H.M.S. Pinafore 2015
July 11, 12 2015
This year marked the twentieth anniversary of The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company and the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra’s collaboration, presenting Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas in concert at the Lake Harriet Bandshell since 1995.
This year’s concert presentation of H.M.S. Pinafore was unique in that it featured the swing version of “Fair Moon to Thee I Sing,” which had been arranged for the company’s spring production of the operetta, which had been set in the 1940s. In the role of Captain Corcoran, Waldyn Benbenek sang the song at the top of Act II, accompanied by a bevy of bubble blowing beauties!
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The cast for this concert production of H.M.S. Pinafore included:
Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. Tom Berg
Captain Corcoran Waldyn Benbenek
Ralph Rackstraw Kai Brewster
Dick Deadeye Will Dierenfield
Bill Bobstay Joe Allen
Bob Becket John Orbison
Josephine Victoria Valencour
Cousin Hebe Amanda Weis
Little Buttercup Lara Trujillo
Women’s Chorus
Mary Mescher Benbenek, Kirsten Bighia, Tanya Brody, Maggie Burton, Marlene Doll, Victoria Erickson, Mary Gregory, Carly Hayes, Shawn Holt, Jennifer Lovitt, Holly MacDonald, Anna Maher, Jo Pasternack, Kara Schrapp, Brianna Sullivan, Rhea Sullivan, Eryn Tvete, Keelin Yenney-Henderson, Sarah Zuber
Men’s Chorus
Jim Brooks, John Byram, Christopher Erickson, Stephen Hage, Keith Luizzi, Eric Pasternack, Aaron Roloff, Roger Shaver, Alexander Stokes, Jason Vogen, Jacob Wellington,
Production Coordinator:
Waldyn Benbenek
Casting:
Waldyn Benbenek, Lesley Hendrickson, Marina Liadova
Rehearsal Accompanist:
Jean Van Heel
“Fair Moon to Thee I Sing” Arrangement:
Mitchell Johnson, Charlie McCarron