David Hyde Pierce, the very model of a modern Major-General, in “Pirates! The Penzance Musical”
All David Hyde Pierce has to do is step out on stage, and he gets applause, even before he launches into the idiotic tongue-twister from “The Pirates of Penzance”: I am the very model of a modern Major-General,I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral,I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historicalFrom Marathon…