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[giving notes after a dress rehearsal] Gilbert:
Your performances were, on the whole, promising, which is more than can be said, alas, for that of the sliding doors. One of which might have thought it was in Japan, but the other was apparently stubbornly laboring under the misapprehension that it was on holiday in Yorkshire. [laughter] Richard Barker:
Where was the man, Mr. Seymour? Mr. Seymour, Production Manager:
Rest assured, Mr. Barker, that tomorrow night he will be with us in Japan
Your performances were, on the whole, promising, which is more than can be said, alas, for that of the sliding doors. One of which might have thought it was in Japan, but the other was apparently stubbornly laboring under the misapprehension that it was on holiday in Yorkshire. [laughter] Richard Barker:
Where was the man, Mr. Seymour? Mr. Seymour, Production Manager:
Rest assured, Mr. Barker, that tomorrow night he will be with us in Japan
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Your performances were on the whoIe promising
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which is more than can be said alas for that of the sliding doors
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AIl ChuckIe
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One of which might have thought it was in Japan
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but the other was apparentIy stubbornly laboring under the misapprehension
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that it was on holiday in Yorkshire
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All Laughing
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Where was the man Mr Seymour Rest assured Mr Barker
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that tomorrow night he wiII be with us in Japan
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Movie Summary
Set in the 1880s, the story of how, during a creative dry spell, the partnership of the legendary musical/theatrical writers Gilbert and Sullivan almost dissolves, before they turn it all around and write the Mikado.

