 x Single tickets $444.85 USD Table for 6 with a Lamplighter host ($500 + fees) $518.49 USD Table for 8 with a Lamplighter host ($650 + fees) $673.74 USD

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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

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!

Cast List

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

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

This is the show that swept the awards at the International G&S Festival in Buxton, England – Best Production – Best Overseas Production – Best Director – Best Male Singer – Special Adjudicator’s Award for Costumes

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

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

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.

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.