A Little Night MusicStephen Sondheim (Music & Lyrics); Hugh Wheeler (Book)Lamplighters Music Theatre Amy Bouchard, Jonathan Smucker, Elana Cowen & Chris UzelacSwaying and circling, circling and swaying, a quintet sings in a lush blend of harmonies snippets of fuller songs soon to come while also providing us metaphors in movement and in words of the on-again, off-again … [Read more...] about “A Little Night Music”
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“The Gondoliers, or The King of Barataria”
The Gondoliers or, The King of BaratariaWilliam S. Gilbert (Lyrics); Arthur Sullivan (Music)Lamplighters Music TheatreMichael Desnoyers & Samuel RabinowitzAs the orchestra’s “Overture” spreads notes that prance in joyful processions up and down hills and valleys of light-hearted scales, toes tap and heads nod with the beat. Beaming smiles throughout the audience … [Read more...] about “The Gondoliers, or The King of Barataria”
“Patience”
PatienceWilliam S. Gilbert (Libretto) & Arthur Sullivan (Music)Lamplighters Music TheatreJennifer Mitchell & F. Lawrence EwingThose master geniuses of satire, rhyming lyrics, and operatic melodies -- William S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan – primed their pens and aimed their alliterative arrows at a target too conceited and flamboyant for them to ignore in the 1880s of … [Read more...] about “Patience”
“The Grand Duke, or The Statutory Duel”
“The Grand Duke, or The Statutory Duel”William S. Gilbert (Lyrics) and Arthur Sullivan (Music)Lamplighters Musical TheatreLittle wonder that Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Grand Duke, or the Statutory Duel has been rarely produced since its premiere in 1896 at the Savory Opera. This final and least successful collaboration by the famed duo pushes three hours in length; has an … [Read more...] about “The Grand Duke, or The Statutory Duel”
“Candide”
CandideMusic, Leonard BernsteinBook Adapted from Voltaire by Hugh Wheeler in New Version by John CairdLyrics by Richard Wilbur (& Sondheim, Latouche, Hellman, Parker & Bernstein)Lamplighters Music TheatreAfter being worked and re-worked for 33 years with many collaborators coming and going (and some now dead) and with some 97 total musical numbers/revisions having been … [Read more...] about “Candide”
