Tarantara! Tarantara! is a musical play about the professional journeys of William Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, and Richard D’Oyly Carte. It looks at their rise to fame, their operatic successes and failures, their fractious relationships with each other, and the eventual demise of their partnership. The play is a delight, and The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of SA’s production of it is a joyous experience that leaves you with tuneful patter on your lips and a satisfied smile on your face long after you leave the theatre. You don’t have to be an operetta fan, or a G&S tragic, to enjoy Tarantara! Tarantara!, but it helps. Gilbert and Sullivan wrote fourteen operettas together – libretti by Gilbert, music by Sullivan, and production by D’Oyly Carte – and Tarantara! Tarantara! features song excerpts from many of them.
Performed at Benalla Town Hall.
Benalla Theatre Company 