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	== Performance history in South Africa ==		== Performance history in South Africa ==

		+	1884: According to [[D.C. Boonzaier]]'s memoirs (1923), this [[burlesque]] was performed under the shortened title (''[[The Pinafore]]'') as part of a season of plays put on in the [[Theatre Royal]] Cape Town by a company under the management of [[Henry Harper]], with the leader of the company - [[H.C. Sidney]] in the role of "Sir Joseph Porter".

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 During a tour of Australia with his company in 1880, Lingard did an unauthorised production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Savoy opera '''''[[H.M.S. Pinafore]]'''''  and was successfully sued in the Supreme Court of the Australian Colony of Victoria by the authors. This seems to have led to Lingard and [[Luscombe Searelle|Searelle]] writing the burlesque parody of the original opera, a kind of "sequel" called ''[[The Wreck of the Pinafore]]'', in which the opera's characters are shipwrecked on a desert island.
-According to an article in the ''Auckland Star'' (Volume XV, Issue 3724, 19 July 1882) the burlesque was apparently a "miserable ''olla podrida'' of filched melodies and second-hand satire"  and was a dismal failure when first performed in Dunedin and Auckland, in San Francisco and other cities in the USA, that ultimately had a short-lived run at the Opera Comique, London, in 1882.
+According to an article in the ''Auckland Star'' (Volume XV, Issue 3724, 19 July 1882) the burlesque was apparently a "miserable ''olla podrida'' of filched melodies and second-hand satire"  and was a dismal failure when first performed in Dunedin and Auckland, in San Francisco and other cities in the USA, that ultimately had a short-lived run at the Opera Comique, London, in 1882.[https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS18820719.2.17.2]
 Commentary on the programme for the opening night in London, provided on the website ''Gilbert & Sullivan''.

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 Commentary on the programme for the opening night in London, provided on the website ''Gilbert & Sullivan''.
-''a selling exhibition of memorabilia''[http://www.c20th.com/GSarchiveother.htm], says of the latter failure: "..the composer, Luscombe Searelle ...had the gall to sail it into the Opera Comique (where the original had premiered) on May 27th 1882. ... Greeted with loud derision on opening night, The Wreck was soon wrecked, lasting only four performances".
+''a selling exhibition of memorabilia'', says of the latter failure: "..the composer, Luscombe Searelle ...had the gall to sail it into the Opera Comique (where the original had premiered) on May 27th 1882. ... Greeted with loud derision on opening night, The Wreck was soon wrecked, lasting only four performances".[http://www.c20th.com/GSarchiveother.htm]
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 According to an article in the ''Auckland Star'' (Volume XV, Issue 3724, 19 July 1882) the burlesque was apparently a "miserable ''olla podrida'' of filched melodies and second-hand satire"  and was a dismal failure when first performed in Dunedin and Auckland, in San Francisco and other cities in the USA, that ultimately had a short-lived run at the Opera Comique, London, in 1882.
-Commentary on the programme for the opening night in London, provided on the website ''Gilbert & Sullivan.
+Commentary on the programme for the opening night in London, provided on the website ''Gilbert & Sullivan''.
-a selling exhibition of memorabilia''[http://www.c20th.com/GSarchiveother.htm], says of the latter failure: "..the composer, Luscombe Searelle ...had the gall to sail it into the Opera Comique (where the original had premiered) on May 27th 1882. ... Greeted with loud derision on opening night, The Wreck was soon wrecked, lasting only four performances".
+''a selling exhibition of memorabilia''[http://www.c20th.com/GSarchiveother.htm], says of the latter failure: "..the composer, Luscombe Searelle ...had the gall to sail it into the Opera Comique (where the original had premiered) on May 27th 1882. ... Greeted with loud derision on opening night, The Wreck was soon wrecked, lasting only four performances".
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 According to an article in the ''Auckland Star'' (Volume XV, Issue 3724, 19 July 1882) the burlesque was apparently a "miserable ''olla podrida'' of filched melodies and second-hand satire"  and was a dismal failure when first performed in Dunedin and Auckland, in San Francisco and other cities in the USA, that ultimately had a short-lived run at the Opera Comique, London, in 1882.
-Commentary on the programme for the opening night in London, provided on the website ''Gilbert & Sullivan:
+Commentary on the programme for the opening night in London, provided on the website ''Gilbert & Sullivan.
 a selling exhibition of memorabilia''[http://www.c20th.com/GSarchiveother.htm], says of the latter failure: "..the composer, Luscombe Searelle ...had the gall to sail it into the Opera Comique (where the original had premiered) on May 27th 1882. ... Greeted with loud derision on opening night, The Wreck was soon wrecked, lasting only four performances".