PREMIÈRE DATE
WORK TITLE
W S Gilbert: Biography
W S GILBERT’S WORK TIME-LINE
ST DAVID’S PLAYERS RESOURCE CENTRE
ST DAVID’S PLAYERS
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
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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
A Medical Man
Happy Arcadia (Composed by Frederic Clay)
Quits (revised version of An Old Score)
The Wicked World
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)
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)
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
The Ne’er-Do-Weel
The Vagabond (rewritten version of The Ne-er-Do-Weel)
Lord Mayor’s Day
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THE MARTYR OF ANTIOCH (Libretto from Dean Millman, Edited by W. S. Gilbert)
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Comedy and Tragedy
Brantinghame Hall
The Brigands (Composed by Jacques Offenbach)
The Mountebanks (Composed by Alfred Cellier)
Haste to the Wedding (Composed by George Grossmith)
His Excellency (Composed by Frank Osmond Carr)
The Fortune-Hunter
Harlequin and the Fairy’s Dilemma
Fallen Fairies (Composed by Edward German)
The Hooligan
Trying a Dramatist
Lyceum Theatre
Unperformed
Astley’s Theatre
St James’s Theatre
St James’s 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 George’s 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 James’s 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 James’s 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
NUMBER OF
PERFORMANCES
Arthur Sullivans work time-line
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