Our 67th production and the seventh time we've produced "HMS Pinafore". As on all but one of the the previous productions, this was a double bill with "Trial by Jury".
Take a look at our previous productions of "HMS Pinafore".
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor first opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation.
In 1945, George S. Kaufman adopted HMS Pinafore to produce "Hollywood Pinafore" (with a secondary title of The Lad Who Loved a Salary). The adaptation transplants the maritime satire of the original Pinafore to a satire of the glamorous world of 1940s Hollywood film making, but Sullivan's score is retained with minor adaptations. It includes numbers such as "Little Butter-Up, "An Agent's Lot is Not a Happy One" and "I'm a Big Director at Pinafore".
First Lord's Sisters, his Cousins, his Aunts, and Sailors
Liz Blount, Stephen Briggs, Alison Burton, Helen Carbutt,
Clive Daniel, Jennifer Day, Lyndsey Hall, AJ Jno-Baptiste,
Rita Jno-Baptiste, Tony Johnson, Roger Middleton, Debbie Moores,
Martina O'Rourke, Deirdre O'Shea, Eoin O'Shea, Carol Parkinson,
Catherine Roberts, Kathryn Thurman
"The Englishman"
