‘Schoolhouse Opera’

Restored piano leads to new performances

Readers Theatre Plus and the Peninsula Singers bring Gilbert and Sullivan center stage in July for a series of benefit concerts at the Museum & Arts Center’s historical Dungeness Schoolhouse, 2781 Towne Road in Sequim.

 

Under the helm of music director Dewey Ehling and stage manager Carol Swarbrick Dries, with piano accompaniment by Pat Marcy, a cast of 18 performs Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera “Yeomen of the Guard” at 7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, July 6-7 and July 13-14, and at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 8 and July 15.

Tickets are $15 per person, or two for $25 if purchased in advance at Pacific Mist Books, 121 W. Washington St. in Sequim, or Odyssey Bookshop, 114 W. Front St. in Port Angeles.

 

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This first summer production of "Yeomen" is also the public debut of the MAC’s fully refurbished Chickering-built 1929 Brewster Grand piano. The piano restoration, spearheaded by Dungeness Schoolhouse Volunteer Committee member Anne Wells and former schoolhouse manager John Majors, was funded by an $11,000 grant from the Mary P. Dolciani Halloran Foundation and completed by Paul M. Creech Pianos of Sequim in mid-June. 

 

Proceeds from “Yeomen of the Guard” benefit Readers Theatre Plus, Peninsula Singers, and the MAC. Readers Theatre Plus also will conduct a silent auction, the theatrical troupe’s primary annual fundraiser, in conjunction with the production.

 

For more information about the benefit concert, visit the MAC website at www.macsequim.org.