The Wreck of the Pinafore
The Wreck of the Pinafore is a musical play by William Lingard (1837–1927)[1] and Luscombe Searelle (1860-1907)[2].
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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 accordingly successfully sued in the Supreme Court of the Australian Colony of Victoria by the authors. This seems to have led to Lingard and Searelle writing the burlesque parody of the original opera, called The Wreck of the Pinafore, in which the opera's characters are shipwrecked on a desert island. It had a short-lived run at the Opera Comique in 1882,
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Performance history in South Africa
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lingard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luscombe_Searelle
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 1932. (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. 377
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