Described as "a musical" approach to fairytale hilarity in Venice, Circa 1750", this splashy, colourful extravaganza involves two gondoliers who rules a Spanish Duchy on the assumption that one is a foundling prince. It's a perfect excuse to poke fun at republicanism and egalitarianism. Eric Donkin plays the campy and comical Duke of Plaza-Toro who has incorporated and sold himself as blue-chip stock; Douglas Chamberlain is in dag as the Duchess; Richard McMillan plays the leering and lecherous Grand Inquisitor, Don Alhambra. John Keane and Paul Massel are Marco and Giuseppe, the fun-loving gondoliers who discover on their wedding day that one of them is the rightful King of Barataria.