A Winning 'Yeomen of the Guard' Comes to City Center
For some time before writing “The Yeomen of the Guard or, The Merry Man and His Maid,” composer Arthur Sullivan was chaffing at the bit to quit his collaboration with William S. Gilbert and turn to grander musical compositions such as opera and oratorio. So after rejecting yet more of the same old magical plot lines, Sullivan was pleased when Gilbert presented his outline sketch for “The Yeomen of t…