Synopsis

Herbert Appleman has re-worked H.M.S PINAFORE, Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operetta masterpiece, about two lovebirds from different backgrounds -- a lowly sailor and his upper-class lass -- who aren't aware that after their birth they were mistakenly delivered by their foster mother to the wrong parents.

Why do DEADEYE when you can do PINAFORE?

THE LONDON CRITICS TELL YOU WHY!

Robert Hewison in the Sunday Times gave the production 4 stars and commended Ian Talbot "for choosing Herbert Appleman's version rather than the Savoy Opera original."

Rebecca Tyrell in the Sunday Telegraph had a "deliriously happy evening on board the HMS Pinafore, thanks to the wonderfully entertaining version by Herbert Appleman."

Mark Shenton in Stage Online also expressed thanks for "a libretto that has been extensively revised by Herbert Appleman and thereby rescues a show that has become mired in tradition and gives it a fresh and refreshing lick of energy."

And everyone agreed with Michael Billington, who wrote, in the Guardian, that Ian Talbot's production of Herbert Appleman's new version "achieves that touch of ecstasy that is the sina qua non of all good musicals."

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