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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan


from the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to use "songs and scenes" from various Gilbert and Sullivan operas in a film to be made the next year. Korda had negotiated with Bridget D'Oyly Carte, granddaughter of Richard, for the rights. Sullivan's music would go into public domain at the end of 1950, but Gilbert's lyrics were still in copyright until 1961. Korda's nephew Michael Korda later claimed his uncle "loathed Gilbert and Sullivan and hated musicals in general, but Gilliat and Launder had urged him to finance the
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan is a 1953 British technicolor film that dramatises the story of the collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert and Sullivan wrote 14 comic operas, later referred to as the Savoy Operas, which became the most popular series of musical entertainments of the Victorian era and are still popular today. The film was written by Sidney Gilliat and Leslie Baily, based on Baily's "The Gilbert and Sullivan Book". It was directed by Gilliat, with cinematography by Christopher Challis and production design by
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television in various ways that include extensive use of Sullivan's music or where action occurs during a performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, such as in the film "The Girl Said No". There are also a number of Gilbert and Sullivan biographical films, such as Mike Leigh's "Topsy-Turvy" (2000) and "The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan" (1953), as well as shows about the partnership, including a 1938 Broadway show, "Knights of Song" and a 1975 West End
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Pineapple Poll


Pineapple Poll is a Gilbert and Sullivan-inspired comic ballet, created by choreographer John Cranko with arranger Sir Charles Mackerras. "Pineapple Poll" is based on "The Bumboat Woman's Story", one of W. S. Gilbert's Bab Ballads, written in 1870. The Gilbert and Sullivan opera "H.M.S. Pinafore" was also based, in part, on this story. For the ballet, Cranko expanded the story of the Bab Ballad and added a happy ending. All the music is arranged from Sullivan's music. The
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published by D. Dalziel in 1883 and concerns the Chicago & Alton Railway. There are many children's books retelling the stories of the operas, or stories about the history of the famous partnership, including two by Gilbert himself. There are also children's biographies or fictionalisations about the lives of the two men or the relationship between the two, such as the 2009 book, "The Fabulous Feud of Gilbert & Sullivan". P. G. Wodehouse makes dozens of references to Gilbert and Sullivan in his works. Wodehouse sometimes referred to
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the 21st birthday of London Films. In March 1951 Korda said the film "would not be a straight biography but rather an episodic treatment of the Gilbert and Sullivan era, which will also include their music and biographical material." The script was written by Gilliat and Leslie Baily, who had written "The Gilbert and Sullivan Book" and a BBC film on Gilbert and Sullivan. They decided to focus the script on the conflict between the composers caused by Sullivan's feeling that he was wasting his time writing comic operas.
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Arts Center of the State University of New York at Purchase in September 1993. The cast starred George Grizzard, Tim Jerome and Donna English. Subsequent productions followed. This is not the only show about the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership. A 1938 Broadway show, "Knights of Song", tells the story of the partnership, as do the musicals "The Savoyards", by Donald Madgwick (1971) and "Tarantara Tarantara", by Ian Taylor (1975), and the films "The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
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The Up-to-Date Sorcerer


the opera "The Sorcerer". Quotes from Gilbert and Sullivan operas occur frequently in Asimov's stories; also in some of his verses explaining how he thinks up new plots for his stories. The words "up-to-date" in the title refer to the titles of musical burlesques of the 1880s and early 1890s like "Faust up to date". In 1894, also, George Augustus Sala wrote a book called "London Up to Date". Professor Wellington Johns, an endocrinologist, experiments with a love
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of the partnership, seeing a large item for the purchase of a new carpet at the Savoy Theatre. He confronts Carte, at the new theatre, over lavish expenses. He also quarrels with Sullivan, and Gilbert announces that he will write no more Savoy operas. Sullivan's grand opera "Ivanhoe" debuts, and he presents a bound volume to the Queen. She commands a private performance at Windsor Castle but astonishes Sullivan by choosing to hear "The Gondoliers". Apart from Gilbert, Sullivan comes to realise that his
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan


true gifts lie with light music. Richard and Helen Carte toast the arrival of the twentieth century, hoping for a revival of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership. Stopping by at a rehearsal for a revival of "The Yeomen of the Guard", Gilbert runs into Sullivan, after having been apart for years. Sullivan is ill and using a wheelchair. The two men make up and propose taking a curtain call together with Carte, all three of them in wheelchairs. During the performance, however, news arrives of Sullivan's
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The Gentleman in Black


he was developing his unique style of absurdist humour, described as "Topsy-Turvy", made up of "a combination of wit, irony, topsyturvydom, parody, observation, theatrical technique, and profound intelligence". The opera "The Gentleman in Black", one of Gilbert's most absurdist pieces, dates from the middle of this period, when Gilbert was trying different styles and working towards the mature comic style of his later work, including the famous series of Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The story of "
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The Up-to-Date Sorcerer


