North Toronto Players
Appearance
(Redirected from HMS Starship Pinafore : The Next Generation)
The North Toronto Players is a theatre group, founded in 1966 as the St. Timothy Players. Their productions are staged at Papermill Theatre, at historic Todmorden Mills on Pottery Road in East York, Toronto.
Productions
[edit]While they are mostly known for their Gilbert & Sullivan work,[1] the Company also creates their own productions. Among these is H.M.S. Starship Pinafore: The Next Generation, a Star Trek adaptation of two famous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas (HMS Pinafore and Trial by Jury).
In 2016 NTP mounted an original production Chelsea Moor Castle (or, The Contract to Marry) featuring 26 of Arthur Sullivan's tunes and lyrics by director Michael Harms and his wife Barb Scheffler. [2]
References
[edit]- HMS Starship Pinafore : The Next Generation playbill, Feb.-March, 2004 (Toronto).
- ^ Crawford, Trish (3 March 2016). "North Toronto Players do Gilbert and Sullivan for 50 years". Toronto Star. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
- ^ Crawford, Trish (March 3, 2016). "The very model of a modern little theatre". Toronto: Toronto Star. pp. E1, E3.