Saltbox Theatre Collective's production hits Sullivan's notes and lands Gilbert's punchlines.
The genius of this 139-year-old comic opera lies in how gracefully Gilbert
and Sullivan are able to have their cake and eat it too. Sullivan fills the
show with sugar-a surfeit of sweet, innocent, very hummable tunes—and then
Gilbert sprinkles on lots of salt, barbed lyrics that wittily undercut
Sullivan's sentimentality.…
Saltbox Theatre Collective's production hits Sullivan's notes and lands Gilbert's punchlines.
The genius of this 139-year-old comic opera lies in how gracefully Gilbert
and Sullivan are able to have their cake and eat it too. Sullivan fills the
show with sugar-a surfeit of sweet, innocent, very hummable tunes—and then
Gilbert sprinkles on lots of salt, barbed lyrics that wittily undercut
Sullivan's sentimentality.…