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Some Seven Men Form an Association
[Editor’s Note: The penultimate comic opera produced by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan was titled Utopia Limited, or the Flowers of Progress, which debuted in 1893. It’s the story of a South Pacific island, Utopia, which its sovereign, King Paramount, wishes to model on Great Britain. To that end, he hosts several British advisers, one [...]
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