In “Despicable Me 3,” the Minions are escaping from security guards and find themselves onstage at a singing competition. What will get them out of this mess? Some Gilbert and Sullivan, it turns out.
NEW YORK — W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan’s “The Pirates of Penzance” is a foundational musical. First seen in New York in 1879, this wacky yarn of swashbuckling pirates, Monty Pythonesque coppers ...