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Beginning in the fall of 1977, the company was performing full weeks runs of the operas, and the following year it moved into the 700-seat Symphony Space theatre in New York, including a production celebrating the centenary of H.M.S. Pinafore. Bergeret traded his services as the first Technical Director of Symphony Space (and Wofford as House ...
William Henry Smith, FRS (24 June 1825 – 6 October 1891) was an English bookseller and newsagent of the family firm W H Smith, who expanded the firm and introduced the practice of selling books and newspapers at railway stations.
In America, as had happened with H.M.S. Pinafore, the first productions were unauthorised, but once D'Oyly Carte's American production opened in August 1885, it was a success, earning record profits, and Carte formed several companies to tour the show in North America. [31]
The libretto of H.M.S. Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera (and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds): the heroic protagonist and his love-interest ; the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ; the baffled lyric baritone – the girl's father ...
Sister schools with Neighborhood School, East Village Community School, Earth School and Tompkins Square Middle School [2] PS 363: Neighborhood School: East Village: Share a building with PS 163 (S.T.A.R. Academy) [3] PS 364: Earth School: Lower East Side: PS 452 Upper West Side: PS 527: East Side School for Social Action: Yorkville, Manhattan ...
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