“Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest ”

With 27-piece orchestra!

Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan

Libretto by Sir W.S. Gilbert

August 16–24, 2008
At Cahn Auditorium - 600 Emerson, Evanston, IL

It's a band of woodland fairies versus Britain's House of Lords...and the government is never the same! Justly hailed as the Gilbert & Sullivan connoisseur's favorite, this magical operetta mixes romance, satire and fantasy in a joyous romp that will charm you with its own special brand of mid-summer madness!

It's the funniest and most melodic of all the team's shows- and boasts their most fiendishly difficult show-stopping patter number, The Nightmare Song.

Recommended for ages 8 and older.

Jessye Wright, the radiant Manon in Bitter Sweet last year, is the fairy Iolanthe, banished from Fairyland for marrying a mortal!

Alicia Berneche, star of Bitter Sweet, is Phyllis- in love with Iolanthe's half-fairy, half-mortal son.