Subject: Whaaa? *reels*
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Posted on: 2013-05-08 12:52:00 UTC

Ok, ok, sorry. I know Gilbert & Sullivan wasn't a part of everyone else's childhood like it was of mine; same with Shakespeare. I shouldn't assume that everyone automatically knows G & S.

Gilbert & Sullivan were a writer and composer who collaborated famously in the Victorian Era. They wrote amazing operas, among the Iolanthe (which has been performed by the PPC, according to one of Tawaki's missions), Pirates of Penzance, HMS Pinafore, The Mikado, and...hm, what's another well-known one...actually, those may be the best-known ones. They often satirized political figures, and sometimes situations, as well as society and a lot of other things. They were very well-known, and very well-liked, and, actually, still are today, albeit in a rather smaller circle than they had in the Victorian Era (at least, that's what it seems like. If someone wants to prove me wrong, they're quite welcome to).

Basically, I love them. They're a large part of my childhood--my grandmother sings in operas and musicals, including G&S (and My Fair Lady, I got to see that one, it was awesome), and my parents bought some of the music (and my grandmother sent more of the music) and they also bought me a wonderful book called The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan, which is wonderful and has all sorts of notes on their process, the critiques they received, what they were satirizing, and various performance gags. It's a really great book :)

Does that help?

~DF

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