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The Shaw Festival - "Engaged"


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A comic look at love, marriage and money from one half of the team of Gilbert and Sullivan. We’re in Scotland as yet another train is “derailed” (by some locals) and the passengers have to stay the night. They include a wealthy bachelor who can’t see a pretty girl without proposing to her and within minutes he’s gotten engaged – twice! What’s worse is, he’s already engaged! Written in 1877, a year before Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, the celebrated team’s librettist created a sensation of his own with this satire that went on to inspire the comedies of Shaw, Oscar Wilde and Noël Coward.