Operetta Buff Gifts

Gentlemen of Japan

Shepherd and eurydice

'Go on, Andy, it's high time anteaters learned size isn't everything!'

Champagne

Captain Corcoran, Commander of H.M.S. Pinafore

Mikado

"Can you speak up: there's a bloody racket going on in the background."

Sir Jasper Murgatroyd

Sir Conrad Murgatroyd

Don Pasquale

Nanki Poo

"Well, that's show business."

Awaiting the sensation of a short sharp shock

In the eighties, Americans knew how to be Americans. Big cars. Big radios. Big hair. Everything was big. Unfortunately, I was so buff that all my huge stuff looked tiny in comparison. So I would loan my stuff to the skinniest, wimpiest kid I could find. Hold this. Let me reminisce vicariously through you. (Sigh.) Those were the days. Is it working?

Sir Rupert Murgatroyd

Flute-a-licious.

Leonard Bernstein

Despite his perfect 'Poker Face'. the others always seemed to know when Toby had a good hand...

Enrico from Lucia di Lammermoor

'This was to have been Hillary's greatest moment...'

Sir Gilbert Murgatroyd

Aleksandr Skiabin

"Clare, I just can't reed you sometimes."

'We thought we'd try a Schubert Lieder karaoke night.'

Pirate

Pirate King!

Sir Mervyn Murgatroyd

Peter

'Let's get out of here! -- That's one of those thingies that hold up pizza box lids!'

"The dancing's fine, but I wish we could hear more viola."

A monkey in a suit

Lady Anglea

Orpheus and his violin

Pirates

Musician rushing to the conservatory.