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The Saturday List: Four Early Steps on the Road to Decolonising Gilbert and Sullivan’s Operettas

Today marks the anniversary of MEMPHIS BOUND!, an often overlooked detour in the diverse highway of musical theatre history. To celebrate the 80th anniversary its Broadway opening, we’re listing four African-American adaptations that took the topsy-turvy world of G&S and turned it inside out and upside down. Continue reading

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Not the Very Model of a Gilbert and Sullivan Fan

Thinking once again about the much revered comic operas of Victorian-era librettist and composer W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan and about why they’ve never become favourites of mine… Continue reading

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