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	Thespis (operetta)
		Thespis premiered at the Gaiety Theatre in London on December 26, 1871, and ran for 64 performances.
		Thespis is an extravaganza in which the gods of Olympus, who have become elderly, are temporarily replaced by a troupe of nineteenth-century actors and actresses, one of whom is the eponymous Thespis, the Greek father of the drama.
		Thespis is asked for a ruling, and decides that Sparkeion is married to Daphne while they are gods, but his marriage to Nicemis will resume when they are mortals once again.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/ThespisOperetta.html (987 words)

	Thespis of Icaria
		Thespis of Icaria (6th century BC) is claimed to be the first person ever to appear on stage as an actor in a play.
		Thespis supposedly innovated a new style in which one singer or actor performed the words of individual characters in the stories, distinguishing between the characters with the aid of different masks.
		Thespis is, however, the first known actor in written plays, as opposed to improvised or orally transmitted plays.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/Thespis.html (514 words)

	Gilbert & Sullivan Biography
		The operetta dates back to the early 18th century and virtually up to the 1920’s.
		Beginning in 1871 with "Thespis," which did not show completely their future talents, the duo next offered the 1875 work, "Trial By Jury," which satirized the English legal system of the time.
		"Thespis" gave a hint of future successful collaborations but it was not until 1875 when Richard D’Oyly Carte, the noted impresario who then courted them throughout their career, asked them to do "Trial By Jury." The mania that would follow picked up steam with "Pinafore," which played for two years.
	www.timelessmusic.com /Bios/biogilbertsullivan_401.htm (863 words)

	Arthur Sullivan
		In 1867, he supplemented his income by producing the musical score to a one act operetta, Cox and Box.
		In 1871, John Hollingshead commissioned Sullivan to work with Gilbert to create the operetta Thespis for the Gaiety Theatre.
		The success was so great that the three men formed an oftentimes turbulent partnership which lasted for twenty years and fourteen operettas.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ar/Arthur_S._Sullivan.html (492 words)

	A Call for Singers for the 2006 APA in Montreal
		Jones has kindly allowed us to perform this operetta, which will be presented oratorio-style, with book in-hand and minimal blocking and costuming, Friday January 6, 2006.
		John Starks has directed and performed in several musicals and operettas, and John Given has significant choral and solo experience, so we plan to multi-task on this unprecedented fusion of our classical and musical talents.
		They trade places for a year with Thespis' company of comedians, who proceed to flub their roles as deities.
	www.camws.org /News/thespis.html (1179 words)

	Thespis (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old, was the first collaboration between librettist W.
		Thespis premiered in London at the Gaiety Theatre, on December 26, 1871, and ran for 63 performances.
		Thespis • Trial by Jury • The Sorcerer • H.M.S. Pinafore • The Pirates of Penzance • Patience • Iolanthe • Princess Ida
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thespis_(opera) (1145 words)

	THESPIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is entitled "Thespis ; or, The Gods Grown Old." With this idea — that is, of the senility of the deities — the drama commences, Diana and Apollo being the sufferers.
		Thespis and his travelling company undertake to cure this state of things.
		The result was quite satisfactory, and the audience had reason to be pleased, as they were, with the talent displayed.
	www.savoyoperas.org.uk /thespis/thespis1.html (127 words)

	Operetta, Part I
		The fact is, though, that the operetta that people in the English-speaking world generally know best has to be the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.
		Most of the operettas were performed originally at the Savoy Theater in London, under the auspices of Richard D'Oyly Carte.
		(A good list of operettas performed in the 1890s, with libretti and cast lists, is available.) The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, led first by Richard D'Oyly Carte's widow Helen, and then by his son Rupert and his daughter Bridget, continued to perform G&S and other light opera through most of the 20th century, until 1982.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/opera_retired/6981 (322 words)

	W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan
		So far reaching is the effect of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas or comic operas of 130 years ago that contemporary entertainment media continues to belt out the songs in everything from an episode of The Simpsons to an episode of The West Wing.
		While the influence of the playwright/lyricist Sir W.S. Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur Sullivan can still be felt today, in Victorian England they defined a new kind of theatre with their fifteen timeless collaborations.
		It was their first major hit and the beginning of the trio’s highly successful but often tumultuous partnership that would last for twenty years and twelve more operettas, until their break-up over a quarrel about a new carpet for the Savoy Theatre.
	www.bard.org /education/resources/other/gilbertsullivan.html (1091 words)

