Could you make it up?
Imagine, you’re an opera company putting on a family show, The Pirates of Penzance
Then some sensitive soul says: but it’s got rude words and it’s a bit pushy-shovy.
I know, let’s offer a helpline.
ENO management needs to walk the plank.
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