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The credits for this production have not yet been completed or verified.
H.M.S. Pinafore
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| First Preview: | Total Previews: | ||
| Opening Date: | Apr 19, 1915 | ||
| Closing Date: | Jun 19, 1915 | Total Performances: |
Category: Musical, Operetta, Revival, Broadway
Description: A comic opera in two acts
Setting: Quarterdeck of H.M.S. Pinafore off Portsmouth.
| Production Staff | |
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| Produced by William A. Brady and Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company | |
| Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan; Musical Director: Clarence West; Libretto by William S. Gilbert | |
| Directed by Herbert Cripps | |
| Cast |
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| Arthur Aldridge | Ralph Rackstraw | |
| Alice Brady | Josephine the Captain's Daughter |
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| William Danforth | The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. First Lord of the Admiralty |
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| DeWolf Hopper | Dick Deadeye | |
| Marie Horgan | Little Buttercup Mrs. Cripps, a Portsmouth Bumboat Woman |
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| George MacFarlane | Captain Corcoran Commander of H.M.S. Pinafore |
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| Alice McComb | Hebe Sir Joseph's First Cousin |
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| Herbert L. Waterous | Bill Bobstay Boatswain |
music by Arthur Sullivan; lyrics by William S. Gilbert
| ACT 1 | |
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| We sail the ocean blue | |
| I'm called little Buttercup (Recitative and Song) | Little Buttercup (Mrs. Cripps, a Portsmouth Bumboat Woman) |
| The Nightingale sigh'd for the moon's bright ray (Scena) | Ralph Rackstraw and Chorus |
| A maiden fair to see (Aria) | Ralph Rackstraw and Chorus |
| I am the Captain of the Pinafore (Recitative, Song, and Chorus) | Captain Corcoran (Commander of H.M.S. Pinafore) and Men's Chorus |
| Sorry her lot | Josephine (the Captain's Daughter) |
| Over the bright blue sea Comes Sir Joseph Porter, K. C. B. | Women's Chorus |
| We sail the ocean blue (Reprise) | Men's Chorus |
| I am the monarch of the sea | The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. (First Lord of the Admiralty), Hebe (Sir Joseph's First Cousin), Bill Bobstay (Boatswain) and Chorus |
| When I was a lad | The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. (First Lord of the Admiralty) and Chorus |
| A British tar is a soaring soul | Ralph Rackstraw, Bill Bobstay (Boatswain) and Bob Beckett |
| Refrain, audacious tar, your suit from pressing | Josephine (the Captain's Daughter) and Ralph Rackstraw |
| Can I survive this overbearing? (Finale) | Principals and Chorus |
| ACT 2 | |
| Fair moon, to thee I sing! | Captain Corcoran (Commander of H.M.S. Pinafore) |
| Things are seldom what they seem | Little Buttercup (Mrs. Cripps, a Portsmouth Bumboat Woman) and Captain Corcoran (Commander of H.M.S. Pinafore) |
| The hours creep on apace (Scena) | Josephine (the Captain's Daughter) |
| Never mind the why or wherefore | Josephine (the Captain's Daughter), Captain Corcoran (Commander of H.M.S. Pinafore) and The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. (First Lord of the Admiralty) |
| The merry maiden and the tar | Captain Corcoran (Commander of H.M.S. Pinafore) and Dick Deadeye |
| Carefully on tiptoe stealing | Dick Deadeye, Captain Corcoran (Commander of H.M.S. Pinafore), Josephine (the Captain's Daughter), Ralph Rackstraw, Hebe (Sir Joseph's First Cousin), The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. (First Lord of the Admiralty) and Men's Chorus |
| Farewell, my own, Light of my life, farewell! | Ralph Rackstraw, Josephine (the Captain's Daughter), The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. (First Lord of the Admiralty), Hebe (Sir Joseph's First Cousin), Dick Deadeye, Bill Bobstay (Boatswain), Bob Beckett, Little Buttercup (Mrs. Cripps, a Portsmouth Bumboat Woman) and Chorus |
| A many years ago, when I was young and charming (Legend) | Little Buttercup (Mrs. Cripps, a Portsmouth Bumboat Woman) and Chorus |
| Oh joy, oh rapture unforseen (Finale) | Principals and Chorus |