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Utopia, Limited

The Pittsburgh Savoyards continue their 88th season this fall with Gilbert and Sullivan’s penultimate operetta, Utopia, Limited.
Theater
Carnegie Free Library of Carnegie 300 Beechwood Ave Carnegie
All Ages $25 / $25

Gilbert & Sullivan’s Utopia, Limited is a delightfully absurd operetta in which a small island decides their surest path to greatness is to copy Victorian England—down to the last legal loophole and layer of red tape. The island’s ruler calls in a troupe of overconfident British “experts” to transform their traditional island into a model of modern civilization, complete with companies, contracts, and comically complicated rules. Of course, the results are ridiculous: tradition collides with bureaucracy, common sense disappears under paperwork, and the dream of progress spins wildly out of control. With playful satire, larger-than-life characters, and music that bubbles with mischief, Utopia, Limited turns modernization into a hilarious spectacle and proves that trying to be “perfectly proper” can be perfectly disastrous.

Utopia, Limited is Gilbert & Sullivan’s thirteenth composition as a duo and originally premiered in October of 1893. Unlike their previous compositions, it was not considered a success in its time and was rarely revived professionally. In modern times, however, it has been rediscovered and celebrated by a devoted fanbase as a hidden gem of the canon.

Performance dates and times are as follows:

Friday, October 10 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 11 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, October 12 at 2:30 pm
Friday, October 17 at 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 18 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, October 19 at 2:30 pm

Related Entities: Carnegie Free Library of Carnegie