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Chronology of stage writing
The Early Years
1863
Uncle Baby
One-act comedietta (October 31) -- Lyceum Theatre
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1865
Christmas Extravaganza
(December) -- St James's Theatre
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1866
Hush-a-Bye Baby, on the Tree Top or Harlequin Fortunia,
King Frog of
Frog Island, and the Magic Toys of Lowther Arcade
Anonymous Christmas pantomine, written with Chas. Millard (December
26)
Dulcamara, or The Little Duck and the Great Quack
Play - a burlesque of Donizetti's L'Elsir d'Amore (December 29)
-- St. James's Theatre
Ruy Blas
Burlesque - unperformed; published in Warne's Christmas Annual
1866
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1867
La Vivandiere or True to the Corps
Extravaganza. A parody of The Daughter of the Regiment (June
15) -- St. James's Hall, Liverpool
Robinson Crusoe or The Injun Bride and the Injured Wife
Burlesque, written with H. J. Byron, Thomas Hood, H. S. Leigh
and
Arthur Sketchley (July 6) -- Haymarket Theatre
Allow Me To Explain
One-act farce (November 4) -- Prince of Wales's Theatre
Highly Improbable
One-act farce (December 5) -- Royalty Theatre
Harlequin Cock-Robin and Jenny Wrenor Fortunatus and the
Water of Life,
the Three Bears, the Three Gifts, the Three Wishes, and the Little
Man whoWoo'd the Little Maid
Christmas pantomine (December 26) -- Lyceum Theatre
A Colossal Idea
One-act farce, unperformed, published 1932
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1868
The Merry Zingara or The Tipsy Gipsy and the Pipsy Wipsy
Extravaganza (March 21) -- Royalty Theatre
Robert the Devil or The Nun, the Dun, and the Son of a
Gun
A version of Meyerbeer's opera Robert Le Diable (December 21)
-- Gaiety Theatre
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1869
No Cards
One-act musical entertainment, with music by Thomas German-Reed
(and Lionel Elliott?) (March 29) -- Royal Gallery of Illustration
The Pretty Druidess or The Mother, the Maid, and the Mistletoe
Bough
Extravaganza (June 19) -- Charing Cross Theatre
An Old Score
Three-act comedy (July 19) -- Gaiety Theatre (revived Nov. 11,
1872, at Court Theatre as Quits)
Ages Ago
One-act musical entertainment, with music by Frederic Clay. (November
22) -- Royal Gallery of Illustration
A Medical Man
One-act farce, published in Clement Scott's Drawing-Room Plays
(1870), performed St. George's Hall, Oct. 24, 1872.
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1870
The Princess
Blank-verse parody of Tennyson's poem in five scenes. (January
8) -- Olympic Theatre
The Gentleman in Black
Two-act musical play, with music by Frederic Clay (May 26) --
Charing Cross Theatre
Our Island Home
One-act musical entertainment, with music by Thomas German Reed
(June 20) -- Royal Gallery of Illustration
The Palace of Truth
Play - a fairy comedy in three acts (November 19) -- Haymarket
Theatre
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The G&S Years
1871
Randall's Thumb
Comedy (January 25) -- Royal Court Theatre
A Sensation Novel
Musical entertainment (January 30) -- Royal Gallery of Illustration
Creatures of Impulse
A Musical Fairy Tale in One Act, with music by Alberto Randegger
(April 2) -- Royal Court Theatre
Great Expectations
Play - after Dickens (May 29) -- Court Theatre
On Guard
Comedy (October 28)
Pygmalion and Galatea
Comedy (December 9) -- Haymarket Theatre
Thespis (December 26)
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1872
A Medical Man
Comedietta (October 24)
Happy Arcadia
Play, with music by Frederic Clay (October 28) -- Royal Gallery
of Illustration
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1873
The Wicked World
Fairy comedy (January 4) -- Haymarket Theatre
The Happy Land
Pseudonymous extravaganza (March 3) -- Court Theatre
The Realm of Joy
One-act farce (written as F. Latour Tomline), freely adapted
from Le Roi Candaule by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy, title
changed after a few nights to The Realms of Joy (October 28)
-- Royalty Theatre
The Wedding March
Three-act farce, written as F. Latour Tomline, translated from
Un Chapeau du Paille D'Italie by Eugene Labiche (November 15)
-- Court Theatre
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1874
Charity
Four--act drama (January 3) -- Haymarket Theatre
Ought We to Visit Her?