"The Up-to-Date Sorcerer" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the July 1958 issue of "Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction" and reprinted in the 1969 collection "Nightfall and Other Stories". Requested and encouraged by editor Anthony Boucher, the story is a deliberate attempt by the author to write something humorous that incorporates his love of the complex yet logical plots found in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. It consists largely of a series of puns on
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, "The Chieftain", as "(Der Häuptling)". Gilbert adapted the stories of "H.M.S. Pinafore" and "The Mikado" into children's books called "The Pinafore Picture Book" and "The Story of The Mikado" giving, in some cases, backstory that is not found in the librettos. Many other children's books have since been written retelling the stories of the operas or adapting characters or events from them. In the 19th century, the most popular Gilbert and Sullivan songs and music were
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author and composer remain at odds. Mrs. Helen Carte travels to Monte Carlo to see Sullivan on holiday. She gives him the news that her husband will build another theatre to present grand opera, and wants Sullivan to compose an opera for the theatre. Sullivan happily agrees, but at the same time, Gilbert has written a libretto for another comic opera. Sullivan also accepts this libretto, and "The Gondoliers" is another hit. Gilbert, suffering from gout, and in a particularly foul temper, examines the financial accounts
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a triumphant curtain call before the enthusiastic crowd. Nevertheless, Sullivan is unhappy writing comic opera. When Gilbert proposes a new piece involving the device of a magic lozenge, Sullivan objects that he wants to devote himself to serious music. Sullivan's friend, critic Joseph Bennett, writes a libretto for a cantata based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Golden Legend". Meanwhile, Gilbert, inspired by the sight of a Japanese sword hanging in his study, proposes a new plot, and Sullivan begins work. When Bennett goes
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reissued on video by the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, Round recorded introductions for each. The Gilbert and Sullivan for All team also recorded a miscellaneous LP, including Valerie Masterson and Gillian Knight as Princesses Nekaya and Kalyba in an excerpt from "Utopia, Limited", and Round as Antonio in "The Gondoliers". With Donald Adams, he recorded a musical documentary, "The Story of Gilbert & Sullivan", written by Dr. Thomas Heric. He also took part in two recordings of lesser-known Sullivan music with
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has featured the Long Island premieres of four operas—Princess Ida, The Yeomen of the Guard, Utopia, Limited and The Grand Duke, as well as of the Sullivan/Stephenson operetta The Zoo. In 1995 the Company presented the world premiere of Gayden Wren’s A Gilbert & Sullivan Christmas Carol. The premiere sold out, prompting the Company to revive it as a season fund-raiser for several years thereafter. The show, which tells the Charles Dickens story with new lyrics set to Gilbert & Sullivan songs, went
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Dr Sullivan and Mr Gilbert


Dr Sullivan and Mr Gilbert is a play written by Christopher Webber, on commission from Mull Theatre in Scotland, with music by Arthur Sullivan. It is a fantasy retelling of the Gilbert and Sullivan story, in which images and characters from Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" are superimposed onto familiar figures from the Savoy Operas. The play was performed at Mull Theatre throughout July, August and September 1993. It was revived in 1998 at Glasgow Citizens' Theatre and then toured throughout Scotland. The play was published in 1999
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The Mountebanks


the opera in 1884, which Sullivan rejected, both because of the story's mechanical contrivance, and because they had already produced an opera concerning a magic potion, "The Sorcerer" (1877); Sullivan felt that the story lacked "human emotion". The idea of a magic potion that changes human behaviour has long been a common theme of literature and opera. The device allowed Gilbert to explore "how people behave when they are forced to live with the consequences of their own actions." The Gilbert and Sullivan
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", in 1870, the composer Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to his friend, the young composer Arthur Sullivan. Over the next year, before the two first collaborated, Gilbert continued to write humorous verse, stories and plays, including the comic operas "Our Island Home" (1870) and "A Sensation Novel" (1871), and the blank verse comedies "The Princess" (1870), "The Palace of Truth" (1870) and "Pygmalion and Galatea" (1871). Sullivan was born
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to see Sullivan, he finds that "The Mikado" is being rehearsed instead of his cantata. He informs Sullivan that, if he would get around to finishing "The Golden Legend", Queen Victoria will attend the premiere. Likewise, when Gilbert calls on Sullivan, he sees him rehearsing "The Golden Legend", as Bennett stands watch. When Bennett dozes off, Sullivan turns back to "The Mikado". After both works debut, Sullivan is knighted. The Queen inquires if he will write a grand opera
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan


Penzance" premieres in New York to much acclaim, and Carte soon builds a new theatre in London to present the partnership's operas. Everyone is delighted. The Savoy Theatre opens with the opening night of "Iolanthe". Sullivan revels in the atmosphere of the premiere, while Gilbert, as usual, is nervous and apprehensive. At the opening, Carte demonstrates the safety of the theatre's innovative electric lighting. Sullivan conducts the performance, but Gilbert escapes the theatre to walk the streets, returning just in time to take
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of Truth", which opened in 1870 to widespread acclaim. He was also developing his unique style of absurdist humour, described as "Topsy-Turvy", made up of "a combination of wit, irony, topsyturvydom, parody, observation, theatrical technique, and profound intelligence". The story and play "Creatures of Impulse" date from the middle of this period, when Gilbert was trying different styles and working towards the mature style of his later work, including the famous series of Gilbert and Sullivan operas.
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Pirates of Penzance"—several characters pass the time with it in "Power Play", and references to "When the foeman bares his steel" appear in "Crystal Line". Aside from film adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan operas, several films have treated the G&S partnership. Mike Leigh's film "Topsy-Turvy" (1999) is an award-winning film depiction of the team and the creation of their most popular opera, "The Mikado". Another G&S film is the 1953 "The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
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Hein Heckroth. It was produced by Gilliat and Frank Launder for London Films in time to mark the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Some re-releases of the film re-titled it The Great Gilbert and Sullivan. The film was a box-office failure. In addition to describing the ups and downs of the partnership between Gilbert and Sullivan, and their relationships with their producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte, the movie depicts many of the people who performed in the original runs of the operas and includes extensive musical excerpts from
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, each of which was first produced at the Watermill Theatre, in which the actors also served as the orchestra, playing the musical instruments. Shows that use G&S songs to tell the story of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership include a 1938 Broadway show, "Knights of Song", and a 1975 West End show called "Tarantara! Tarantara!" Many other musicals parody or pastiche the operas. However, the influence of Gilbert and Sullivan on goes beyond musical theatre to comedy in general. Professor Carolyn Williams notes: "
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan


