Event Title:

Organization:

  Performing Arts

  San Jose

Start Date:

  8/8/2026

End Date:

  8/16/2026

Start Time:

  7:30 PM

End Time:

  4:00 PM

Event Info: 

  Aug 8 at 730PM Aug 9 at 2PM August 15 at 2PM: Aug 16 at 2PM

LYRIC THEATRE, in our 56th year of high quality live musical theater productions, offers a unique production for your enjoyment.

An original topsy-turvy G&S show based on last summer's hit

Three theater companies compete in a Gilbert & Sullivan Festival, but there's a problem: the judge thought this was an opera competition, and she doesn't like Gilbert & Sullivan! The companies band together to show that their performances are worthwhile, no matter whether they are G&S purists, topsy-turvy non-traditionalists, or the unlucky group that disaster befalls every time. Then the judge decides to try to prove that G&S singers are inferior ... !

Come help us celebrate the works of Gilbert & Sullivan and the joy of community theater - of any type - with both love and humor, entertaining those new to G&S and those who know every song by heart!

Story by: Doreen Finkelstein
Written by: Doreen Finkelstein and Cordelia Willis
(Based on "The Great Gilbert & Sullivan Sing-Off" by Doreen Finkelstein, Cordelia Willis, and Ronan Beltracchi)?
Producer: Dan Zulevic
Music Directors: Mike Halloran and Michael Taylor
Stage Direction: Doreen Finkelstein
Costume Designer: Kathleen O'Brien

Discounts available for Groups.

https://www.lyrictheatre.org/the-judge-strikes-back

Location:

  Saratoga Civic Theater

Room:

Address:

  13777 Fruitvale Ave

Phone:

  408-986-1455

City:

  Saratoga

State/Province:

  CA