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Sir Arthur Sullivan's Reunited Trilogy!

Musicologists recently made the alarming discovery that Sir Arthur Sullivan long intended The Zoo, Cox & Box and Trial by Jury to be played as one piece.

A note in Sullivan’s hand was found on the back of a washing bill pressed between the leaves of a conductor's score for Thespis, which was hidden in the false bottom of an old trunk in New York. It describes the anguished road he took with three different librettists to bring his chronicle of London life to the Stage, and his bitter disappointment that gambling debts prevented him from mounting his cherished project. Sir Arthur wrote detailed instructions on how a future production should be handled and left these in his secret will for his American heirs. 

Emboldened by this discovery, the present company has been formed to carry out Sir Arthur’s wishes for a Music Hall/Vaudeville mounting of his trilogy. “Actors Opera” has been touring various G&S shows for the last decade, and has joined forces with the newly-founded “Light Opera of New York,” which has been especially created to fill the void in New York for a professional, not-for-profit, operetta company.

Not incidentally, we are also acting as an umbrella organization so that members of New York’s best Gilbert and Sullivan groups (including Amato Opera, the Blue Hill Troupe, New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, and the Village Light Opera Group) can unite under, well, two banners to perform at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England. 

With this production, we hope that Sir Arthur’s final, great wish has at long last been fulfilled.