Word: bumbershoot
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...must have seemed so to the startled senior citizen, to Gilbert and Sullivan traditionalists-Can there be such a thing as a Gilbert and Sullivan radical?-and to anyone else who expected an orthodox production that was proper right down to the last parasol. There wasn't a bumbershoot of any description on the Lyric stage. No fans either. They were replaced with tokens and totems of the new pan-Orientalism: signs that blink out Sony, Seiko and, inevitably, Coca-Cola; NankiPoo (Tenor Neil Rosenshein), the wandering minstrel, transformed into a rocker with a red guitar; Yum-Yum (Soprano...