musical comedy drawing on exactly the same Gilbert and Sullivan material. However, Kaufman's version, which opened exactly a week after Memphis, was a much more pronounced critical failure. "The Nightingale, The Moon and I," one of the numbers closely based on the Gilbert and Sullivan originals, was recorded in the 1990s for the compilation album Life's a Funny Present''. Notes References Sources External links Broadway musicals 1945 musicals Adaptations of works by Gilbert and Sullivan Musicals based on operas