The Mikado (2019)
Production Team
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Stage Director - Dean Sinclair
Musical Director - Rod Mounjed Associate Director & Choreographer - Sarah Pearce Costumier - Sandra Tutt |
Principal Cast
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The Mikado of Japan Tobias Page
Nanki-Poo (His son, disguised) Jareth Norman Ko-Ko (Lord High Executioner of Titipu) Dean Sinclair Pooh-Bah (Lord High Everything Else) Joshua Knight* Pish-Tush (A Noble Lord) Andrew Pennycuick* Yum-Yum (A Ward of Ko-Ko) Anne-Louise Harris* Pitti-Sing (Her sister) Johanna Knoechel (Performs on 28/9 @ 2 & on 5/10, 11/10 & 13/10) / Lesley Braithwaite (Performs on 28/9 @ 7.30 & on 4/10, 6/10 & 12/10) Peep-Bo (Her other sister) Oksana Popova* Katisha (An Elderly Lady of the Mikado's court) Megan Chalmers *Understudies Laura Wachsmann (Yum-Yum)(Performs on 28/9 @ 7.30 & on 11/10) Bridget Wood (Peep-Bo)(Performs on 28/9 @ 7.30 & on 6/10) Anthony Henry Smith (Pooh-Bah)(Performs on 28/9 @ 2 & 7.30) Nick Whiley (Pish-Tush)(Performs on 28/9 @ 7.30 & on 11/10) Dates & Venues2019 Performance Dates & Venues
for North Sydney - Main Season NORTH SYDNEY (with full orchestra) 8 PM Friday, 4 October 8 PM Saturday, 5 October 2 PM Sunday, 6 October 8 PM Friday, 11 October 2 PM Saturday, 12 October 2 PM Sunday, 13 October Smith Auditorium Lyric Theatre: Shore School ---- -SOLD OUT- Monday, 23 September- 7.30pm Show Gordon (Killara Music Club) -SOLD OUT- Saturday, 28 September - 2pm Show Bundanoon Tickets Selling Fast - BOOK NOW - Saturday, 28 September - 7:30pm Show Bundanoon 
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What the Reviewers said about G&S Opera Sydney's "The Mikado"
Weekend Notes Review by Maria/MPG Narratives
Stage Whispers Review by David Spicer
Sydney Arts Guide Review by Lynne Lancaster
Stage Whispers Review by David Spicer
Sydney Arts Guide Review by Lynne Lancaster
Dean Sinclair, Stage Director
This year, Dean takes on a new challenge with G&S Opera Sydney as the Stage Director for our 2018 production of The Ghosts of Ruddigore!
Operetta (G&S in particular) features extensively in Dean’s musical theatre experience. He loves the G&S comedic roles, having played Reginald Bunthorne in Patience, Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore, Ko Ko in The Mikado, The Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore – and most recently The Duke of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers for Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Sydney.
Amongst other roles, Dean has sung Cyril in Princess Ida, Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore, Dr Daly in The Sorcerer, Grosvenor in Patience, Jack Point in The Yeomen of the Guard, & Luiz in The Gondoliers. His further light opera outings have included roles in such musical gems as The Arcadians, Showboat, The Gypsy Baron, and The Count of Luxembourg.
Dean particularly loves singing the beautiful songs of Ivor Novello, Franz Lehar, Jerome Kern, & Noel Coward, many of which he’s rendered in concert performances across Sydney.
Dean is currently President of Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Sydney.
Operetta (G&S in particular) features extensively in Dean’s musical theatre experience. He loves the G&S comedic roles, having played Reginald Bunthorne in Patience, Sir Joseph Porter in HMS Pinafore, Ko Ko in The Mikado, The Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore – and most recently The Duke of Plaza-Toro in The Gondoliers for Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Sydney.
Amongst other roles, Dean has sung Cyril in Princess Ida, Ralph Rackstraw in HMS Pinafore, Dr Daly in The Sorcerer, Grosvenor in Patience, Jack Point in The Yeomen of the Guard, & Luiz in The Gondoliers. His further light opera outings have included roles in such musical gems as The Arcadians, Showboat, The Gypsy Baron, and The Count of Luxembourg.
Dean particularly loves singing the beautiful songs of Ivor Novello, Franz Lehar, Jerome Kern, & Noel Coward, many of which he’s rendered in concert performances across Sydney.
Dean is currently President of Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Sydney.
Rod Mounjed, Musical Director
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Rod has been Musical Directing since 1985, when he first designed the music for the play Cloud Nine at the Seymour Centre. Recent Musical Design in 2002-4 has included The Importance of Being Earnest, A Midsummer Nights Dream (Shakespeare by the Sea). Since 2000 Rod has worked as a conductor with Symphony Australia’s conducting program and has worked interstate with different ensembles and orchestras from each of the major symphony orchestras around Australia, specializing in the works of Stravinsky, Mendelssohn, Grieg and Beethoven.
Rod has worked with the Savoy Arts Company since 1991 (Iolanthe, Princess Ida (twice) Pirates of Penzance, Yeomen of the Guard, HMS Pinafore and The Gondoliers). With Regals Musical Society has conducted Broadway Pirates of Penzance, Pippin, Oklahoma, Chess, Annie, Me & My Girl. His two shows with the Rockdale Musical Society have been Anything Goes and Mame. He has conducted Ruddigore for Rockdale Opera in 2011. For the past three decades he has been the resident Musical Director at Lugar Brae Players and has participated in HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, Pirates of Penzance, South Pacific, Oklahoma, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, Me & My Girl, The Pajama Game, Guys and Dolls, Oliver, Annie Get Your Gun, Sound of Music. He volunteered to help conduct Yeoman of the Guard and Iolanthe for the G & S Singfest (Glen Street Theatre and Zenith Theatre). As a pianist he has recorded for SMP classics, works by Mendelssohn (Songs without Words), Beethoven (Late Piano Sonatas Op.109, 110 & 111), and “An Evening with G & S” for violin and piano. |
Sarah Pearce, Associate Director & Choreographer
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Sarah Pearce will be returning for a second year with us as the Associate Director & Choreography for our 2018 production of The Ghosts of Ruddigore. Sarah was our choreographer last year for The Pirates of Penzance.
Sarah has been dancing and performing since the age of three. Originally from South Australia, she studied dance at many different schools, giving her a vast vocabulary of dance styles and choreographic techniques. She began exploring musical theatre choreography when she was 18 as the assistant choreographer of High School Musical 2 with STAYG25, whilst also performing the role of Martha in the show. After this she took on the role of choreographer for The South Coast Choral and Arts Society’s production of the Wizard Of Oz. In 2015 she moved to Sydney to study a bachelor of music, majoring in music theatre at the Australian Institute of Music. In 2016 she was assistant choreographer for their production of Chicago, whilst also performing the roles of Mary Sunshine and Liz. She will be returning as assistant choreographer to work on their 2017 production of The Pyjama Game. She is excited to be choreographing The Pirates of Penzance for The Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Sydney! |