The structure and style of these operas, particularly HMS Pinafore, were much copied and contributed significantly to the development of modern musical theatre.
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31 Facts About HMS Pinafore
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HMS Pinafore'set music from the show sold well, and street musicians played the melodies.
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The bright and cheerful music of HMS Pinafore was composed during a time when Sullivan suffered from excruciating pain from a kidney stone.
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HMS Pinafore's was under contract to play the role of Cousin Hebe in Pinafore.
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HMS Pinafore sought realism in acting, just as he strove for realistic visual elements.
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HMS Pinafore deprecated self-conscious interaction with the audience and insisted on a style of portrayal in which the characters were never aware of their own absurdity but were coherent internal wholes.
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HMS Pinafore then delivers a humiliating lesson in etiquette, telling the Captain that he must always say "if you please" after giving an order; for "A British sailor is any man's equal" – excepting Sir Joseph's.
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HMS Pinafore tells her that, if it were not for the difference in their social standing, he would have returned her affection.
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HMS Pinafore opened on 25 May 1878 at the Opera Comique, before an enthusiastic audience, with Sullivan conducting.
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In late August 1878, Sullivan used some of the HMS Pinafore music, arranged by his assistant Hamilton Clarke, during several successful promenade concerts at Covent Garden that generated interest and stimulated ticket sales.
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HMS Pinafore became a source of popular quotations on both sides of the Atlantic, such as the exchange:.
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HMS Pinafore arranged to rent a theatre and auditioned chorus members for the American production of Pinafore and a new Gilbert and Sullivan opera to be premiered in New York, and for tours.
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HMS Pinafore'set music arrangements were popular, there were Pinafore-themed dolls and household items, and references to the opera were common in advertising, news and other media.
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HMS Pinafore opened in New York on 1 December 1879 and ran for the rest of December.
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Unauthorised juvenile productions of HMS Pinafore were so popular that Carte mounted his own children's version, played at matinees at the Opera Comique beginning on 16 December 1879.
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HMS Pinafore is still performed around the world by opera companies such as the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen; Australian Opera ; in Kassel, Germany; and even Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
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HMS Pinafore went on to become one of the most successful touring companies in America.
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When HMS Pinafore was first revived in London in 1887, it was already treated as a classic.
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HMS Pinafore's commented that Gilbert uses several ideas and themes from his Bab Ballads, including the idea of gentlemanly behaviour of a captain towards his crew from "Captain Reece" and the exchange of ranks due to exchange at birth from "General John" .
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Walbrook wrote in 1921 that HMS Pinafore "satirizes the type of nautical drama of which Douglas Jerrold's Black-Eyed Susan is a typical instance, and the 'God's Englishman' sort of patriotism which consists in shouting a platitude, striking an attitude, and doing little or nothing to help one's country".
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In HMS Pinafore, Gilbert revisits this theme in the character of Sir Joseph, who rises to the same position by "never go[ing] to sea".
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HMS Pinafore expresses his devotion to her in a poetic and moving speech that ends with "I am a British sailor, and I love you".
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In HMS Pinafore, which established many patterns for the later Savoy operas, Gilbert found a way to express his own conflict that " had tremendous appeal to the general public".
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In 1939, HMS Pinafore was chosen by NBC as one of the earliest operas ever broadcast on American television, but no recording is known to have been saved.
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HMS Pinafore later translated the missing songs and dialogue, with Bob Tartell, and the show has been toured widely under the name Der Yiddisher Pinafore.
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Literary references to Pinafore songs include Harris's attempt to sing "When I Was a Lad" in Jerome K Jerome's Three Men in a Boat.
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Songs from HMS Pinafore have been used to give period flavor to such films as the 1981 historical film Chariots of Fire, in which the protagonist, Harold Abrahams, and others from Cambridge University, sing "He Is an Englishman".
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Television series that include substantial HMS Pinafore references include The West Wing, for example in the 2000 episode "And It's Surely to Their Credit", where "He Is an Englishman" is used throughout and quoted in the episode's title.
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