The Happy Land — is a play with music written in 1873 by W. S. Gilbert (under the pseudonym F. Latour Tomline) and Gilbert Arthur à Beckett. The musical play burlesques Gilbert s earlier play, The Wicked World . The blank verse piece opened at the Royal Court… … Wikipedia
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