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Take a pair of dueling poets, a gaggle of rapturous ladies, a platoon of frustrated Dragoon guards and a feisty, independent milk maid and you end up with the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Patience, presented by Light Opera Theatre of Sacramento. Here, Bunthorne, the aesthetic poet, meets his rival in Archibald Grosvenor, an idyllic poe. Watch the feathers fly. This rarely performed examination of British aestheticism is one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s funniest. 8 p.m. Friday, September 8 and Saturday, September 9; 2 p.m. Sunday, September 10. $15-$20. 24th Street Theatre, 2791 24th Street; (800) 838-2006; www.lots.company.