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Perfectly staged, Lamplighters' Patience stills demands patience

By Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 05 February 2017
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Reviewed at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater, San Francisco on 4 February 2017
Programme
Sullivan, Patience
Performers
Lamplighters Music Theater
David Möschler, Conductor
Barbara Heroux, Director
Miriam Lewis, Costume Designer
Cary Ann Rosko, Lady Angela
Michele Schroeder, Lady Saphir
Rob Cadwallader, Lieut The Duke of Dunstable
Samuel Faustine, Archibald Grosvenor
Ben Porter, Major Murgatroyd
F. Lawrence Ewing, Reginald Bunthorne
Chris Uzelac, Reginald Bunthorne
Charles Martin, Colonel Calverley
Lacey Harms, Lady Ella
Jennifer Mitchell, Patience
Anne Hubble, Lady Jane
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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.