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She was also a choreographer for the Washington Savoyards for 10 years and for other local amateur theater groups.

The chef, who is never without his black Savoyard hat, had lambasted “incompetent” Michelin inspectors who he said claimed he had used English Cheddar cheese in a soufflé instead of French Reblochon.

Think of this as a Club Med for Savoyards, the term for devotees of Gilbert & Sullivan’s effervescent art.

Yet while those cultists known as Savoyards may find fault, this “Pirates” turns out to be the most charmingly relaxed production of a Gilbert and Sullivan work that I’ve come across.

New recruits were initiated into la yape, pilfering in Savoyard slang, but those who refused were excluded.