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Thread #87995   Message #3762882
Posted By: keberoxu
04-Jan-16 - 03:15 PM
Thread Name: Gilbert & Sullivan---Rarely done piece
Subject: RE: Gilbert & Sullivan---Rarely done piece
There is a piece by W. S. Gilbert alone, I think it might be a one-act play, with a title like On Bail.

For a particularly off-the-wall production of Die Fledermaus in English translation, a director who shall remain nameless helped himself to some of the Gilbert zingers in On Bail, and sandwiched them into the Fledermaus dialogue.

I only recall one:

"A white tie is the recognized emblem of innocence."

The fellow who says it is explaining to his wife, why his friend is taking him to jail while they are both in formal dress.