User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/TDI-G&S Sneak Preview/@comment-1874924-20100318024947

Well, the whole point of TDI-G&S is to introduce people to something they aren't familiar with but might enjoy. The G&S oeuvre is still well-known, but is no longer a part of the popular culture the way it once was (rather like what's happening to the Star Trek franchise).

G&S wrote 14 operettas--if written today, they would be called musicals--between 1871 and 1896. The "main sequence", the 11 plays that remain popular to this day, were written between 1875 and 1889. TDI-G&S will have an Intro to G&S page.

Several TDI characters, and one couple, have reasonably close analogs in the G&S series. These are Chris, Chef, Ezekiel, Noah (who also somewhat resembles Gilbert himself), Justin, Izzy, Duncan, Heather, and Duncan/Courtney.

Bye the bye, I recently gave Gigi a G&S "theme song" for LAL. She loved it and said, not surprisingly, that she'd never seen anything like it. You can find it on her talk page, or on the LAL discussion page.