. Just before the premiere of their next opera, "Ruddigore", Sullivan asks Gilbert to write the libretto for his first grand opera. Gilbert declines, stating that in such a work the words play second fiddle to the music, and Sullivan is angered saying that he has always had to hold the music back so that the words could predominate, and that he no longer takes pleasure in writing comic operas. "Ruddigore" receives negative reviews and some negative audience response. Although the piece is eventually a financial success,
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of the earlier Savoy operas. For their next piece, Gilbert submitted another version of the magic lozenge plot, which Sullivan again rejected. Gilbert finally proposed a comparatively serious opera, to which Sullivan agreed. Although it was not a grand opera, "The Yeomen of the Guard" (1888) provided him with the opportunity to compose his most ambitious stage work to date. As early as 1883 Sullivan had been under pressure from the musical establishment to write a grand opera. In 1885 he told an interviewer, "The
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Pineapple Poll


on this story. Cranko introduced new characters (Mrs Dimple) and gave Poll an admirer to enable a happy ending. Mackerras arranged the score of "Pineapple Poll" from the Gilbert and Sullivan repertoire, as well as Sullivan's comic opera "Cox and Box" (written with F. C. Burnand), and Sullivan's "Overture di Ballo". Music from all of the extant Gilbert and Sullivan operas is included, except for "Utopia Limited" and "The Grand Duke". "Pineapple Poll" premiered on
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with social status (building on a theme introduced in "The Sorcerer", love between members of different social classes). As with many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise twist changes everything dramatically near the end of the story. Gilbert oversaw the designs of sets and costumes, and he directed the performers on stage. He sought realism in acting, shunned self-conscious interaction with the audience, and insisted on a standard of characterisation where the characters were never aware of their own absurdity. Gilbert insisted that
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Tom Cobb


time "Tom Cobb" was written, but both Gilbert and Sullivan were still producing a considerable amount of work separately. Several plot elements from "Tom Cobb" reappear in Gilbert and Sullivan's last opera, "The Grand Duke" (1896). This full-length romantic farce was a departure by Gilbert from his earlier farces, which had generally been short works in one act. Gilbert claimed, in a 1903 story article called "My Last Client", that the idea for the play came to him when
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Two Merry Monarchs


they took strong exception to the story and the music. "The Times" stated that the musical "lacks several elements which are requisite to make a good comic opera". The paper pronounced the music "not very distinguished" and concluded its review, "When one was not regretting Gilbert, one was regretting Sullivan; and when one ceased for a moment to regret Sullivan, one regretted Gilbert." "The Era" declared "The story becomes less easy to follow as the play proceeds; indeed, it serves
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serve as the centrepiece for an evening's entertainment. Gilbert found a subject in one of his own short stories, "The Elixir of Love," which concerned the complications arising when a love potion is distributed to all the residents of a small village. The leading character was a Cockney businessman who happened to be a sorcerer, a purveyor of blessings (not much called for) and curses (very popular). Gilbert and Sullivan were tireless taskmasters, seeing to it that "The Sorcerer" (1877) opened as
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New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players


produced a Gilbert and Sullivan potpourri CD titled "Oh Joy! Oh, Rapture!". The company celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2014 with a New York season at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York University and a return to the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in England. In 2015, the company withdrew a planned revival of "The Mikado" after a protest by Asian-Americans about stereotypical elements of their production reflected in the company's publicity materials. The company redesigned its production after consulting with an
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death. Some years later, Gilbert is finally knighted. Source: Among the additional singing voices heard on the soundtrack are Webster Booth, Owen Brannigan, Muriel Brunskill, John Cameron, Elsie Morison, Marjorie Thomas, Jennifer Vyvyan and Harold Williams. In 1936 Michael Balcon bought the rights to a play about the lives of Gilbert and Sullivan by Lesser Samuels and Marion Dex. However he wanted permission from the estates of Gilbert and Sulivan before he would make it, and no film resulted. By 1950 Alex Korda had secured permission
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" by Kerry Greenwood (a Phryne Fisher book, 1995; "Ruddigore"); "Murder and Sullivan" by Sara Hoskinson Frommer (1997; "Ruddigore"); "Death of a Pooh-Bah" by Karen Sturges (2000; "Mikado"). and "Vengeance Dire" by Roberta Morrell (2001; "Pirates"); Other mystery books and stories involve Gilbert and/or Sullivan to a lesser degree. The Dalziel and Pascoe books of Reginald Hill contain many references to G&S. One of the recurring
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan


