The Great Gilbert and Sullivan Sing-Off

Three fictional theater companies are competing in a Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, performing musical numbers drawn from throughout the Gilbert & Sullivan canon.  One company is very traditional in their presentations, while another company is very non-traditional, indulging in things like gender-swapped characters, updated lyrics, and modern references.  The third company is unlucky; somehow or other, everything they try to do goes wrong in some way:  the lead forgets the lyrics, or the supertitles operator goes rogue, or the choreography turns into a train wreck.

 

Tension builds between the three companies throughout the show until the final winner is chosen through an audience vote.

 

Plays August 9 and 10 at the Saratoga Civic Theater.