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.

A similar device is used in the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance: As a child, Frederic was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.

Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado are among the best known.

The musical score to Thespis was never published and is now lost, except for one song that was published separately, a chorus that was re-used in The Pirates of Penzance, and the Act II ballet music.

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

The Pirates of Penzance ( New Year's Eve, 1879 ) also poked fun at grand opera conventions, sense of duty, family obligation, the " respectability " of civilisation and the peerage, and the relevance of a liberal education.

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.

Falk's first stage appearance was at the age of 12 in The Pirates of Penzance at Camp High Point in upstate New York, where one of his camp counselors was Ross Martin ( they would later act together in The Great Race and the Columbo episode " Suitable For Framing ").

Thus, the paradox of Frederic's birthday in The Pirates of Penzance establishes the surprising fact that a twenty-one-year-old would have had only five birthdays, if he was born on a leap day.

A notable exception is his song " The Elements ", where he sets the names of the chemical elements to the tune of the " Major-General's Song " from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance.

In 1982, Curry took the part of the Pirate King in the Drury Lane production of Joe Papp's version of The Pirates of Penzance opposite George Cole, earning enthusiastic reviews.

* December 30 – The Pirates of Penzance is first performed in Paignton, Devon, England.

* February 29 – Frederic, Fictional character in The Pirates of Penzance

Those two operas, Così fan tutte, and Don Giovanni, as well as Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance are among the core inspirations for the piece.

Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado, continue to enjoy regular performances throughout the English-speaking world.

Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado.

Pinafore became an international sensation, as did The Pirates of Penzance ( 1879 ) and Patience ( 1881 ).

In an effort to head off unauthorised American productions of their next opera, The Pirates of Penzance, Carte and his partners opened it in New York on 31 December 1879, prior to its 1880 London premiere.

The Pirates of Penzance ; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.

The Pirates of Penzance was the only Gilbert and Sullivan opera to have its official premiere in the United States.

Because the work was premiered in three different places, there are more variations in the early libretto and score of The Pirates of Penzance than in other Gilbert and Sullivan works.

" My eyes are fully open " ( with some changed lyrics ) was used in Papp's production of The Pirates of Penzance.

Pinafores extraordinary popularity in Britain, America and elsewhere was followed by the similar success of a series of Gilbert and Sullivan works, including The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado.

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.

This was unexpected and forced Gilbert and Sullivan to race to complete and rehearse their new opera, The Pirates of Penzance, which premièred with much success on 31 December.

Radio broadcasts had not begun and most devotees of baseball attended the games near home, in the town park or a pasture, with perhaps two or three trips to the city each season to see the Cubs or the Pirates or the Indians or the Red Sox.

Tonight at 8 o'clock the Cardinals, who gave the Pirates as much trouble as anyone did in 1960, breaking even with them, will get their first 1961 shot at baseball's world champions.

Bill Mazeroski with and Hal Smith with were the only Pirates dragging their feet.

Capp is often associated with two other giants of the medium: Milton Caniff ( Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon ) and Walt Kelly ( Pogo ).

He has appeared as the main subject on the cover eight times in total ; seven with the Giants and once with the Pirates.

Strips such as The Phantom and Terry and the Pirates began appearing in a format of two strips to a page in full-size newspapers, such as the New Orleans Times Picayune, or with one strip on a tabloid page, as in the Chicago Sun-Times.

The Indians also have a rivalry with the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the two teams play an annual three game series during interleague play in June, playing in Cleveland during even numbered years, and in Pittsburgh in odd number seasons.

The ' 38 club saw Dizzy Dean lead the team's pitching staff and provided a historic moment when they won a crucial late-season game at Wrigley Field over the Pittsburgh Pirates with a walk-off home run by Gabby Hartnett, which became known in baseball lore as " The Homer in the Gloamin '".

Most notably, they traded with the Pittsburgh Pirates for outfielder Kenny Lofton and third baseman Aramis Ramirez, and rode dominant pitching, led by Kerry Wood and Mark Prior, as the Cubs led the division down the stretch.

Greenberg was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1947, became the very first baseball player to earn over $ 80, 000 / year in salary ( he was paid $ 100, 000, ($ today ) plus $ 25, 000 that his contract with Detroit called for in the event they sold or traded him ).

Greenberg with the Pirates in 1947.

Starring as a first baseman and outfielder with the Tigers ( 1930, 1933 – 46 ) and doing duty only briefly with the Pirates ( 1947 ), Greenberg played only nine full seasons.

To celebrate the successful 1982 Milwaukee Brewers team, the franchise decided to have the 2007 season be named as the " 25th Anniversary of ' 82 ", with more fan giveaways than any other Major League Baseball team except the Pittsburgh Pirates, and more discounts and deals than any other time in Brewers ' history.

They first swept the Pittsburgh Pirates, thanks to walk-off home runs by Prince Fielder and Ryan Braun, tying the New York Mets for the Wild Card lead with 3 games to go against the NL Central division champion Chicago Cubs.

The Pirates have had many ups and downs during their long history, most famously winning the 1960 World Series on a game winning homerun by Bill Mazeroski, the only time that Game 7 of the World Series has ever ended with a home run.

After a run of regular-season success in the early 1990s ( making the NLCS three straight years ), the Pirates have struggled in recent decades, with 20 consecutive losing seasons to date, the longest in North American professional sports history.

Roberto Clemente Walker ( August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972 ) was a Puerto Rican baseball player whose Major League career comprised the 18 seasons stretching from 1955 through 1972, all of them played with the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder.

" Sukeforth noticed that Clemente was being used as a bench player for the team and discussed the possibility of drafting Clemente to the Pirates with the team's manager, Max Macon.

In the nightcap came his first extra-base hit, a 6th-inning double, as well as another single, which, in conjunction with aggressive base-running, triggered a 2-run, 8th-inning rally, narrowing the Dodgers ' lead to one ; one inning later, the Pirates ' comeback would fall one run short, with the go-ahead run on base, and Clemente on deck.

The day after their doubleheader loss, the Pirates traveled to New York's Polo Grounds, where Roberto, having just achieved some measure of vindication against the team that let him get away, now had a chance to compete against his two great baseball heroes, both his boyhood idol Monte Irvin and his recently acquired friend and mentor ( not to mention teammate, with the 1954-55 Caribbean Champion Santurce Crabbers ), Willie Mays, both of whom now patrolled the outfield of the defending World Champion New York Giants, with whom the Pirates now began a four-game series, hoping to pick up their first win of 1955.