dull costume productions of the Korda group since 1947 find full scope in this frightfully proper account ... it is never easy to distinguish between operetta and real life narration. ... The colour is wonderful, the music is a feast of reminiscence for G & S fans, the technical qualities are precise, the score is (just) out of copyright and the story is very, very English. No comment will prevent those who love Gilbert and Sullivan from visiting and enjoying this picture ... all will probably be bored for at least some
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his musical gifts on triviality, foreshadowing criticism from the musical establishment that will follow Sullivan for the rest of his career. Still wrestling with this dilemma, Sullivan joins Gilbert and the impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte in a partnership to create more light operas. Their subsequent operas, "The Sorcerer" and, especially, "H.M.S. Pinafore", become so popular that they are pirated extensively in America. The entire company goes on tour there so that the partnership can profit from their fame in the new world. "The Pirates of
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Gilbert and Sullivan


opera would be ready when the old one closed. On 22 March 1884, he gave Gilbert and Sullivan contractual notice that a new opera would be required in six months' time. In the meantime, when "Ida" closed, Carte produced a revival of "The Sorcerer". The most successful of the Savoy Operas was "The Mikado" (1885), which made fun of English bureaucracy, thinly disguised by a Japanese setting. Gilbert initially proposed a story for a new opera about a magic lozenge that would
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The Mountebanks


The Mountebanks is a comic opera in two acts with music by Alfred Cellier and Ivan Caryll and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns a magic potion that causes the person to whom it is administered to become what he or she has pretended to be. It is similar to several "magic lozenge" plots that Gilbert had proposed to the composer Arthur Sullivan, but that Sullivan had rejected, earlier in their careers. To set his libretto to music, Gilbert turned to Cellier, who had previously been a musical
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The Author's Ordeal" (1957), a pastiche of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song similar to the Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song from "Iolanthe", depicting the agonies that Asimov went through in thinking up a new science fiction story. Another such pastiche is "The Foundation of S.F. Success" (1954). Both are included in his collection of short stories "Earth Is Room Enough". The Rats, Bats and Vats series also includes numerous G&S character names and phrases, since the D'Oyly Carte recordings of
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Rob Riley (comic strip)


oyster-shaped bay. Dartmouth castle is shown in the first ever instalment of the story in Ranger, dated Sep 18 1965. An amalgamation of Dartmouth and Kingswear can clearly be seen in the bottom panel of the first page instalment of Rob Riley appearing in "Ranger", dated Nov. 20 1965. The story follows Rob from adolescence as he begins secondary school through to adulthood, by which time he is employed as a Private Detective. At one point he obtained a scholarship to a public school, the strip dealt with
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1888). Sullivan wished to produce further serious works with Gilbert. He had collaborated with no other librettist since 1875. But Gilbert felt that the reaction to "The Yeomen of the Guard" had "not been so convincing as to warrant us in assuming that the public want something more earnest still". He proposed instead that Sullivan should go ahead with his plan to write a grand opera, but should continue also to compose comic works for the Savoy. Sullivan was not immediately persuaded. He replied, "I have
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The Grand Duke


's insistence upon her appearing in his 1894 opera, "His Excellency", caused Sullivan to refuse to set the piece. After "His Excellency" closed in April 1895, McIntosh wrote to Sullivan informing him that she planned to return to concert singing, and so the obstacle to his further collaboration with Gilbert was removed. Meanwhile, Sullivan had written a comic opera for the Savoy Theatre with F. C. Burnand, "The Chieftain", but that had closed in March 1895. Gilbert had begun working on the story of
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H.M.S. Pinafore


. In 1982, Brent Walker Productions produced "Pinafore" as part of its series of Gilbert and Sullivan television films. According to discographer Marc Shepherd, the "Pinafore" video "is widely considered one of the worst" in the series. More recent professional productions have been recorded on video by the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival. "H.M.S. Pinafore" has been adapted many times. W. S. Gilbert wrote a 1909 children's book called "The Pinafore Picture Book", illustrated by Alice Woodward, which retells the story
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state similar to drunkenness, sings snippets of "There Grew a Little Flower" (from "Ruddigore"), "I'm Called Little Buttercup" (from "Pinafore"), "When I First Put This Uniform On" (from "Patience"), and "The Nightmare Song" (from "Iolanthe"). He also wrote a short story called "The Up-To-Date Sorcerer" that is a parody of and homage to "The Sorcerer". In addition, Asimov wrote "
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Daniel J. Lockwood


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was "Cox and Box" (1866), written with librettist F. C. Burnand for an informal gathering of friends. Public performance followed, with W. S. Gilbert (then writing dramatic criticism for the magazine "Fun") saying that Sullivan's score "is, in many places, of too high a class for the grotesquely absurd plot to which it is wedded." Nonetheless, it proved highly successful, and is still regularly performed today. Sullivan and Burnand's second opera, "The Contrabandista" (1867)
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the film is played by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent. The film starred Robert Morley as W. S. Gilbert, Maurice Evans as Arthur Sullivan, Peter Finch as Richard D'Oyly Carte, Eileen Herlie as Helen Carte and Martyn Green as George Grossmith. Appearances were also made by Dinah Sheridan as Grace Marston, Wilfrid Hyde-White as Mr. Marston, Leonard Sachs as Smythe, Owen Brannigan as the company's principal heavy baritone, Thomas Round as the company's principal tenor, Isabel Dean as Mrs. Gilbert,
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Daniel J. Lockwood


