John Adams High School - Clipper Yearbook (Ozone Park, NY)

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tended as a curtatn ratser tole the show Tnal by Iury took London by storm and set the ctty clamortng for more of the same At that t1me no one reahzed fully Just how fruttful that partnershtp would actually be The combtnatton lasted unttl eleven more operettas had been produced durrng the next nmeteen years l dependent of the chorus no fewer than one hundred frfty stx dlfferent characters were xntroduced by Grlbert and Sull1van The duo m comb1nat1on Wllh D Oyly Carte formed a Comlc Opera Company which began w1th The Sorcerer produced at Londons long smce vanlshed Opera Comlque tn 1877 Thts the companys ftrst pro ductlon brought the start of a long hne of the so called patter songs My Name Is Iohn Wellxngton Wells whtch 1ncludes the full sales talk of a very respectable f1rm of sorcerers W1th The Sorcerer Gtloert and Sulhvan really put mto effect for the f1rst t1me the1r great comb1nat1on of satxrtcal ltbrettt and catchy tunes Thrs comblned w1th the fact that the sub tects treated by G1lbert have um versal and everlastxng appeal has served to guarantee the1r product1ons a place as top drawtng cards 1n any country and at any t1me The humor put 1nto the operettas by the parr IS of course typxcally Brlttsh but con trary to the usual scheme of thmgs generally pokes fun at Br1t1sh auster As proof of the constant t1mel1ness of the1r works etghty percent of all theatrxcal product1ons 1n Great Brxtam today are Gllbert and Sulltvan No 7 body over there seems to thtnk that these ltvely shades are ID a rut The Sorcerer was followed wtth ever mcreasmg success by HMS Ptnafore and The P1rates of Penz ance The former a travesty on the Royal Navy uses a theme wh1ch later appeared wlth but sllght mod1ftcat1on tn The Gondolters a case of a char acter not knowtng hts true 1dent1ty In The Ptrates of Penzance a very non mtlttary mayor general runs afoul of a soft hearted band of plrates wrth an excellent parody on the London bobbtes thrown tn Pahence lolanthe and Prm cess Ida were next 1n that order be fore the appearance of the greatest Gtlbert and Sulltvan productton The Mrkado In th1s the partners so suc cessfully poked fun at the Iapanese way of do1ng th ngs that The Mtka clatmed that It detracted from the glory of the Emperor wh1ch xt cer talnly d1d In l888 two years after The M1 kado Gxlbert and Sulhvar ame out w1th Ruddtgore and the followlng year produced The Yeomen of the Guard The Gondolxers appeared m 1890 and was the last longterm Glbert and Sulllvan success Uo p1a L1m1ted and The Grand Duke were yet to come but these are not among todays favorltes All the Gllbert and Sullrvan pro duchons were accla1med at the1r open1ngs 1n London-all that IS but Thesp1s The manner Wlll1Gm S Gtlbert and Sulltvan rose above th1s and reached the he1ghts a trlbute to the1r gentus contmues to del1ght the ln wh1ch Str Str Arthur S 1n1t1al fa1lure of success ts which today world v 1 - I I S 4 . . . H- , A , , I I - 1 I r ' . - .. , 1 ,, , - In this CCISE, it WCIS the fCI1'l'1OLlS Oh! do wqs banned in Iqpcm, The Icrps ,H h l A C ' , 1 ' . 1 - ity. ' ' , 1 ' A

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.,-L.-41.1 rg l i L. V17 XV ii- -I? ffl 55 Q els Q, f Gilbert and ANDRI' XX STEIGWIAN T1-1E FLOWERS that bloom in the spring Tra 1a Breathe promise ot merry sun shine The operettas left to posterity by the great play writing team of Gilbert and Sullivan have been bringing their merry sunshine to all parts of the world for seventy odd years These Englishmen would probably score a hands down victory over Rodgers and Hammerstein their present day coun terparts The brilliant Gilbert and Sul hvan burlesque of the Royal Navy 1-1 M S Pinafore celebrated the seventieth anniversary of its first per formance on May twenty fifth During this tlme it has been performed every night in one or more places around the world What manner of men could produce Schwenck Gilbert who wrote the libretti and Arthur Seymour Sullivan composer of the music were London born Gilbert although raised in a literary household did not start wrt ing until he was twenty two and ulllvan even then in the unhelpful atmosphere of a government office Sullivans life proved almost a direct contrast to his partners By the age of twenty he was already renowned as a composer of religious music the field which he intended to make his lifes work Gilbert and Sulivan first met in 1870 and rn 1871 their first production Thespis made its appearance This operetta was a dismal flop and they did not produce another until 1875 Thespis made a rather dim begin n ng for what was later to become the most successful artistic partnership that the stage has ever seen Richard DOyly Carte founder of the D Oyly Carte Opera Company was the one who brought Gilbert and Sullivan to write their first hit 1 1868 Gilbert had contributed a short sketch to the comic weekly Fun and when Mr D Oyly Carte had him base a libretto on that sketch and put it to pot At that time DOy1y Carte was acting as manager for an operatic company and had found himself in need of a curtain raiser Gilberts 11 bretto and Sullivans music combined tc aive Trial by Iury which . I P. . V 1 . I n ste- R 7 1 7 it 1 I i-, l I H 2 Ii X ' Q 1 X such successful works? Both William music by Sullivan, they hit the jack- fi ' X - - f W 1 - . , ' . 1 ' . if 'I' tl l - L . . Va , I X . I . L- , , 4 . 5 l -Q-1 . . V- I 4. ., . , I in- - x - ... 4 'Y ! , , ,.,. 4.21 7 '- ' - r -- - -ur ' ,, .,

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