* 1861 – First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

In 1919, Harold Abrahams ( Ben Cross ) enters the University of Cambridge, where he experiences anti-Semitism from the staff, but enjoys participating in the Gilbert and Sullivan club.

Although focused on his running, he falls in love with a leading Gilbert and Sullivan soprano, Sybil ( Alice Krige ).

* 1946 – Gilbert O ' Sullivan, Irish singer

* 1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis.

In 1960, Groucho, a lifelong devotee of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, appeared as Koko the Lord High Executioner in a televised production of The Mikado on NBC's Bell Telephone Hour.

Category: People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert ( 1836 – 1911 ) and the composer Arthur Sullivan ( 1842 – 1900 ).

Gilbert and Sullivan introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century.

Producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration.

Ages Ago, during the rehearsals for which Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to Sullivan

At a rehearsal for one of these entertainments, Ages Ago ( 1869 ), the composer Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to his friend, the young composer Arthur Sullivan.

Two years later, Gilbert and Sullivan would write their first work together.

In 1871, producer John Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to produce a Christmas entertainment, Thespis, at his Gaiety Theatre, a large West End house.

Unlike the later Gilbert and Sullivan works, it was hastily prepared, and its nature was more risqué, like Gilbert's earlier burlesques, with a broader style of comedy that allowed for improvisation by the actors.

Over the next four years, Gilbert and Sullivan did not have occasion to work together again, but each man became more eminent in his field.

Gilbert already had available the libretto he had written for Rosa, and Carte suggested that Sullivan write the score.

After the success of Trial by Jury, Gilbert and Sullivan were suddenly in demand to write more operas together.

Carte proposed a revival of Thespis for the 1875 Christmas season, which Gilbert and Sullivan would have revised, but he was unable to obtain financing for the project.

In early 1876, Carte requested that Gilbert and Sullivan create another one-act opera on the theme of burglars, but this was never completed.

He assembled a syndicate and formed the Comedy Opera Company, with Gilbert and Sullivan commissioned to write a comic opera that would serve as the centrepiece for an evening's entertainment.

Gilbert and Sullivan were tireless taskmasters, seeing to it that The Sorcerer opened as a fully polished production, in marked contrast to the under-rehearsed Thespis.

The " patter " baritone ( or " principal comedian ", as these roles later were called ) would often assume the leading role in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and was usually allotted the speedy patter songs.

In 1899 Bell's son-in-law Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor was named the first full-time editor of National Geographic Magazine and served the organization for fifty-five years ( 1954 ), and members of the Grosvenor family have played important roles in the organization since.

Through the process of correspondent inference ( Gilbert, 1998 ), division of labor led to gender roles, or gender stereotype.

DiCaprio obtained recognition for his subsequent work in supporting roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape ( 1993 ) and Marvin's Room ( 1996 ), as well as leading roles in The Basketball Diaries ( 1995 ) and Romeo + Juliet ( 1996 ), before achieving international fame in James Cameron's Titanic ( 1997 ).

She demonstrated loyalty to John Gilbert, whose career was faltering, and insisted, despite Mayer's objection, that he co-star in Queen Christina in which she played one of her most celebrated roles.

All of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas have at least one lead lyric tenor character ; other notable roles are:

Some of the most famous included Larry Storch, Dallas McKennon ( best known as the voice of Archie in the Archie cartoon and as Cincinnatus, in the Daniel Boone TV series ), Adam West and Burt Ward ( who recreated their roles as " Batman and Robin " from their 1960s live-action series for Filmation's 1977 animated incarnation ), Jane Webb, and good friends and colleagues Ed Asner and Linda Gary ( Gary voiced a majority of Filmation's work in the 1980s ), along with John Erwin ( voice of Reggie Mantle, and later the voice of He-Man ), Alan Oppenheimer ( character actor in TV and film ), Ted Knight, George DiCenzo ( John BlackStar, Hordak, Bow on She-ra ), Melendy Britt, Howard Morris, Pat Fraley, Charlie Adler, Ed Gilbert, Susan Blu, Erika Scheimer ( daughter of Lou Scheimer ), and even Lou Scheimer himself ( either uncredited, or under the pseudonym of " Erik ( sometimes " Eric ") Gunden ").

