The search is on for new shipmates to join Sasha Regan’s award-winning all-male company when they sail into Wilton’s Music Hall this spring with a new version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic masterpiece H.M.S Pinafore.
Following on from the recent live theatre and streaming success of Regan’s critically-acclaimed re-imagining of another G&S favourite, The Pirates of Penzance, the company is on the lookout for new additions to the diverse crew which will dock at the East London venue from 16 March until 9 April 2022.
Professionally trained musical theatre and/or opera performers from diverse backgrounds have until noon on 21 January to post their performance of a musical theatre or operatic song on Twitter with the following tags: @allmalehms @AdamBraham or #SingForASailor.
The process is open to male, male-identifying, and non-binary artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. The company is looking for strong vocalists and is especially hoping to find some strong falsettos to join the production.
Anyone not feeling comfortable with posting online can email the show’s casting director on a.brahamcasting@gmail.com. Hopefuls who catch the eye of the production team will be invited to audition for the production.
Produced by Regan De Wynter Williams Ltd, the production is directed by Regan and choreographed by Lizzi Gee with design by Ryan Dawson-Light, lighting design by Ben Bull, casting by Adam Braham Casting, marketing and public relations by Fiona Lockley and graphic design by Spiff.
Set in the hold of a Second World War ship, Regan’s re-imagining of one of librettist W.S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan’s most enduringly popular works features a cast of 16 players who switch between burly sailors, in the working underbelly of the vessel, to lady visitors.
A comic opera in two acts, H.M.S Pinafore or The Lass That Loved a Sailor was first seen at Opera Comique in London in 1878. Gilbert and Sullivan’s fourth operatic work became their first international success.
Angela Thomas
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