A good thing that the operetta outlasted this review. "Never mind the Why and Wherefore..."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/26/hms-pinafore-premiere-gilbert-sullivan-1878

#GilbertAndSullivan #HMSPinafore

Yesterday, we saw #NYGASP’s #HMSPinafore.

The best part was Cap’t Corcoran falling in love with Little Buttercup. When he confides his woes to her, she shows empathy, and then, as she leaves, the Cap’t brings a telescope up to his eye, scopes out her backside as she bends over, and says to himself/the audience, “A plump and pleasing person.”

The audience laughed.

My hb & I look like the Cap’t & Buttercup.

And I was reminded of how infrequently we see fat women as both admired & DESIRED.