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Gilbert and Sullivan for All


Other former members of D'Oyly Carte who appeared with Gilbert and Sullivan for All, include Gillian Knight, Ann Hood, John Cartier, Thomas Lawlor, Pauline Wales, and Geoffrey Shovelton. During their Gilbert and Sullivan for All years, Round and Adams also appeared on tour as Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert, respectively, in "Tarantara! Tarantara!", Ian Taylor's musical about the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership. Gilbert and Sullivan for All remained active throughout the early 1980s, until Adams's growing career as an operatic
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National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company


The National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company (formerly the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company) is an English professional repertory company that performs Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy operas. Founded in 1995 to perform at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, the company generally stages three or four productions each summer, giving up to 16 performances in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and also touring. The company performs full-scale productions of the Gilbert and Sullivan works, with orchestra, using period settings and costumes. Since 2010, in addition to its
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genre. H. Rider Haggard published "She" first serialized in "The Graphic" from October 1886 to January 1887. In 1888 Oscar Wilde published "The Happy Prince and Other Stories". Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "The Yeomen of the Guard", or, "The Merryman and his Maid" was staged. Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas "The Gondoliers", or, "The King of Barataria" (1889), "Utopia, Limited", or, "The Flowers of Progress" (1893
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" (or "The Great Gilbert and Sullivan" in the U.S.), starring Robert Morley as Gilbert and Maurice Evans as Sullivan, with Martyn Green as George Grossmith. In a short 1950 film called "The Return of Gilbert and Sullivan", Gilbert and Sullivan return to Earth to protest the jazz treatment of their work. In the 1951 film "The Magic Box" Sir Arthur Sullivan, played by the film conductor, Muir Mathieson, conducts a choral concert of the Bath Choral Society. Film adaptations of the operas
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novels and short stories, some of which included illustrations by his son. In 1861, to supplement his income, the younger Gilbert began writing illustrated stories, poems and articles of his own, many of which would later be mined as inspiration for his plays and operas, particularly Gilbert's series of illustrated poems, the "Bab Ballads". In the "Bab Ballads" and his early plays, Gilbert developed a unique "topsy-turvy" style in which humour was derived by setting up a ridiculous premise and working
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by the repertory company that Gilbert, Sullivan and their producer Richard D'Oyly Carte founded, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. These Savoy operas continue to be frequently performed in the English-speaking world and beyond. Gilbert's creative output included over 75 plays and libretti, and numerous short stories, poems and lyrics, both comic and serious. After brief careers as a government clerk and a lawyer, Gilbert began to focus, in the 1860s, on writing light verse, including his "Bab Ballads", short stories, theatre
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The Star of Christmas


flash, but rather that love must come from the inside; Jesus was sent on Christmas to help enable such a change, and He is the true "Star of Christmas". The story of "The Star of Christmas" centers on two would-be operatic composers who are based on W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. "VeggieTales" has spoofed Gilbert and Sullivan's work in "Lyle the Kindly Viking" and (specifically "The Mikado") in "Sumo of the Opera". In this episode however
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It... afforded scope for picturesque treatment, scenery and costume, and I think that the idea of a chief magistrate, who is... judge and actual executioner in one, and yet would not hurt a worm, may perhaps please the public." Setting the opera in Japan, an exotic locale far away from Britain, allowed Gilbert and Sullivan to satirise British politics and institutions more freely by clothing them in superficial Japanese trappings. Gilbert wrote, "The Mikado of the opera was an imaginary monarch of a remote period and
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Hugh Thomson


throughout the publication. Thomson was often praised for his ability to "project himself into a story." Much of his work has become inseparable from the publications themselves. Such is the case with his illustrations for "Pride and Prejudice" and the other Austen novels. When J. M. Barrie's "Quality Street" was published with Thomson's illustrations in 1913, the art critic for the "Daily News" stated, "The Barrie-Thomson combination is as perfect in its way as that of Gilbert and Sullivan."
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The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 3/28/2003 Macomb Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 3/26/2003 Galvin Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 2/10/2003 Barbara B. Mann Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 2/9/2003 Van Wezel Hall New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 2/8/2003 The King Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 2/7/2003 The Kravis Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 2/6/2003 Moran Theatre New York Gilbert
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Martyn Green


wrote: "It was the largest single exodus of performers in D'Oyly Carte history, and that was why the sense of sadness that hovered over the season was so marked... August 1951 was the end of an era." After leaving the D'Oyly Carte company, Green appeared as George Grossmith in the film "The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan" (filmed in the summer of 1952, but released in 1953). He then travelled to America, together with Ella Halman and Radley Flynn, to tour in Gilbert and Sullivan
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Daniel J. Lockwood


