It was founded by a group of former and (at the time) current members of the University of Michigan's Gilbert & Sullivan Society.
Over the next few years, the company grew rapidly, with five to six productions a season, usually performed in the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University.
The company also performed at the White House,[1] and its chorus appeared several times with Washington's National Symphony Orchestra.
[4] The President and Executive Director of the National Theatre in Washington, D.C., Donn B. Murphy, directed several productions for the company: Show Boat (1961), Finian's Rainbow (1962), South Pacific (1963), The King and I (1964), Camelot (1965) and West Side Story (1966).
Some productions toured to Baltimore, Richmond, and Norfolk, VA.[5] In April 1985 a reunion of company members was held at the National Theatre.