The Pirates of Penzance 2008

July 18, 20, 2008

While the Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company and the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra present concert versions of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, the Company is often creative with its necessarily limited costuming and use of props.  In this concert version of The Pirates of Penzance, the policemen concealed themselves behind branches that they’d brought on stage for that purpose!

The cast for this concert production of The Pirates of Penzance included:

Major-General Stanley Matt Dolph
The Pirate King
Waldyn Benbenek
Frederick James Ahrens
Samuel
David Eckenrode
Sergeant of Police Christopher Michela
Mabel Sarah Wind
Edith
Raquel Swanson
Kate
Kathryn Larsen
Ruth Sandy Schoenecker

Women’s Chorus

Mary Mescher Benbenek, Marlene Doll, Maureen Eckenrode, Mary Gregory, Lesley Hendrickson, Kathy Hering, Shawn Holt, Mariana LaFleur, Holly MacDonald, Carol Manning, Charlotte Morrison, Jo Pasternack, Lisa Rawlins, Sue Ann Rawlins, Julie Seykora, Ruth Staus, Brianna Sullivan, Rhea Sullivan, Jean Van Heel

Men’s Chorus

Mark Alt, Scott Benson, Brad Bradshaw, Dean Lawrence, Kristofer Lysne, John Orbison, Eric Pasternack, Wendell Peck, Jonathon Proctor, Steve Rawlins, Jim Ryan Scott Sandberg, Scott Strand

Production Coordinators

Waldyn Benbenek and Dean Laurance

Casting

Lesley Hendrickson, Marina Liadova, Waldyn Benenek

Rehearsal Accompanist

Jean Van Heel

Audition Accompanist

Stephen Norquist