It produced full scale productions of popular musicals and operettas including Oklahoma !, Carousel, The Mikado, Guys and Dolls, The Pirates of Penzance, Me and My Girl, My Fair Lady, The Yeoman of the Guard, Gigi, Fiddler on the Roof, The Gondoliers, Anything Goes, The Merry Widow, Iolanthe, The Producers and HMS Pinafore.

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 ).

Pinafore, then join the army as Major-General Stanley in The Pirates of Penzance, and so on.

Pinafore and played the first violin on the American tour of Jacques Offenbach.

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 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.

Carte put the matter beyond doubt by taking a six-month personal lease of the theatre beginning on 1 February 1879, the date of its re-opening, when Pinafore resumed.

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.

Pinafore became a source of popular quotations on both sides of the Atlantic, such as the exchange:

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.

Sullivan, as had been arranged with Carte and Gilbert, gave notice to the partners of the Comedy Opera Company in early July 1879 that he, Gilbert and Carte would not be renewing the contract to produce Pinafore with them and that he would be withdrawing his music from the Comedy Opera Company on 31 July.

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

The unauthorised juvenile productions of Pinafore were so popular that Carte mounted his own children's version, played at matinees at the Opera Comique beginning on 16 December 1879.

The D ' Oyly Carte company performed Pinafore before Queen Elizabeth II and the royal family at Windsor Castle on 16 June 1977, during the queen's Silver Jubilee year, the first royal command performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera since 1891.

Pinafore in " Cape Feare " was later included on the album Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons, and the song " The Very Reason That I Live " from " The Great Louse Detective " was included on The Simpsons: Testify.

One of the songs on this album is a fat man's lament, " I'm Called Little Butterball ," parodying " I'm Called Little Buttercup " from Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta HMS Pinafore.

His Cups and Saucers was revived and played with Pinafore and also played by the company on tour.

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

I am detaining the parts of Pinafore, so that the directors shall not take them away from the Comique tomorrow, and I base my claim on the precedent you set.

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.

There are some wonderful tunes, including the ' Mary Poppins '- ish ' Cut Every Corner ,' Bart and Sideshow Bob performing the score to ' HMS Pinafore ,' the SUV parody commercial ' Canyonero ,' and Homer and Marge's take on the All in the Family theme [...], but too much of it is filler.

Pinafore, the D ' Oyly Carte repertory and production system was cemented, and each opera would make use of these stock character types.

Pinafore, the character of Buttercup reveals that, when a baby farmer, she had switched two babies of different social classes.

* Buttercup, a character in HMS Pinafore

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 ).

" However, the character was seen as a reflection on Smith and even Disraeli was overheard to refer to his First Lord as " Pinafore Smith ".

It has been suggested that the Pinafore character was as much based on Smith's controversial predecessor as First Lord, Hugh Childers, as on Smith himself.

Pinafore ( especially its character Little Buttercup ) was also based, in part, on this story.

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.

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.

Among the notable roles that Abbott sang with the company are Juliette in Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, Virginia in Paul et Virginie, Josephine in H. M. S. Pinafore, the title role in Flotow's Martha, Amina in Bellini's La Sonnambula, and Violetta in La Traviata, a role which she apparently no longer objected to, however, instead of singing Addio del passato, she made Violeta expire with Nearer, my God, to Thee.

Among the professional repertory companies continuing to present Pinafore regularly in the U. S. are Opera a la Carte, based in California, Ohio Light Opera and the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, which tours the opera annually and often includes it in its New York seasons.

Pinafore and The Mikado, and adaptations of Karl Millöcker's operettas, such as Der Bettelstudent, or Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, all of which became popular in America.

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.

Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, which became popular around the world.

As well as musicals, season's in the late 2000's usually saw a Shakespeare play in conjunction with the Watermill based Propeller company, directed by Edward Hall, often in a reinterpreted format, and a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, again a re-arranged version which may only superficially resemble the original, sometimes even the title was altered ( such as ' Pinafore Swing '; an actor musician version of HMS Pinafore with music arranged by Sarah Travis, and the more recent Hot Mikado ; a condensed actor musician version of the already existing Hot Mikado, which in turn is a jazzed up version of the Gilbert and Sullivan comedy opera The Mikado !).

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

He appeared on Loose Women on 19 March 2009 to discuss his part as Sir Joseph Porter in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta HMS Pinafore, which toured the United Kingdom during the spring and summer of 2009.

It may have been adapted from a New York music-hall song " Every Inch a Sailor ", which itself was a burlesque of " HMS Pinafore ".

Pinafore ( 1878 — for which he wrote the overture, based on themes from the opera ), Trial by Jury ( 1878 ), George Grossmith's Cups and Saucers ( 1878 – 79 ), and three of his own one-act works: Dora's Dream ( 1877 – 78 revival ), The Spectre Knight ( 1878 ), and After All!

Cellier was conducting the performance of Pinafore during which the partners of The Comedy Opera Company attempted to repossess the set, and he was noted for his attempts to calm the audience during the fracas.