SUNDAY, APRIL 5, 2009 AT 7:00 PM

Main Stage - $38

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The comic operetta “The Mikado” reflected an 1880s craze for all things Japanese. The plot centers on what happens when a fictional Emperor of Japan decrees that flirting is punishable by death.

Directed by renowned British Gilbert and Sullivan specialist Richard Sheldon, this production will include a full chorus and orchestra. Sheldon also heads the cast as the Mikado, for which he has been described as “unusually terrifying but quite hilarious.”

Other favorite characters include Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, and Pooh- Bah, Lord High Everything Else, sure to be “insufferably haughty!”

“The glory of Opera à la Carte has been itsabsolute adherence to the letter as well as the spirit of these works, not as museum fossils but in their authentic, joyous vitality.” (Daily News, Los Angeles) Experience Gilbert and Sullivan’s comedy classic, “The Mikado”!