Hi, Tim:

1) My god! The group's first effort and they do The Gondoliers! To put bums on seats? Wow. I'da gone with The Music Man.

2) Music directors running off with pianists. Oh, if I had a nickel . . .

3) What perseverence on your part. As Mark said, I use Composer the other way around, to create the scores for others to play, but to create "human" sounding playback for the complete score to The Gondoliers. Wow.

4) Yeah, the G&S archive is great. If the group is looking for a smaller show that is a real barn-burner, look at Cox & Box. It's 50 minutes long, 3 people, Sullivan but not Gilbert, and more fun that a barrel of monkeys. And, it puts bums on seats.

David