“I do not subscribe to the theory that when a popular member of the company leaves, it is the end of the world — that things will never be the same again. Of course they won't, for each artist leaves something of himself or herself in a role.”

—  John Reed (actor)

100 years of D'Oyly Carte and Gilbert and Sullivan (1975).

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