Rutland Barrington as Strephon in an 1895 revival of Happy Arcadia
Happy Arcadia is a musical entertainment with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music originally by Frederic Clay that premiered on 28 October 1872 at the Royal Gallery of Illustration. It was one of four collaborations between Gilbert and Clay between 1869 and 1876. The music is lost. The piece is a satire on the genre of pastoral plays in which the characters, who each wish that they could be someone else, have their wish granted, with unhappy results.
Gilbert and Sullivan later produced a popular comic opera, Iolanthe in which two of the characters, Strephon and Phyllis, are "Arcadian" shepherds. Phyllis, like Chloe, is torn between two suitors. The character of Lycidas also anticipates the character of Archibald Grosvenor in Patience, who is cursed with perfect beauty.
HappyArcadia is a musical entertainment with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music originally by Frederic Clay that premiered on 28 October 1872 at the...
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Saturday evening at Jacobsdal, called the "Feast of the Gods" in the happyArcadia. Ulfeldt was god Jupiter, Pimentel was dressed as a war god Mars and...
became more eminent in his field. Gilbert worked with Frederic Clay on HappyArcadia (1872) and Alfred Cellier on Topsyturveydom (1874) and wrote The Wicked...
writers of the 19th century. Gilbert had written an earlier work called HappyArcadia. He had also created several "fairy comedies" at the Haymarket Theatre...
Topsyturveydom is set in a quasi-utopia (reminiscent of Gilbert's earlier HappyArcadia (1872), or even Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels), where things are...
and created a dozen theatrical works, including HappyArcadia in 1872; The Wicked World, The Happy Land and The Realm of Joy in 1873; Charity, Topsyturveydom...
drama series Joan of Arcadia. Next, he played a young man struggling to come terms with his sexuality in the dark comedy Happy Endings (2005), with Stephen...
German Reed pieces: Our Island Home (1870), A Sensation Novel (1871), HappyArcadia (1872), and Eyes and No Eyes (1875). She also starred in Dora's Dream...
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the sleeper hit "Bruises". In 2014, she released her first solo project, Arcadia, as Ramona Lisa. Under CEP, she released Drawing the Target Around the...
Belgium. Ages Ago, No Cards, Our Island Home, A Sensation Novel and HappyArcadia all feature 5 actors. See, for example Nos. 14 and 15 of Ages Ago, where...
performances. The next three, In Possession (1871, for German Reed), HappyArcadia (1872, with Gilbert), and Oriana (1873, with James Albery) all had short...
Curiazi Frederic Clay (1838–1889): Ages Ago, The Gentleman in Black, HappyArcadia, Princess Toto Thomas Clayton (1673–1725): Rosamond, Arsinoe, Queen...
including No Cards, Ages Ago, Our Island Home, A Sensation Novel, HappyArcadia, and Eyes and No Eyes. Several of these pieces had ideas in embryonic...
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period, including Ages Ago (1869), The Gentleman in Black (1870) and HappyArcadia (1872), all written with W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911). The Savoy opera...
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