when I was a child growing up in New Mexico we used to go see the summer touring team from D'oyle Cart Opera of England perform G&S at the amazingly restored and gorgeous opera house in Central City in Colorado. It was a long vacation family trip. We would see two days worth of G&S then travel on to Aspen Colorado for two days of the Music Festival and then on to Crater Lake for a couple of days of hiking and camping.

Both the SAG guy and I are very familiar with many of their works and occasionally will break out in song. My favorite production of the Pirates of Penzance was the tv production with Kevin Klein as the Pirate King and Olivia Newton John as the Admirals daughter. That and the dickie bird song from the Mikado.

Fond memories.