Pinafore ( 1878 ), satirising the rise of unqualified people to positions of authority and poking good-natured fun at the Royal Navy and the English obsession with social status ( building on a theme introduced in The Sorcerer, love between members of different social classes ).

Gilbert had referred to the new technology in Pinafore in 1878, only two years after the device was invented and before London even had telephone service.

Pinafore in 1878. Business for the new opera was slow at first.

After the success of Pinafore, Gilbert was eager to get started on the next opera, and he began working on the libretto in December 1878.

Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan visited Portsmouth in April 1878 to inspect ships.

Pinafore opened on 25 May 1878 at the Opera Comique.

Pinafore opened on 25 May 1878 at the Opera Comique, before an enthusiastic audience, with Sullivan conducting.

In late August 1878, Sullivan used some of the Pinafore music, arranged by his assistant Hamilton Clarke, during several successful promenade concerts at Covent Garden that generated interest and stimulated ticket sales.

Meanwhile, numerous pirated versions of Pinafore began playing in America with great success, beginning with a production in Boston that opened on 25 November 1878.

Approximately 150 unauthorised productions of Pinafore sprang up in the United States in 1878 and 1879, and none of these paid royalties to the authors.

At least one D ' Oyly Carte company, and sometimes as many as three, played Pinafore under Carte's aegis every year between 1878 and 1888, including its first London revival in 1887.

Pinafore, or The Lass that Loved a Sailor ( 1878 )

Pinafore in 1878, and Alfred Cellier and B. C. Stephenson's 1886 hit, Dorothy, ran for 931 performances.

Pinafore ( 1878 ), the Major-General in The Pirates of Penzance ( 1880 ) and Ko-Ko in The Mikado ( 1885 – 87 ).

Pinafore ( 1878 ); Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, who is an expert at everything except " military knowledge " ( 1880 ); the aesthetic poet, Reginald Bunthorne in Patience ( 1881 ); the love-lonely Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe ( 1882 ); the sarcastic cripple, King Gama, in Princess Ida ( 1884 ); Ko-Ko the cheap tailor, elevated to the post of Lord High Executioner, in The Mikado ( 1885 ); the accursed Robin Oakapple in Ruddigore ( 1887 ); and the pathetic jester, Jack Point, in The Yeomen of the Guard ( 1888 ).

Over Christmas 1878, during the run of Pinafore, the theatre was renovated and redecorated by E. W. Bradwell, reopening on 1 February 1879.

; a Children's Pinafore with an entirely juvenile cast ( 1878 ); In the Sulks ( 1880 ); and Uncle Samuel ( 1881 ).

Pinafore in 1878, were imported to New York ( by the authors and also in numerous pirated productions ).

Pinafore, 1878, m Arthur Sullivan, lb W. S. Gilbert ( 571 in London ) ( first G & S smash hit and second longest-running piece of musical theatre in history until it was edged out by Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience in 1881.

In 1878 Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta HMS Pinafore, or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor was staged.

It has been claimed that Smith's appointment was the inspiration for the character of Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, in Gilbert and Sullivan's 1878 comic opera, H. M. S. Pinafore ).

Pinafore in 1878, which was a satire of the blue pottery craze.

Pinafore at the Opera Comique in 1878 and on tour.

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

Pinafore " / " Trial by Jury " — Opera Australia production ( 2005 )

Pinafore ran in London for 571 performances, the second longest run of any musical theatre piece in history up to that time ( after the operetta Les cloches de Corneville ).

In Pinafore, Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte used several of the principal cast members that they had assembled for The Sorcerer.

The contract between Gilbert and Sullivan and the Comedy Opera Company gave the latter the right to present Pinafore for the duration of the initial run.

Hoping to join in on the profits to be made in America from Pinafore, Carte left in June for New York to make arrangements for an " authentic " production there to be rehearsed personally by the author and composer.

He arranged to rent a theatre and auditioned chorus members for the American production of Pinafore and a new Gilbert and Sullivan opera to be premiered in New York, and for tours.

They made a special effort to claim American rights for their next work after Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, by giving the official premiere in New York.

Gilbert, Sullivan and Carte met by 24 April 1879 to make plans for a production of Pinafore in America.

Pinafore opened in New York on 1 December 1879 ( with Gilbert onstage in the chorus ) and ran for the rest of December.

1880 programme for Carte's Children's Pinafore

In the winter of 1940 – 41, the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company's scenery and costumes for Pinafore and three other operas were destroyed by German bombs during World War II.

Pinafore in its entirety as a last request for Bart.

The Pinafore is at its starbase being readied for further space exploration.

Pinafore, which became a nearly unprecedented hit, running for 571 performances.

They were followed by a spoof called The Wreck of the Pinafore by H. Lingard and Luscombe Searelle, described by The Era as " chiefly remarkable for its impudence ", which ran until October.

This team is responsible for Watermill productions of ' Pinafore Swing ', ' A Star Danced ' and ' Ten Cents a Dance ', and more recently with the highly successful Sweeney Todd and Mack and Mabel both of which have gone on from the Watermill to tour the UK and transfer to the West End.

Pinafore to stall for time as the houseboat floats to Springfield.

Pinafore in its entirety as a last request for Bart.

He has also created choreography for several productions in the Washington D. C. area including < i > Man of La Mancha </ i > for The Washington Savoyards, < i > Noël & Gertie </ i > for MetroStage, < i > Polaroid Stories </ i > for The Studio Theatre, < i > Jesus Christ Superstar </ i > for Open Circle Theatre ( 4 Helen Hayes Award nominations, including Outstanding Resident Musical ), < i > Dorothy Meets Alice </ i > and < i > Winnie The Pooh </ i > for Adventure Theatre, < i > Flora The Red Menace </ i > for 1st Stage, < i > Hollywood Pinafore </ i > for The American Century Theater and many other regional productions along the east coast.