Sullivan soon became a powerful starmaker in the entertainment world himself, becoming one of Winchell's main rivals, setting the El Morocco nightclub in New York as his unofficial headquarters against Winchell's seat of power at the nearby Stork Club.

In 1948, the CBS network hired Sullivan to do a weekly Sunday night TV variety show, Toast of the Town, which later became The Ed Sullivan Show.

In the 1950s and 1960s, Sullivan was a respected starmaker because of the number of performers that became household names after appearing on the show.

When Elvis Presley became popular, Sullivan was wary of the singer's bad-boy style and said that he would never invite Presley on his program.

However, Presley became too big a name to ignore, and Sullivan scheduled him to appear on September 9, 1956.

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.

Nevertheless, Pirates was a hit both in New York, again spawning numerous imitators, and then in London, and it became one of the most frequently performed, translated and parodied Gilbert and Sullivan works, also enjoying a successful 1981 Broadway revival by Joseph Papp.

In fact, when Sullivan was trying to teach Keller the word for " mug ", Keller became so frustrated she broke the doll.

In 1875, however, producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte reunited Gilbert and Sullivan to create a one-act piece, Trial by Jury, which became a surprise hit.

Carte used his profits from the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership to build the Savoy Theatre in 1881, and their joint works then became known as the Savoy operas.

Young Sullivan became proficient with many of the instruments in the band and had composed an anthem, " By the waters of Babylon ", by the age of eight.

Despite concerns that Sullivan at nearly 12 years of age was too old to give much service as a treble before his voice broke, he was accepted and soon became a soloist and, by 1856, was promoted to " first boy ".

During his years in Germany, Sullivan became friendly with the composer Franz Liszt, the singer and later impresario Carl Rosa, and the violinist Joseph Joachim.

After promotional efforts by Carte and Sullivan, who included some of the Pinafore music in several promenade concerts at Covent Garden, Pinafore became a hit.

From 1 August 1879, the new company, later called the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, became the sole authorised producer of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.

Carte's assistant, Helen Lenoir, who became his wife in 1888, made fifteen visits to America in the 1880s and 1890s to promote Carte's interests, superintending arrangements for American productions and tours of each of the new Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

By the 20th century some librettists became recognized as part of famous collaborations, as with Gilbert and Sullivan or Rodgers and Hammerstein.

Their drivers included Keke Rosberg ( who later became World Champion on the Williams Saudia F1 Team ), Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Randolph Townsend, Mike Brockman, Howdy Holmes, Teo Fabi, Patrick Depailler, Danny Sullivan, Bobby Rahal, Johnny Parson Jr., among others.

He is mentioned in the lyrics of the song " I May Be Wrong ( But I Think You're Wonderful )" by Harry Sullivan and Harry Ruskin, written in 1929, which became the theme song of the Apollo Theater in New York, and which was recorded by many artists including Doris Day in 1950.

Dulles also became a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, an international law firm.

The theatre opened on 10 October 1881 and was built by Richard D ' Oyly Carte on the site of the old Savoy Palace as a showcase for the popular series of comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, which became known as the Savoy Operas as a result.

Before 2010, commissioners were elected on a nonpartisan basis, but Sullivan County's commission election became a partisan election in 2010 after the county Republican Party decided to conduct a primary election for commission seats.

The land which became Sullivan County was originally purchased from the Iroquois by the Province of Pennsylvania in 1768, as part of the first Treaty of Fort Stanwix.

Beginning in 1919, he took part in an extensive series of musically complete recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas with members of the D ' Oyly Carte Opera Company, under the supervision of Rupert D ' Oyly Carte, and conducted by HMV staff conductor George W. Byng.

The copyright on Sullivan's music expired in 1950, and Mackerras, then assistant conductor and repetiteur for Sadler's Wells Opera, aware of the successful ballets based on Offenbach and Strauss-Gaîté Parisienne and Le Beau Danube-felt a similar arrangement of the music of Sullivan would be equally popular.

At Harvard he was music director of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals and conductor of both the Harvard University Band and the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players.

Adrian's musical numbers included " Prehistoric Complaint " ( as a misfit caveman ), " Excelsior " ( as a put-upon Sherpa ), " Guide to Britten " ( as a manic conductor ), " In the D ' Oyly Cart " (( sic ) as a jaded Gilbert and Sullivan performer ), and " Surly Girls " ( as headmistress of St. Trinian's ).

Alfred Cellier was a conductor of a series of promenade concerts at the Queen's Theatre, Long Acre and, in 1878 – 1879 he was joint conductor, with Sullivan, of the Covent Garden Promenade Concerts.

In 1879, he travelled with Gilbert, Sullivan, and Carte to America, where he acted as conductor for Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance, with Carte's first American touring company.

In 1880, Sullivan wrote the cantata The Martyr of Antioch, presented at the Leeds Triennial Music Festival, with a libretto modified by Gilbert from an 1822 epic poem by Henry Hart Milman concerning the martyrdom of St. Margaret of Antioch in the 3rd century.

Sullivan finished some of the composition by early September when he had to begin preparations for his conducting duties at the triennial Leeds Festival, held in October.

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Stack competed for the starting position with Neil Sullivan, Tony Warner and Casper Ankergren at various points of the season, but Leeds were relegated at the end of the season.

Following their relegation to the Football League One Leeds struggled to hang on to their players with the likes of David Healy, Richard Cresswell, Neil Sullivan and Kevin Nicholls all leaving the club.

However, on 4 August 2006, Leeds United signed Warner on a one-month loan, as cover for the injured Neil Sullivan.

The festival regularly attracts widely respected jazz musicians including Gary Burton, Bill Evans, Rufus Reid, Lewis Nash, Michael Brecker, Stanley Jordan, Eric Marienthal, Bobby Sanabria, Chris Potter, Benny Green, Charlie Byrd, Ira Sullivan and Slide Hampton.

Speakers at the 2012 festival were Jennifer Hintenberger, Douglas McNish, Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan and Marni Wasserman.

At the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England, he played the role of Rudolph in the company's The Grand Duke in 1999 and also appeared at the festival in 1996.

Music was written for the festival by Mendelssohn, Gounod, Sullivan, Dvořák, Bantock and most notably Elgar, who wrote four of his most famous choral pieces for Birmingham.

Celebrating the timeless, waspishly satirical lyrics of W. S. Gilbert and the brilliant musical inventiveness of Arthur Sullivan, the festival is quite simply the world ’ s biggest event dedicated to the Savoy operas.

Liking what he witnessed at a downtown festival, Sullivan asked Moth to be the first band signed to his new label, Hey Domingo !.