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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 06, 1926 | ||
| Closing Date: | May 1926 | Total Performances: | 56 |
Category: Musical, Comedy, 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 Messrs. Shubert (Lee and J. J.) | |
| Libretto by W. S. Gilbert; Music by Sir Arthur Sullivan | |
| Directed by Milton Aborn | |
| Cast |
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| Chester Bright | Bob Beckett | |
| Tom Burke | Ralph Rackstraw | |
| William Danforth | Dick Deadeye | |
| Nydia D'Arnell | Cousin Hebe | |
| Emmet Douglas | Sergeant of Marines | |
| Master Durkin | Tommy Tucker | |
| Charles E. Galagher | Bill Bobstay Boatswain |
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| Marion Green | Captain Corcoran Commander of H.M.S. Pinafore |
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| John E. Hazzard | The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B. First Lord of the Admiralty |
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| Marguerite Namara | Josephine the Captain's Daughter |
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| Fay Templeton | Little Buttercup Mrs. Cripps, a Portsmouth Bumboat Woman |
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 |