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Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan was produced at the Opera Comique Theatre under the management of the Comedy Opera Company, on Saturday 25th May 1878 until 24 December and from Saturday 1st until Thursday 20th February 1879.\r\n\r\nDelighted with <i>The Sorcerer</i>, D’Oyly Carte commissioned a new work from Gilbert and Sullivan in December 1877. Britain was a seafaring nation, and Gilbert’s new libretto satirised the popular nautical melodramas of his youth such as Douglas Jerrold’s <i>Black Eye’d Susa</i>n. Gilbert had featured nautical folk and language in his <i>Bab Ballads</i>, and developed them in <i>H.M.S. Pinafore</i>, a shipboard opera that opened in May 1878 featuring the considerate Captain Corcoran, his gallant crew, the dastardly Dick Deadeye, the First Lord of the Admiralty Sir Joseph Porter (a thinly-veiled portrait of the bookseller turned politician W.H. Smith), his sisters, cousins and aunts, and Buttercup the Bumboat woman.\r\n\r\nAfter a slow start due to a summer heatwave, the opera was a hit by August after Sullivan included its sparkling tunes in a Covent Garden concert. Angered by a host of unauthorised American productions starting with one in Boston in November 1878, Carte planned its first authorised American production which opened the following year at New York’s Fifth Avenue Theatre in December 1879, with Sullivan conducting.\r\n\r\nGeorge Sheringham (1884-1937) was an eclectic and prolific artist, commercial designer and stage designer whose early childhood was spent in Tewkesbury where his father was vicar of the Abbey. After school at the King’s School, Gloucester, and eighteen months at the Slade Art School from the age of fifteen, Sheringham studied with Harry Becker from 1901 to 1904, and lived and studied in Paris in 1905 and 1906, where he was influenced by the Asian art in the Musée Guimet. After supporting himself with poster design and watercolour painting he specialised in decorative work painting fans and panels on Lyonnais silk from November 1910. In 1915 he did his first book illustration for Max Beerbohm’s <i>The Happy Hypocrite</i>, and in 1917 and 1918 his first theatre designs for <i>The Sneezing Charm</i> produced by the private theatre club The Plough Club.\r\n\r\nSheringham’s work for productions by Nigel Playfair at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith, starting with designs for <i>The Duenna</i> in 1924 led to commissions by Rupert D’Oyly Carte for redressing <i>The Pirates of Penzance</i>, <i>H.M.S. Pinafore</i> and <i>Patience </i>for the 1929 season, and for new dresses for Phyllis, Strephon and the Fairies in <i>Iolanthe</i> in1932. 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