It was remade for television in 1979, with Patty Duke as Sullivan, Melissa Gilbert as Helen Keller, and Diana Muldaur and Charles Siebert in supporting roles.

The show also drew many well-known or then up-and-coming actors and actresses for single guest starring roles, such as Don Ameche, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Ken Berry, Sonny Bono, Eddie Bracken, Joseph Campanella, Virginia Capers, Rosalind Cash, George Clooney, Polly Holliday, Robert Culp, Ruby Dee, the Del Rubio triplets, Jeane Dixon, Anne Francis, Johnny Gilbert, Jack Gilford, Alice Ghostley, Peter Graves, Merv Griffin, George Grizzard, Gary Grubbs, Bob Hope, Julio Iglesias, Freddie Jackson, Tony Jay, Billy Jayne, Gordon Jump, Paula Kelly, Alan King, David Leisure, Jenny Lewis, Hal Linden, Mark Linn-Baker, Mario Lopez, Edie McClurg, Marian Mercer, Martin Mull, Leslie Nielsen, Jerry Orbach, Leland Orser, Tony Plana, Peggy Pope, Joe Regalbuto, Burt Reynolds, Debbie Reynolds, Donnelly Rhodes, Richard Riehle, Alex Rocco, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Harry Shearer, McLean Stevenson, Inga Swenson, Jeffrey Tambor, Meshach Taylor, Jay Thomas, Alex Trebek, Dick Van Dyke, Tom Villard, Lyle Waggoner, David Wayne and Fred Willard.

On October 24, 1904, at the New Lyceum Theatre, Mrs. Gilbert made her first appearance as a star, being then in the eighty-second year of her age, in a play, by Clyde Fitch, called Granny with a young Marie Doro in one of her earliest roles.

* Gilbert was part of a remarkable generation of Devonshire men, who combined the roles of adventurer, writer, soldier and mariner-often in ways as equally loathsome as admirable.

He created all nine of the lead comic baritone roles in Gilbert and Sullivan's famous Savoy Operas in London from 1877 to 1889, including the pompous First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter, in H. M. S.

Grossmith was followed, in the Gilbert and Sullivan comic roles, by a number of other popular performers, including Henry Lytton, Martyn Green, Peter Pratt, John Reed, and many others, who each owed a debt to Grossmith as the creator of the roles.

Several of the actors chosen went on to create principal roles in most of the later Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

He is especially associated with the comic baritone roles in recordings of the Gilbert & Sullivan operas.

In 1987, Warlow also performed a one-man show originally written for John Reed, called A Song to Sing, O, about George Grossmith, the comedian who originated the principal comic roles for Gilbert and Sullivan from 1877 through the 1880s.

Many of the plots revolved around silly action genre clichés and movie parodies, with many of the feature roles played by actors and celebrities such as Mark Hamill, Alan Thicke, Erik Estrada, Gary Coleman, John Salley, Joey Buttafuoco, Patty Hearst, Adam Carolla, Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf, George Takei, Gilbert Gottfried, Walter Koenig, Pat Morita, Anson Williams, Christopher Darden, Maureen McCormick, Lee Majors, David Arquette, Musetta Vander, Angelica Bridges, Ian Ziering, RuPaul, and Dweezil Zappa.

Nicholas Young and Philip Gilbert reprised their roles as John and TIM, with Helen Goldwyn and James Daniel Wilson appearing as Elena and Paul, the new Tomorrow People.

This followed with major roles in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Natural Born Killers, The Evening Star, Kalifornia, and From Dusk Till Dawn.

Ross is a member of the Seattle Gilbert and Sullivan Society, and has regularly appeared in their summer performances at Seattle Center, playing over 25 roles with the company.

He is known among G & S fans as an excellent character actor, usually portraying the famous Gilbert & Sullivan " patter " roles.

Bourchier was noted for roles both in classical drama, particularly Shakespeare, and in contemporary plays, including works by W. S. Gilbert, Anthony Hope, Arthur Wing Pinero and Alfred Sutro.