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Pinafores, Buttercups and Bagels

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As the velvet curtain rises on Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore, Little Buttercup's offers of bagels, knishes and latkes seem strangely out of place with this parody of Englishness. This may well be Gilbert and Sullivan, but in a parallel universe! Ian Bradley travels to New York to meet those in the Gilbert and Sullivan Yiddish Light Opera
Company whose efforts to cross a most unlikely cultural bridge have led to surprising results. Repeated from Tuesday

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