On Stage This Weekend - "HMS Pinafore"

This weekend is your last chance to catch a classic production.

EDIT: WRONG WRONG WRONG! Sorry, your old pal Chuck obviously was looking at the wrong calendar. "Pinafore" runs this weekend AND next weekend. Sorry about that!

The Charleston Light Opera Guild begins its 60th anniversary year with HMS Pinafore, the first musical produced by the group in 1949.

Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and Jan. 30-31 and at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25 at the Charleston Light Opera Guild Theatre at 411 Tennessee Avenue on the west side of Charleston.

One of the most loved theatre pieces of the English speaking world, HMS Pinafore was the fourth collaboration of Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan and opened in May 1878 at D'Oyly Carte's Opera Comique where it ran for 571 performances and became a huge fad in England.

HMS Pinafore is fully costumed and staged with an orchestra.

Box office hours are Friday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. Tickets can be ordered by calling 304-342-9312. All tickets are $15 for festival seating.