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Posted by Robin Gordon-Powell on July 5, 2007, 8:31 pm
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With reference to John France's enthusiastic review of "The Long Day Closes" posted today... Sorry to have to pull you up on a seemingly minor matter of fact - but W S Gilbert did NOT write the words to Cox and Box (1866) - that was Francis Cowley Burnand, who later became editor of Punch. The first collaboration between W S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan was "Thespis" in 1871. I have not yet seen the disc, but I hope that the above mistake was not printed in the CD booklet - that would be too clumsy!
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