For its current offering, "Princess Ida," the guest is Frank Gorshin, as King Gama.
Beginning on Jan. 6 the company will present 10 performances of "Princess Ida," with Frank Gorshin as the cantankerous King Gama.
In "Princess Ida," John Rubinstein's King Gama promised much.
In 1976, he performed the role of King Gama in Princess Ida for the Dunedin Gilbert and Sullivan Company's 25th anniversary production.
King Gama (comic baritone)
Princess Ida, King Gama's Daughter (soprano)
Her father, King Gama, arrives with a message that Hildebrand prefers not to go to war against women.
Hilarion, Cyril, and Florian are still in their women's robes, and King Gama and his sons ridicule them.
"Whene'er I spoke" (King Gama with Chorus of Girls)
After a brief retirement, he returned to play King Gama in a 1905 revival of Princess Ida.