Company. Lockwood joined the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players in New York City in 2002. In the Gilbert & Sullivan repertory, he has performed roles such as Nanki-Poo in "The Mikado", Frederic in "Pirates of Penzance", and 1st Yeoman in "Yeomen of the Guard". He has also appeared in "Rose of Persia", "Utopia, Limited", "Trial by Jury", and "The Grand Duke". date venue company program roleBR 6/15/2013 Tarrytown Music Hall New York
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Gilbert and Sullivan


supported Carte by making an affidavit erroneously stating that there were minor legal expenses outstanding from a battle Gilbert had in 1884 with Lillian Russell. On 5 May 1890, Gilbert had written to Sullivan: "The time for putting an end to our collaboration has at last arrived." Gilbert later asked Sullivan to say he had been mistaken in his affidavit, but Sullivan refused. Gilbert felt it was a moral issue, and could not look past it. Sullivan felt that Gilbert was questioning his good faith, and in any event
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The Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island


The Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is the promotion and performance of theater, musical theater and opera, including the works of Gilbert & Sullivan. The company is based in Long Island, New York and was founded in 1954. There had been Gilbert & Sullivan performances on Long Island since at least the 1920s, ranging from school shows to community-theater productions. But there had never been an ongoing Gilbert & Sullivan company in the area until the Gilbert
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The Gondoliers


The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 7 December 1889 and ran for a very successful 554 performances (at that time the fifth longest-running piece of musical theatre in history), closing on 30 June 1891. This was the twelfth comic opera collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan. The story of the opera concerns the young bride of the heir to the throne of the fictional kingdom
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Iolanthe


Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Musical for the musical's "conception". The science fiction writer Isaac Asimov was a Gilbert and Sullivan fan. His Foundation Trilogy was conceived after his reading "Iolanthe" started a train of thought about military empires. Also, in "Runaround", a story in Asimov's "I, Robot", a robot, while in a state similar to drunkenness, sings snippets of Gilbert and Sullivan songs, including "The Nightmare Song" from "Iolanthe". In Michael
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Donald Adams


musical about the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership, and, again with Round, recorded a musical documentary, "The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan", written by Dr. Thomas Heric. In 1982, he appeared in three of the Brent Walker G&S television productions as Sir Marmaduke in "The Sorcerer", Colonel Calverley in "Patience", and Sir Roderic in "Ruddigore". Beginning in the early 1980s, Adams began to perform in operettas and opera. He was invited by Matthew Epstein to sing the title role in the
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Trial by Jury


expressly for this theatre by Mr. Arthur Sullivan in which Madame Dolaro and Nellie Bromley will appear." But around the same time, Carte also remembered Gilbert's "Trial by Jury" and knew that Gilbert had worked with Sullivan to create "Thespis". He suggested to Gilbert that Sullivan was the man to write the music for "Trial". Gilbert finally called on Sullivan and read the libretto to him on 20 February 1875. Sullivan was enthusiastic, later recalling, "[Gilbert] read it through ... in the
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Daniel J. Lockwood


Rigoletto EnsembleBR 4/3/2005 Symphony Space New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Rose of Persia EnsembleBR 1/23/2005 City Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (Understudy) & EnsembleBR 1/22/2005 City Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (Understudy) & EnsembleBR 1/22/2005 City Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (Understudy) & EnsembleBR 1/21/2005 City Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (Understudy) & EnsembleBR 1/16/2005 City Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan
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Gilbert and Sullivan


respectability" of civilisation and the peerage, and the relevance of a liberal education. The story also revisits "Pinafore"s theme of unqualified people in positions of authority, in the person of the "modern Major-General" who has up-to-date knowledge about everything except the military. The Major-General and his many daughters escape from the tender-hearted Pirates of Penzance, who are all orphans, on the false plea that he is an orphan himself. The pirates learn of the deception and re-capture
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The Sorcerer


. The 1982 Brent Walker video is considered to be one of the best of that series and is recommended. More recent professional productions have been recorded on video by the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival. "The Sorcerer" has made its way into popular culture. Isaac Asimov wrote a short story, "The Up-To-Date Sorcerer", an homage to the opera consisting largely of a series of puns on phrases from it. Charlotte MacLeod's 1985 mystery novel, "The Plain Old Man" concerns an amateur
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Sullivan and Gilbert


Sullivan and Gilbert is a jukebox musical by Ken Ludwig with music and lyrics by Gilbert and Sullivan. "Sullivan and Gilbert" features over 15 Gilbert and Sullivan songs. It examines a fictional day in 1890 when the Victorian era composer and dramatist, while embroiled in their 1890 "carpet quarrel", are requested by Queen Victoria to present a revue of songs from their operas on short notice. The musical premiered in 1983 in Milford, New Hampshire, and it has been revived several times in various places in North America.
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change the characters, which Sullivan found artificial and lacking in "human interest and probability", as well as being too similar to their earlier opera, "The Sorcerer". As dramatised in the film "Topsy-Turvy", the author and composer were at an impasse until 8 May 1884, when Gilbert dropped the lozenge idea and agreed to provide a libretto without any supernatural elements. The story focuses on a "cheap tailor," Ko-Ko, who is promoted to the position of Lord High Executioner of
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The Martyr of Antioch


oratorio, and that W. S. Gilbert would assist him in adapting the libretto. The poem concerns the martyrdom of St. Margaret of Antioch at the end of the 3rd century. Gilbert helped Sullivan to adapt Milman's poem to make it into a libretto suitable for the work. The libretto cuts text considerably, focusing the story more narrowly on the title character, and a new character, Julia, is introduced as a representative of the chorus of sun-worshippers. Milman's sons authorised Sullivan to say that the alterations "had
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan


