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The comic opera, based on a poem and song by the eighteenth-century playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan, follows the story of how a gardener and his sweetheart become embroiled in the romantic complications of a Captain and his crew.\r\n\r\nThe Standard Theatre in New York opened as the Eagle Theatre in 1875. After its re-naming in 1878, it played host to several American premieres of Gilbert & Sullivan's operas, earning $100,000 from its run of <i>Patience</i>. In 1898 William Brady and Florenz Ziegfeld took over management, re-christening the theatre once again as the Manhattan Theatre.  \n","physicalDescription":"Yellow silk programme printed with black typographical ink, mounted on cream cardboard.","artistMakerPerson":[],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"A. S. 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