[Fiji Hill]

I saw The Pirates of Penzance at the LosAngeles Music Center in 1982. Andy Gibb played the lead. Above the stage were two huge portraits of Queen Victoria and President Hayes.

Gibb did a superb job, but unbeknownst to us, he was on his way down. A few weeks later, he would be dropped from the cast when the production went on the road. A problem with drugs eventually ended his show business career and then his life.

[luvbach1]

I saw Bill Hayes (he of soap opera fame, and earlier, Sid Caesar’s Show of Shows, now retired) in the Mikado (he was (Nan Ke Poo)at the Railroad Fair in Chicago in 1949. I was just a kid and he a young man.