Arthur Howard as the Usher in "Trial by Jury", Muriel Aked as Queen Victoria and Michael Ripper as Louis. The young composer Arthur Sullivan is encouraged by his friends and fiancée, Grace, to pursue the creation of "serious" works, such as his cantata "The Prodigal Son", but he is pleased by the acclaim that he receives for the music to the short comic opera "Trial by Jury", a collaboration with dramatist W. S. Gilbert. Grace leaves him, telling him that he is wasting
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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan


They used sections of eight of the Gilbert and Sullivan works. In August "The New York Times" reported that the film would be Korda's "next big colour spectacle" after his adaptation of "Tales of Hoffman" and would be designed by Hein Heckroth who designed "The Red Shoes" and "Hoffman". Ralph Richardson and John Mills were the favourites to play the title roles. Bridget D'Oyly Carte was reported to be collaborating on the film and, according to the "New York Times", "it
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Durward Lely


even though Lytton's long tenure with the company took place mostly after Lely had left it. Lely outlived nearly all of the singers with whom he had performed at the Savoy Theatre, and newspapers referred to him as the last surviving Savoyard, but younger performers in the original runs of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas lived much longer (for example Decima Moore and Nancy McIntosh). Lely died in Glasgow on 29 February 1944, at the age of 91. The date of his death is ironic for a Gilbert and Sullivan tenor
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Daniel J. Lockwood


York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance EnsembleBR 5/29/2009 Wolf Trap Filene Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance EnsembleBR 10/18/2008 Rose Theatre, Brampton, Ontario New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 10/17/2008 Rose Theatre, Brampton, Ontario New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 6/14/2008 New York City Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Mikado Nanki-PooBR 6/7/2008 New York City Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Mikado Nanki-PooBR 10/27/2007 Albany, GA New York
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Daniel J. Lockwood


Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 6/7/2003 Wolf Trapp Filene Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (Understudy) & EnsembleBR 6/6/2003 Wolf Trapp Filene Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (Understudy) & EnsembleBR 5/4/2003 Symphony Space New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players Yeoman of the Guard First YeomanBR 5/3/2003 Symphony Space New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players Yeoman of the Guard First YeomanBR 5/3/2003 Symphony Space New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players Yeoman of the Guard First YeomanBR 5/2/2003 Symphony Space New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players
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Daniel J. Lockwood


Yeoman of the Guard First YeomanBR 5/1/2003 Symphony Space New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players Yeoman of the Guard First YeomanBR 4/26/2003 John Harms Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (Understudy) & EnsembleBR 4/25/2003 State Theatre New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (Understudy) & EnsembleBR 4/1/2003 Fox Cities Performing Arts Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 3/30/2003 Wharton Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 3/29/2003 Pease Auditorium New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players
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Gilbert and Sullivan


Bird-Watcher"; and The Two Ronnies' 1973 Christmas Special. Other comedians have used Gilbert and Sullivan songs as a key part of their routines, including Hinge and Bracket, Anna Russell, and the "HMS Yakko" episode of the animated TV series "Animaniacs". Songs from Gilbert and Sullivan are often pastiched in advertising, and elaborate advertising parodies have been published, as have the likenesses of various Gilbert and Sullivan performers throughout the decades. Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas are commonly referenced in literature, film and
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Osbert Lancaster


and stylised his own persona – "bristling moustache, check suits, shirt and tie in bold tints" – created similarly stylised characters for his cartoons, achieving "the traditional dramatic effectiveness of a greatly extended cast for a commedia dell'arte performance". Lancaster's career designing for the theatre began and ended with Gilbert and Sullivan. His first costumes and scenery were for the Sadler's Wells Ballet's "Pineapple Poll" (1951), John Cranko's ballet with a story based on a Gilbert poem and music by Sullivan.
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Muriel Brunskill


the Adelphi Theatre from June to October 1950, and in the film "The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan" in 1953. In 1956–1957 she appeared in a Gilbert and Sullivan tour in Australia and New Zealand. Though best known for oratorio and opera, Brunskill was also admired for her song recitals. "The Times" said, "As a recitalist she excelled in the songs of Schubert, Brahms and those of contemporary English composers. Her voice, even throughout all registers... was capable of many and expressive nuances."
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H.M.S. Pinafore


H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. "H.M.S. Pinafore" was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation. The story takes place aboard the ship HMS "Pinafore". The captain
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Star Trek


world of "Star Trek" has played in Los Angeles and was attended by series luminaries Nichelle Nichols, D.C. Fontana and David Gerrold. A similar blend of Gilbert and Sullivan and "Star Trek" was presented as a benefit concert in San Francisco by the Lamplighters in 2009. The show was titled "Star Drek: The Generation After That". It presented an original story with Gilbert and Sullivan melodies. Both "The Simpsons" and "Futurama" television series and others have had many individual episodes parodying "Star Trek
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Portsmouth


otherwise known as "Spice Island" in Old Portsmouth. The overture was used for the BBC Proms Concert in 2007. "H.M.S. Pinafore" is a comic opera in two acts set in Portsmouth Harbour, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W.S. Gilbert. John Cranko's 1951 ballet "Pineapple Poll", which features the operetta music of "The Bumboat Woman's Story" by Gilbert and Sullivan, is also set in Portsmouth. Portsmouth hosts yearly remembrances of the D-Day landings, which veterans from Allied and
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Strike Up the Band (musical)


in Philadelphia, fulfilling original librettist's George S. Kaufman's definition of satire as "what closes on Saturday night." The original is heavily influenced by Gilbert and Sullivan. The Gershwins revised the story with Ryskind for the 1930 Broadway run; they also removed the song "The Man I Love", now a Gershwin standard, from the show. They added a dozen new songs and rewrote the lyrics or even changed the melodies of many of the 1927 songs. The new score is less Gilbert-and-Sullivan and
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Gilbert and Sullivan for All


