The pirates of Penzance.
Contributors: Nash, Royston.; Heyland, Michael.; Croffin, Peter.; Coe, Richard L. 1914-1995, annotator.; Gilbert, W. S. 1836-1911.; Sullivan, Arthur, 1842-1900.; D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.; John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.); Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress)
Published: 1976
Language: eng
Description: The Kennedy Center in association with James M. Nederlander, by arrangement with The D'Oyly Carte Opera Trust Limited and Dame Bridget D'Oyly Carte present D'Oyly Carte in Gilbert & Sullivan, musical director Royston Nash, production director Michael Heyland. "The Pirates of Penzance, or, The Slave of Duty," written by W.S. Gilbert, composed by Arthur Sullivan, setting by Peter Croffin, first performance Bijou Theatre, Paignton, December 30, 1879, first London performanc, Opera Comique, April 3, 1880.
Notes: John F. Kennedy Center, July 2-3, 1976.

"Stagebill. June 1976. Vol. IV, No. 10"--p. 5.

Title devised by Library staff.

Cast: James Conroy-Ward, John Ayldon, Jon Ellison, Meston Reid, Michael Rayner, Julia Goss, Jane Metcalfe, Caroline Baker, Patricia Ann Bennett, Lyndsie Holland.

LC copy has notations by Coe. Shelved under: Mikado.

Multiple Gilbert and Sullivan operettas with: The Mikado, or, The town of TItipu -- H.M.S. Pinafore, or, The Lass that loved a sailor.

In: Richard L. Coe Theater Programs Collection (Library of Congress).