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Lamplighters' more PC Mikado is no less funny

By Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 21 August 2016
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Reviewed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, San Francisco on 19 August 2016
Programme
Sullivan, The Mikado (Reimagined in Renaissance Italy)
Performers
Lamplighters Music Theater
Baker Peeples, Conductor
Ellen Brooks, Director
Miriam Lewis, Costume Designer
Samuel Rabinowitz, Ko-Ko, Lord High Executioner
Patricia Westley, Yum-Yum
Patrick Hagen, Nanki-Poo, son of Mikado
Anne Hubble, Katisha
Ben Brady, Mikado
Charles Martin, Pooh-Bah, Lord High Everything Else
Michael Orlinsky, Baritone
Michele Schroeder, Mezzo-soprano
Allison Spencer, Soprano
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Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Ilana Walder-Biesanz
Ilana Walder-Biesanz is a product manager for Yahoo, a theatre and opera critic, and a classically trained mezzo-soprano. She explored theater and opera stagings as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge and as a Fulbright Scholar in Germany. She currently writes for Bachtrack, San Francisco Classical Voice, and Stark Insider. Twitter: @ilana_wb.