Three-act drama, adapted from the novel by Mrs. Annie Edwardes
(January 17) -- Royalty Theatre
Committed for Trial
Two-act farce, translated from Le Reveillon by Henri Meilhac
and Ludovic Halevy (January 24) -- Globe Theatre
The Blue-Legged Lady
One-act farce, no author named, translated from La Dame aux Jambes
d'Azur by Eugene Labiche and Marc-Michel (March 4) -- Court Theatre
Topsyturveydom
One-act extravaganza, with music by Alfred Cellier (March 21)
--Criterion Threatre
Sweethearts
Two-act comedy (November 7) -- Prince of Wales's Theatre
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1875
Trial by Jury (March 25)
Tom Cobb or, Fortune's Toy
Three-act farce (April 24) -- St. James's Theatre
Eyes and No Eyes or, The Art of Seeing
One-act musical entertainment, with music by German Reed (July
5) -- St. George's Hall
Broken Hearts
Three-act verse drame (December 9) -- Court Theatre
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1876
Princess Toto
Three-act comic opera with music by Frederic Clay (July 1) --
Nottingham Theatre
Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith
Three-act drama (September 11) -- Haymarket Theatre
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1877
On Bail
Three-act farce (February 3) -- Criterion Theatre
Engaged
Three-act farcical comedy (October 3) -- Haymarket Theatre
The Sorcerer (November 17)
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1878
[Ali Baba and] The Forty Thieves
Pantomime-burlesque, written with Robert Reece, F. C. Burnand,
and H. J. Byron, one performance (February 13) -- Gaiety Theatre
The Ne'er Do Weel (rewritten and restaged three weeks
later as The Vagabond)Three-act drama (February 25) -- Olympic
Theatre
H.M.S. Pinafore (May 25)
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1879
Gretchen
Four-act verse tragedy (March 24) -- Olympic Theatre
Lord Mayor's Day
Three-act nonymous farce, translated from La Cagnotte by Eugene
Labiche. Gilbert translated the first two acts before abandoning
the project, but when it was produced his name did not appear.
(July 1) -- Folly Theatre
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1880
The Pirates of Penzance (April 3)
The Martyr of Antioch
Cantata (music by Sullivan) (October 15) -- Leeds Festival
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1881
Patience (April 23)
Foggerty's Fairy
Three-act fairy comedy (December 15) -- Criterion Theatre
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1882
Iolanthe (November 25)
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1884
Princess Ida (January 5)
Comedy and Tragedy
One-act drama (January 26) -- Lyceum Theatre
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1885
The Mikado (March 14)
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1887
Ruddigore (January 22)
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1888
The Yeomen of the Guard (October 3)
Brantinghame Hall
Four-act drama (November 29) -- St James's Theatre
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1889
The Gondoliers (December 7)
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1891
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Burlesque in Three Short "Tableaux", (originally published
in Fun, December 1884) (June 3) -- Vaudeville Theatre
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1892
The Mountebanks
Two-act comic opera, with music by Alfred Cellier (January 4)
-- Lyric Theatre
Haste to the Weddinger
Three-act comic opera, with music by George Grossmith. A musicalised
version of The Wedding March. (July 27) -- Criterion Theatre.
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1893
Utopia, Limited (October 7)
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1894
His Excellency
Two-act comic opera, with music by Osmond Carr (October 27) --
Lyric Theatre
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1896
The Grand Duke (March 7)
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Post G&S Years
1897
The Fortune-Hunter
Three-act drama (September 27) -- Theatre Royal, Birmingham
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1904
Harlequin and the Fairy's Dilemma
Two-act domestic pantomime. Retitled The Fairy's Dilemma after
a few days. (May 3) -- Garrick Theatre
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1909
Fallen Fairies or, The Wicked World
Two-act comic opera, with music by Edward German. A musicalised
version
of The Wicked World. (December 15) -- Savoy Theatre
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1911
The Hooligan
One-act drama (February 27) -- Coliseum Theatre
Trying a Dramatist
One-act sketch. Published in Original Plays, Fourth Series (1911).
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The above information extracted from the Gilbert & Sullivan
Archive as expanded by Andrew Crowther.
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