	The Arthur Sullivan Biography Page on Classic Cat
		The next Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, Patience, opened in the Opera Comique, London, in 1881 and was transferred to the specially built Savoy Theatre later the same year.
		Sullivan's authorship of the overture to Utopia Limited cannot be verified with certainty, as his autograph score is now lost, but it is likely attributable to him, as it consists of only a few bars of introduction, followed by a straight copy of music heard elsewhere in the opera (the Drawing Room scene).
		Thespis is now lost, but there is no doubt that it had an overture, and that Sullivan wrote it.
	www.classiccat.net /sullivan_a/biography.htm (2590 words)

	Harvard Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players
		Thespis was an extravaganza in which the gods of the classical world, now become elderly, were temporarily replaced by a troupe of Nineteenth Century actors and actresses.
		Thespis had a run estimated at between 64 and 80 performances at the small and not especially attractive Opera Comique Theatre.
		The Gilbert and Sullivan operettas were even more popular abroad, and many American cities saw amateur and professional Gilbert and Sullivan performing groups.
	www.hcs.harvard.edu /hrgsp/shows.php (1298 words)

	Shonen Savoy Manga presents ... The Bizarre Adventures of Gilbert and Sullivan
		Iolanthe, a fairy, was banished to the bottom of a stream for marrying a mortal.
		This operetta was actually banned from being performed for a while in the early twentieth century, as it was deemed offensive to the Japanese.
		Thirty-Five - The operetta "Ruddigore" was subtitled "The Witch's Curse" and involved a baronet who was cursed by a witch to commit a crime every day, or die horribly.
	www.itsamouse.com /gas/liner.html (1769 words)

	ABOUT THESPIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From 1986 to the present, Thespis has donated in excess of $24,000 to the church, as well as contributing $560 for chairs.
		A gift was also made via Thespis to the church in memory of the late Rob Higgins, one of our most memorable performers.
		We estimate that because of their original Thespis affiliation, we have gained approximately 12-15 new church members in recent years.
	www.uucdc.org /thespis/aboutthespis.htm (280 words)

	Thespis (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After Thespis, it would be four more years before Gilbert and Sullivan would collaborate on their next opera, the one-act Trial by Jury, in 1875.
		When that work was a surprise success, there were discussions of quickly reviving Thespis for the 1876 Christmas season, but the plans were abandoned when Richard D'Oyly Carte's backers were unwilling to meet Gilbert and Sullivan's financial terms.
		Aside from a single benefit performance later in 1872, Thespis was not revived in the creators' lifetimes, and Sullivan's complete score is believed to be lost.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thespis_(operetta) (1145 words)

	Thespis Home Page
		No vocal score for Thespis was published during Sullivan's lifetime and only two numbers from the original score survive.
		In Forty Years of Thespis Scholarship by Selwyn Tillett and Roderic Spencer, the authors put forward the theory that much more of the music of Thespis than Climbing over rocky mountain was adapted and re-used in The Pirates of Penzance.
		A chapter on Thespis from the book Gilbert and Sullivan Opera, A History and a Comment, by H. Walbrook, published in London in 1922.
	math.boisestate.edu /gas/thespis/html/index.htm (508 words)

	The Fulham Light Operatic Society Thespis
		Sullivan's score to Thespis does not survive, so the producers here did as many have done: assemble their own version based on "music from Sullivan's familiar operas plus a small amount of unpublished music." The sleeve notes do not indicate exactly who was responsible for the score, though it may well have been Garth Morton.
		There were a number of productions of Thespis at this time as, of course, this was the centenary of the opera, and several of the performers on the Fulham recording made quite a career on the amateur circuit in London and the home counties playing these rtles.
		Carole Beynon as Mercury was sparkling, cheeky and boyish (a complete contrast to the Fulham performance), Eddie Lewis was excruciatingly funny as Thespis (what he was able to do with a stick of French bread was unbelievable), and David Paramor had everyone in stitches as the pompous, but ineffectual Sillimon.
	www.concentric.net /~oakapple/gasdisc/thesrre.htm (769 words)

	Savoyaires -- The 2004 Production of Thespis
		It was an operetta called Thespis, or the Gods Grown Old, which tells a typical Gilbertian topsy-turvy story of a theatrical troupe whose members take over the roles of the Greek gods.
		Although it was generally well-received by the critics, it was evidently under-rehearsed and not exactly to the taste of the Gaiety's patrons; as a result, it closed after only sixty-four performances.
		Opening on March 18, 1982, at Theatre Building Chicago, Thespis was presented as a chamber production—performed with piano accompaniment by a cast of 13 playing the 16 named roles, so with neither chorus nor orchestra.
	www.savoyaires.org /thespis.htm (1107 words)

