The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-26
COMIC OPERA ON THE WATER.
The Encinal Yacht Club VIII
Play It on a Real Ship.
Little Buttercur SIR Joseph, His Sisters and
His Cousins and His Aunts All
to b There.

The old schooner Sacramento had an ex-
perience yesterday afternoon which she
never had before. but which she will have
again before the week Is out.
The cause OF all this is that the Encinal
Yacht Club of Alameda is going to give
realistic performance of Gilbert s. Sulli-
vans charming opera "Pinatore" on Fri
day and Saturday nights Of this week.
Yesterday afternoon the company had its
first rehearsal on board of the ship, which
is moored about fifty feet from the the club
house at the foot of Grand street, on the
bay side Of Alameda.
Everything passed off in the smoothest
witnessed it was that when the opera was
produced on Friday and Saturday next it
would be great success.
The club has arranged to produce the
opera on the most elab crate scale and have
spared neither time nor money to make it
one Of the leading events OF the year.
In the first place the schooner is to be re-
painted and rugged as a model man-Of-war
down to the minutest point, with real guns,
boaIding-nettlng, etc, making 1t as realistic
as possible.
Sir Joseph Porter will arrive in his gig,
with his sisters. cousins and his aunts,
In the most approved way, and Little But
tercup will row alongside in her bumbGat
| just the same as the original Little Butter
| cup did.
Arrangements have been made to seat
1900 people. 500 of these to be placed on cir
| cus-seats on tie porch OF the clubhouse,
which is to be covered and inclosed with
canvas TO keep out the drafts and night
breezes, while the rest arc TO be acc0mm0-
| dated on two large wheat barges placed
| directly below the porch and capable OF
| holding 500 each.
| The time has been set when the moon is
| almost full, so that when the captain sings
his song, Fair Moon, to Thee 1 Sing" he
| can look upon a real moon and not feel
| ashamed about it. In fact, everything has
been arranged TO make the performance
most charming.
There will be chorus of eighty voices
| selected from the ranks of the San Fran
| cisco Operate Society. who are really CIV
| ing the opera under the auspices of the
| yacht club, and the other characters will be
assumed by people we'll known both in pro-
| fessional and amateur circles.
| The darkness will be lighted by four huge
| calclums and dozen of locomotive head
| lights making it almost as plain as in a
| theater.
At the drop of the curtain, as it were, all
| the yachts of the club will let off simuta-
| neously a beautiful display of fireworks to
make fitting end TO the evening, and. al
though they are keeping secret exactly
WHat Is gong 10 De Q0Db the eIecE Is eXs
| Dected to be something sensational
The performance will begin at O'clock
| sharp, and Signor DelapiaDi. the conductor,
| Mr.. Alphonse Lutrlnger, the stage mana
| ger, and DR.. Humphrey, who has devoted
| most of his spare time in the past month to
make it success, guarantee that it will 60
| off on time.
A hawser will also be stretched across
| the water, 800 yards from the clubhouse, in
| order TO keep the stray boats from interfer-
| ing with the proceedings.
The cast of characters will be as follows:
Sir Joseph Porter ....... Mr.. Schleicher
Captain. Mr.. Robert Lloyd
hdlpn hSekstIdH-s.....-.- Mr. CoInh
Dick Deadeye ...................DrJ d. Humphrey
Boatsw Mr.. Fleming
ro.onht, ........ Friday night, Mrs II. o. Tenney
'o'epn'He -. Saturday night. Miss Alona Heuer
Little Buttercup.... Miss Lolita Leayitt
Phoebe. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ........ Mrs. j. Madden