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Tues 2 to Sat 6 March 2010 at 8pm
HMS Pinafore
Letterkenny Musical Society
Tickets €18/€14 (Tues: 2 tickets for price of 1)
Book online: Tues | Wed | Thur | Fri | Sat
NB: Tuesday's offer not available online - call 0749120777 to book instead.
Another Gilbert and Sullivan comedy classic following the LMS's hit productions of The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado.
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass that Loved a Sailor, first opened at the Opera Comique in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth collaboration and their first international sensation.
The story takes place aboard the British ship H.M.S. Pinafore. The captain's daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw, although her father intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. She abides by her father's wishes at first, but Sir Joseph's advocacy of the equality of humankind encourages Ralph and Josephine to overturn conventional social order. They declare their love for each other and eventually plan to elope. The captain discovers this plan but a surprise disclosure changes things dramatically near the end of the story.
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