The Gondoliers

When two red-hot republican gondoliers learn that one of them is the long-lost king of a Mediterranean island, they soon establish a decidedly egalitarian “people’s monarchy”, but the throne comes with a queen already in place which is bad news for the gondoliers’ new brides. Add an impoverished duke cashing in on his upper-class connections, toss in favourite songs like “Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes”, and you have The Gondoliers, one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s sunniest operettas – brought to life by the creative team behind the Centenary Company’s hit 2006 production of The Mikado.