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That evening, she stepped into the orchestra pit for a San Juan Community Theatre rehearsal, joining several other county employees in the cast and crew putting on Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera “The Pirates of Penzance.”

Roundabout Theater Company, the biggest nonprofit operating on Broadway, is planning to stage a jazz-inflected production of “The Pirates of Penzance,” Gilbert and Sullivan’s famed 19th-century comic operetta, in the spring of 2025, the organization said Tuesday.

But its summaries of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” and of Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Left Hand of Darkness” – both slightly more niche but far from obscure – come close to playing Mad Libs with the character and place names.

Williams’ stage appearances included Broadway shows, including “Grease” and “Pirates of Penzance.”

Before he signed off the stage, he sang his version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General,” a signature tune from their comic opera “The Pirates of Penzance.”