Tarantara! Tarantara!

Visy Theatre

Brisbane Powerhouse

28 November - 9 December

Directors: Brian & Denise Cahill

It tells the story of the famous Gilbert & Sullivan partnership; the meeting, the association with D’Oyly Carte, the mounting success, the divergences of temperament, the conflicting ambitions and the trouble caused by Gilbert's obsession with his lozenge story.

Sullivan’s lavish social life and its disruptive consequences, his ill-health, the famous tragi-comic quarrel over a new carpet for the theatre—these and many other episodes are covered.

Musical excerpts from the operas are threaded into the story. The entire cast (including Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan) participates in these interludes.