Now Available! H.M.S. Pinafore: Stratford Festival Classics Earning rave reviews during its run at Ontario’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival, this unforgettable Gilbert and Sullivan operetta takes a tongue-in- cheek approach to British class structure. It’s also a romance, with Josephine (Katherine Terrell) plan- ning to elope with sailor Ralph Rackstraw (James McLean) and thwarted by villainous Dick Deadeye (Eric Donkin)—until a startling secret enables love to triumph! (90 minutes) © 1986 C ‡ $169.95 QGR48855 • DVD
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