The dramas written by the most popular playwright of the Victorian era & the music of that era's most honored composer are largely unknown today yet join these two together & you get Gilbert & Sullivan who together revolutionized the world of musical comedy in the late 1800s. However, behind their enormously popular collaboration, they simply did not get along. It was success after success that forced the team to stay together for fifteen glorious years. The start of the second century of Gilbert & Sullivan's popularity provides a fine occasion to look again at the story behind these brilliant men & their amazing comic operas