Gilbert and Sullivan for All was a touring concert and opera company, formed in 1963 by D'Oyly Carte Opera Company performers Thomas Round and Donald Adams and former director Norman Meadmore, and which exclusively performed the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, usually in concert, but sometimes giving full productions. They also recorded most of the Savoy operas both on video and audio. They continued to tour into the 1980s, occasionally reuniting for performances thereafter. Gilbert and Sullivan for All gave concert performances of highlights from the Savoy operas of Gilbert and Sullivan
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National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company


all over the world. On weekends, however, the festival offers professional performances given by companies such as the Carl Rosa Opera Company, Opera della Luna, the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Charles Court Opera, and the festival's own National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company. In 1995, the operators of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival formed an opera company to provide festivalgoers with professional productions of the Savoy operas. The company was soon called the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company. It engaged such performers as Richard Suart
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International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival


scholarly symposia, and rarely revived works by Gilbert or separately by Sullivan are also seen. There is also a G&S memorabilia fair, providing a chance for collectors and gift hunters to buy and sell G&S recordings, DVDs, books, scores, figurines and other items of interest. Fringe events also include recitals, concerts, lectures and productions of lesser-known works by Gilbert without Sullivan, Sullivan without Gilbert, works that played as companion pieces with the Gilbert and Sullivan operas during their original productions and other Victorian and Edwardian works
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Daniel J. Lockwood


The Rose of Persia MendicantBR 1/9/2007 New York City Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Mikado Nanki-PooBR 1/7/2007 New York City Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players Yeomen of the Guard First YeomanBR 1/6/2007 New York City Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Mikado Nanki-PooBR 1/5/2007 New York City Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players Yeomen of the Guard First YeomanBR 11/26/2006 Mahaffey Theatre New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Mikado Nanki-PooBR 11/25/2006 Mahaffey Theatre New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Mikado Nanki-PooBR 6/3/2006
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& Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 2/5/2003 Branscomb Auditorium New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance FredericBR 2/1/2003 Amoss Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (Understudy) & EnsembleBR 1/31/2003 Chapel Hill Hall New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (Understudy) & EnsembleBR 1/30/2003 Greenwood-Lander Performing Arts Cultural Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (Understudy) & EnsembleBR 1/29/2003 Peace Center New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players The Pirates of Penzance Frederic (
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William Gilbert (author)


William Gilbert (20 May 1804 – 3 January 1890) was an English writer and Royal Navy surgeon. He wrote a considerable number of novels, biographies, histories, essays (especially about the dangers of alcohol and the plight of the poor) and popular fantasy stories, mostly in the 1860s and 1870s. Some of these have been reprinted in recent decades and are still available today. He is best remembered, however, as the father of dramatist W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan. Gilbert was born at Bishopstoke,
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Sweethearts (play)


room ballad of the same name was created in 1875 to help advertise the play, based on the story-line of the play, with music by the composer who would go on to become Gilbert's most famous collaborator, Arthur Sullivan. It is one of only three Gilbert and Sullivan songs that were not part of a larger work. Act I – 1844 A stiff Victorian youth, "Harry" Spreadbrow, has been suddenly called away to India and must leave immediately. He visits his childhood friend, a delicate if
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Phyllis Ann Karr


She lives in Drummond Wisconsin. Karr's primary literary interests, reflected in both her fiction and non-fiction, include Arthurian legend, William Shakespeare, the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and L. Frank Baum's Oz books. Her early works, including literary articles, poetry, and fantasy and mystery short stories, began appearing in the 1970s. Her short works have been published in "Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine", "Weird Tales", "Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine", "The Gilbert & Sullivan
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Julien Nitzberg


music director. The Beastly Bombing was inspired by such works of Gilbert and Sullivan as "The Pirates of Penzance", Nitzberg decided to craft a plot revolving around lovable terrorists, portraying them in the same spirit as Gilbert and Sullivan's lovable pirates. "The Beastly Bombing" told the story of two Al Qaeda terrorists who show up in New York to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. Getting to the bridge they discover two Timothy McVeigh-inspired white supremacists who have shown up at the same time with the same plan.
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Topsy-Turvy


Topsy-Turvy is a 1999 British musical drama film written and directed by Mike Leigh, starring Allan Corduner as Sir Arthur Sullivan and Jim Broadbent as W. S. Gilbert, along with Timothy Spall and Lesley Manville. The story concerns the 15-month period in 1884 and 1885 leading up to the premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado". The film focuses on the creative conflict between playwright and composer, and their decision to continue their partnership, which led to their creation of several more Savoy Operas. The film was not
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