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W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan are famous for their Victorian-era comic operas. Their most famous works include: The Mikado, a satire of British politics but set in Japan; The Pirates of Penzance, about a man born on a leap year who cannot escape his apprenticeship to a group of pirates; and H.M.S. Pintafore, about love across social classes.

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They performed many of their shows in the Savoy Theater, thus the term savoy-yard.

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