H.M.S. Pinafore

H.M.S. Pinafore is a comic opera in two acts by W.S. Gilbert (1836–1911)[1] and Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900)[2]

Originally performed with its full title, as H.M.S. Pinafore, or The Lass That Loved a Sailor, but generally referred to simply as H.M.S. Pinafore.

The original text

The play opened at the Opera Comique, London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, became an international success and had a great impact on the evolution of the musical as an art form.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1903: Performed in South Africa by the visiting D'Oyly Carte Opera Company as part of their repertoire of Gilbert and Sullivan works, presented over the course of two seasons.

1935: Performed by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society

1951: Performed by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society

1953: Performed by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1956: Performed by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1966: Performed by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1973: Performed by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1978: Performed by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1979. Performed by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society

1984: Performed by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

1992: Performed by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

2009: Performed by the Cape Town Gilbert and Sullivan Society

Sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore

D.C. Boonzaier. 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1923. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp. 389-390, 410-411,

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