Lamplighter's 'HMS Pinafore' Sails into Bay Area, August

The Bay Area's Lamplighters Music Theatre opens its 55th season with "hilarity on the high-seas" in Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore.  Lamplighters Artistic Director Barbara Heroux directs with guest conductor George Thomson.

"As timely as today's headlines with its mockery of incompetence in high political places, this side-splitting operatic send-up of snobbery and social class sets sail with a lowly seaman in love with his Captain's daughter, who in turn is pledged by her father to a higher-ranking officer," states press note, "In faithful Gilbert and Sullivan fashion, mayhem prevails, as does true love in this ship-shape satire featuring a live orchestra and the phenomenal voices of the Lamplighters company."

Performance schedule is as follows:

Walnut Creek
Opens Thursday, August 2 at 8PM
Performances Friday August 3 at 8PM; and Saturday August 4 at 2 & 8PM
Dean Lesher Regional Center for the Arts
1601 Civic Drive (at Locust)
Tickets ($13-&$46) call 925-943-7469

Napa Valley
Performances Saturday August 11 at 8PM; and Sunday August 12 at 2PM
Napa Valley Opera House
1030 Main Street, Napa
Tickets ($35-$40) call 707-226-7372

San Francisco
Opens Friday August 17 at 8PM
Performances Saturday August 18 at 2 & 8PM; and Sunday August 19 at 2PM
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St (at Third)
Tickets ($11-$44) call 415-978-2787

For information or to purchase tickets online visit www.lamplighters.org.