	Recordings of Thespis
		Schlotter has kindly allowed me to post his Thespis Discography here, which is appropriate because it spoofs many of the descriptions found at this site, besides being hilarious in its own right.
		The original score of Thespis does not survive, but that has not stopped many an enterprising Savoyard from either composing their own score or assembling one from existing Sullivan melodies.
		The story, in brief, is that while preparing a performing edition of Sullivan's 1864 ballet L'Ile Enchantée, several numbers were found in a different copyist's handwriting, and with a different pagination, from the rest of the work.
	www.concentric.net /~Oakapple/gasdisc/thes.htm (652 words)

	Harvard Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players
		The other operettas are performed with varying frequency, but the time between performances is never longer than ten years.
		Trial by Jury: Hijinks in a courtroom, as the "bride" sues for breach of promise.
		The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty: A young pirate just out of his "indentures" in love with Mabel, Major General Stanley's ward, while the rest of the pirate crew want to marry the general's other wards.
	www.hcs.harvard.edu /hrgsp/repertoire.php (601 words)

	W. S. Gilbert Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gilbert became a stickler that his actors interpret his work only in the manner he desired.
		This proved to be a false start in the men's collaborative efforts.
		While working with Sullivan on the Savoy Operas, Gilbert continued to write plays to be performed elsewhere, both serious dramas (i.e.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/w/w_/w__s__gilbert.html (533 words)

	H.M.S. Pinafore - W.S. Gilbert/Arthur Sullivan
		Neither man's separate compositions ever had the success, fame, or impact of the fourteen comic operettas they wrote together.
		The operetta's humor appeals to a wide range of tastes.
		History records Arthur Sullivan's irritation that his reputation rested largely on his comic operettas rather than on what he considered his more serious music.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/HMSPinafore.htm (926 words)

	Gilbert and Sullivan
		In the 1860s, the British musical theatre consisted of variety shows, French operettas, and the slapdash comic light operas presented by John Hollingshead at The Gaiety Theatre.
		Gilbert and Sullivan were developing a form of British operetta that was quite unlike its continental predecessors.
		The overt sexual references and situations found in French operetta were altogether avoided.
	www.musicals101.com /gilbert.htm (709 words)

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		It is more important that these authors' plays are produced in the manner that their authors intended, and thus it could be argued that Gilbert indirectly encouraged the creation of their work.
		In 1871, John Hollingshead commissioned Gilbert to work with Sullivan to create the Grotesque Operetta Thespis, or The Gods Grown Old for the Christmas season at the Gaiety Theatre.
		It was his backers who stood in the way of the initial plans to revise and revive Thespis, insisting that they wanted a new work for their money and thereby losing Thespis to posterity as the full vocal score was never published.
	www.brujula.net /english/wiki/W._S._Gilbert.html (980 words)

	Gilbert and Sullivan Opening Songs quiz -- free game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This operetta begins with the rousing chorus, 'Pour, oh Pour the Pirate Sherry'.
		This operetta opens with a group of dainty fairies singing 'Tripping hither, tripping thither'.
		This operetta opens with a group of Japanese noblemen singing 'If you want to know who we are'.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=194548 (230 words)

	Amazon.com: Operetta: A Theatrical History: Books: Richard Traubner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This entertaining and thorough examination of operetta remains the only complete, richly-illustrated history available of a delightful form of musical theater which has enraptured audiences around the world for over a century.
		ACCORDING to most French dictionaries of the mid-nineteenth century, the word operette was taken from the German Operette, itself derived from the Italian term operetta.
		However, the majority of operettas are now period pieces, fascinating in Mr.
	amazon.com /Operetta-Theatrical-History-Richard-Traubner/dp/0195207785 (1557 words)

	Thespis - Everything on Thespis (information, latest news, articles,...)
		Thespis - Everything on Thespis (information, latest news, articles,...)
		This article is about the historical figure; see also Thespis (operetta).
		In 534 BC, mostly likely on what would have been November 23, Thespis took the stage at the Dionysian theatre during a choral song and dance, and became the first man to take on the role of a character in a story.
	www.spiritus-temporis.com /thespis (390 words)

	Robert's Gilbert & Sullivan List
		This is a list of all Operettas that I have done since 1985.
		You'll notice that for some years I was in two operettas.
		(not counting Thespis since most of the music is lost).
	schaap.com /gs.html (62 words)

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		Thespis of Icaria (6th century BCE) is claimed to be the first person...
		Thespis is said to have introduced the first featured actor into dramatic performances which previously were presented exclusively by the chorus.
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	thespis - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Thespis : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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