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Not everything in Gilbert and Sullivan's Utopia, Limited came true in the decade that is now coming to an end.

When Cole Porter's "Out of This World" premiered in 1950, the critics could not help crying down its value because it did not compare with his 1948 "Kiss Me Kate." So when Gilbert & Sullivan's "Ruddygore, or The Witch's Curse" opened in 1887, boos were heard for the first time in their career, mostly because it could not top "The Mikado" of 1885.

William Schwenck Gilbert, one half of the successful Gilbert and Sullivan duo, had a knack for satire and an eye for staging, producing comic operettas beloved to this day, including "The Pirates of Penzance" and "The Mikado." Gilbert coped with a difficult childhood with disagreeable parents and surmounted a period of indecision before launching ...

Productions of The Rocky Horror Show are as bound by tradition as are D'Oyly Carte productions of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.

Welcome to this weekend's installment of my ongoing series of articles about the Broadway Musical.

East meets West: Dorothy Atkinson, Shirley Henderson and Cathy Sara in 'Topsy-Turvy', Mike Leigh's 1999 biographical treatment of Gilbert and Sullivan I can still remember my first encounter with the genius of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Arthur Sullivan and William S. Gilbert reunited after one of their quarrels by Richard D'Oyly Carte Summer Music West is the summer "semester" for the Preparatory Division of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.