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Reviewed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, San Francisco on 19 August 2016
Sullivan, The Mikado (Reimagined in Renaissance Italy)
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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