Gayden Wren's "Gilbert & Sullivan and Me" is to receive its Long Island premiere a benefit for the Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island. The show will be presented on October 20 at 7 p.m., at Westie Self Storage in New Hyde Park.
The program is a one-man show drawn from Wren's 43 years as a member of the Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island, and features a variety of songs related to but not exactly from the Savoy operas. Among the contents: song parodies, tunes by Arthur Sullivan with other lyricists and one of only three Gilbert & Sullivan songs not written for performance in an opera.
Wren is best known to Gilbert & Sullivan fans as the author of "A Most Ingenious Paradox: The Art of Gilbert & Sullivan" (Oxford University Press, 2001) and the upcoming "Only in Theatrical Performances: Reading 'The Mikado.'" The show was seen in Rochester, N.Y., in 2007 and in Austin, Texas, in 2016; this will be its New York debut.
