WATCH: Space Coast Symphony Orchestra Performs “Gilbert & Sullivan Unbuttoned” September 19 and 20
By Space Coast Daily // September 18, 2026
Eau Gallie High School will host the Saturday concert, Emerson Center in Vero Beach will host Sunday’s performance
WATCH: The Space Coast Symphony Orchestra will perform two concerts of wonderful music by Gilbert & Sullivan this weekend, September 19 and 20. The first performance will take place on Friday, September 19, 2026, at the Eau Gallie High School Performing Arts Building, 1400 Commodore Boulevard, Melbourne, Florida, starting at 7 p.m. A repeat performance will be held on Sunday, September 20, 2026, at the Emerson Center, 1590 27th Avenue, Vero Beach, Florida, starting at 3 p.m.
BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – The Space Coast Symphony Orchestra will perform two concerts of wonderful music by Gilbert & Sullivan this weekend, September 19 and 20. The first performance will take place on Friday, September 19, 2026, at the Eau Gallie High School Performing Arts Building, 1400 Commodore Boulevard, Melbourne, Florida, starting at 7 p.m.
A repeat performance will be held on Sunday, September 20, 2026, at the Emerson Center, 1590 27th Avenue, Vero Beach, Florida, starting at 3 p.m.
Fast, funny, and brilliantly clever musical theater with a wink and a whirlwind pace.
Gilbert & Sullivan Unbuttoned is a brisk, glittering, and gloriously topsy-turvy entertainment in which pirates parade, maidens flutter, captains bluster, baritones patter at perilous speed, and no one in possession of rank, dignity, or self-importance remains entirely safe for very long. Your Space Coast Symphony Orchestra dashes through a sparkling assortment of favorites from The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance, H.M.S. Pinafore, Patience, Iolanthe, The Yeomen of the Guard, and The Gondoliers, where wit is razor-sharp, melody is endlessly irresistible, and satire arrives dressed in the most charming music imaginable.
Featured guest artists Mary Anne Kruger, Kate Stenzel-Whitworth, Samantha W. Petersen, Sarah Purser, Kit Cleto, Bryan Hayes, Andrew LeJeune and Stephen Mumbert lead a nimble cast of singers who serve as both soloists and chorus, tumbling from the bright sparkle of Three Little Maids from School Are We and the breathless brilliance of I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General to the noble sentiment of He Is an Englishman and the deliciously stealthy menace of With Cat-Like Tread.
As though this cheerful nonsense were not already abundance enough, trumpeter Robert Chambers joins the festivities for Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto in E major, a dazzling showpiece of elegance, agility, and brilliance that slips into the proceedings as neatly as a perfectly tied cravat. Light-footed, sharp-tongued, and unreasonably tuneful, Gilbert & Sullivan Unbuttoned promises an evening of merriment, mischief, and magnificent musical delight.
Tickets are $35 in advance for adults and are available through the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra website (spacecoastsymphony.org), or by calling (855) 252-7276. Tickets can also be purchased in person at any Marine Bank & Trust location. Tickets at the door are $40. All seating is general admission — seats are not assigned.
All SCSO concerts are free for those 18 and under or any college student with a valid student ID. Discounted tickets are available through the Symphony for Everyone program.
Season 18 All Access Pass and Flex Ticket holders: Your pass or flex tickets are valid for this concert and all Season 18 subscription concerts. All Access Pass holders will find their reserved seats waiting. Flex ticket holders do not need to call ahead — simply present your tickets at the door upon arrival.
