PREMIÈRE DATE

WORK TITLE

W S Gilbert: Biography

W S GILBERTS WORK TIME-LINE

 

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Gilbert and Sullivan Society · Exeter · Devon

31 October 1863

 1866

26 December 1866

29 December 1866

15 June 1867

6 July 1867

4 November 1867

5 December 1867

???

26 December 1867

21 March 1868

21 December 1868

29 March 1869

19 June 1869

26 July 1869

22 November 1869

8 January 1870

26 May 1870

20 June 1870

19 November 1870

25 January 1871

30 January 1871

28 April 1871

29 May 1871

28 October 1871

9 December 1871

26 December 1871

24 October 1872

28 October 1872

25 November 1872

4 January 1873

3 March 1873

18 October 1873

15 November 1873

3 January 1874

17 January 1874

24 January 1874

4 March 1874

21 March 1874

30 August 1874

25 March 1875

24 April 1875

5 July 1875

9 December 1875

24 June 1876

11 September 1876

3 February 1877

3 October 1877

17 November 1877

13 February 1878

25 February 1878

March 1878

25 May 1878

24 March 1879

30 June 1879

30 December 1879

31 December 1879

3 April 1880

15 October 1880

23 Apr 1881

10 Oct 1881

15 December 1881

25 November 1882

5 January 1884

16 January 1884

14 March 1885

22 January 1887

3 October 1888

29 November 1888

2 September 1889

7 December 1989

3 June 1891

4 January 1892

27 July 1892

7 October 1893

27 October 1894

7 March 1896

27 September 1897

3 May 1904

15 December 1909

27 February 1911

1911

Uncle Baby

Ruy Blas

Hush-a-Bye, Baby, on the Tree Top

Dulcamara!

La Vivandière

Robinson Crusoe

Allow Me To Explain

Highly Improbable

A Colossal Idea

Harlequin Cock Robin and Jenny Wren

The Merry Zingara

Robert the Devil

No Cards (Composed by German Reed/Lionel Elliott)

The Pretty Druidess

An Old Score

Ages Ago (composed by Frederic Clay)

The Princess

The Gentleman in Black (Composed by Frederic Clay)

Our Island Home (Composed by German Reed)

The Palace of Truth

Randall’s Thumb

A Sensation Novel (Composed by German Reed)

Creatures of Impulse (Composed by Alberto Randagger)

Great Expectations (Adapted from Dickens)

On Guard

Pygmalion and Galatea

THESPIS

A Medical Man

Happy Arcadia (Composed by Frederic Clay)

Quits (revised version of An Old Score)

The Wicked World

The Happy Land

The Realm of Joy

The Wedding March

Charity

Ought We To Visit Her?

Committed For Trial

The Blue-Legged Lady

Topsyturveydom (Composed by Alfred Cellier)

Sweethearts

TRIAL BY JURY

Tom Cobb

Eyes and No Eyes (Composed by German Reed)

Broken Hearts

Princess Toto (Composed by Frederic Clay)

Dan’l Druce, Blacksmith

On Bail (revision of Committed for Trial)

Engaged

THE SORCERER

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

The Ne’er-Do-Weel

The Vagabond (rewritten version of The Ne-er-Do-Weel)

HMS PINAFORE

Gretchen

Lord Mayors Day

THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE

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THE MARTYR OF ANTIOCH (Libretto from Dean Millman, Edited by W. S. Gilbert)

PATIENCE

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Foggertys Fairy

IOLANTHE

PRINCESS IDA

Comedy and Tragedy

THE MIKADO

RUDDYGORE

THE YEOMEN OF THE GUARD

Brantinghame Hall

The Brigands (Composed by Jacques Offenbach)

THE GONDOLIERS

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

The Mountebanks (Composed by Alfred Cellier)

Haste to the Wedding (Composed by George Grossmith)

UTOPIA, (LIMITED)

His Excellency (Composed by Frank Osmond Carr)

THE GRAND DUKE

The Fortune-Hunter

Harlequin and the Fairy’s Dilemma

Fallen Fairies (Composed by Edward German)

The Hooligan

Trying a Dramatist

PREMIÈRE VENUE

 

 

Lyceum Theatre

Unperformed

Astleys Theatre

St Jamess Theatre

St Jamess Hall, Liverpool

Haymarket Theatre

Prince of Wales Theatre

Royalty

Unperformed

Lyceum Theatre

Royalty Theatre

Gaiety Theatre

Royal Gallery of Illustration

Charing Cross Theatre

Gaiety Theatre

Royal Gallery of Illustration

Olympic Theatre

Charing Cross Theatre

Royal Gallery of Illustration

Haymarket Theatre

Court Theatre

Royal Gallery of Illustration

Court Theatre

Court Theatre

Court Theatre

Haymarket Theatre

Gaiety Theatre

St Georges Hall

Royal Gallery of Illustration

Court Theatre

Haymarket Theatre

Court Theatre

Royalty Theatre

Court Theatre

Haymarket Theatre

Royalty Theatre

Globe Theatre

Court Theatre

Criterion Theatre

Prince of Wales Theatre

Royalty Theatre

St Jamess Theatre

Royal Gallery of Illustration

Court Theatre

Theatre Royal, Nottingham

Haymarket Theatre

Haymarket Theatre

Haymarket Theatre

Opera Comique

Gaiety Theatre

Olympic Theatre

Olympic Theatre

Opera Comique

Olympic Theatre

Folly Theatre

Royal Bijou Theatre, Paignton

First Avenue Theater, New York

Opera Comique

Leeds

Opera Comique

transferring to Savoy Theatre

Criterion Theatre

Savoy Theatre

Savoy Theatre

Lyceum Theatre

Savoy Theatre

Savoy Theatre

Savoy Theatre

St Jamess Theatre

Theatre Royal, Plymouth

Savoy Theatre

Vaudeville Theatre

Lyric Theatre

Criterion Theatre

Savoy Theatre

Lyric Theatre

Savoy Theatre

Theatre Royal, Birmingham

Garrick Theatre

Savoy Theatre

London Coliseum

Unperformed

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PERFORMANCES

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