Name: The McAdo
Start: 2024-11-01T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-01T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Howard Conn Fine Arts Center

The Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company Presents a New Adaption of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado, or The Town of Titipu:
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗰𝗔𝗱𝗼, 𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆𝗱𝗲𝘄
𝗡𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟭 𝘁𝗼 𝟮𝟰, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰
This reimagined version of the show, graciously shared with us by Gilbert & Sullivan Austin, is set in the highlands of Scotland and retitled The McAdo.
Lanky Doug, a strolling minstrel, arrives in the Scottish town of Ballydew, seeking to marry the beautiful Wynn Somme. He learns, however, that Wynn Somme is already engaged to Coco, a cheap tailor, who has been unexpectedly raised the rank of Lord High Executioner. Heartbroken, Lanky Doug contemplates suicide. In the meantime, Coco is unable to find someone to execute, as he must do, before the arrival of the clan Laird, The McAdo. Coco hits on a plan that will solve both of their problems. He will offer Lanky Doug a month of marriage to Wynn Somme if Lanky Doug allows Coco to execute him at the end of that month. What Coco doesn’t realize is that Lanky Doug is the son of The McAdo and has run away to avoid marriage to the bloodthirsty Katie Shaw. The arrival of The McAdo complicates matters, but ultimately brings the story to a delightful, satisfying conclusion.
Learn more about this delightful new production and our two talented casts here: https://gsvloc.org/on-stage/