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''After All!'' is a one-act comic opera with a libretto by Frank Desprez and music by Alfred Cellier. It was first performed at the Savoy Theatre under the management of Richard D'Oyly Carte, along with ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' and another short piece, ''Cups and Saucers'', from December 1878 to February 1880. ==Background and productions== During the original run of ''After All'', in 1879, Richard D'Oyly Carte, Gilbert and Sullivan broke up the "Comedy Opera Company" that they had formed in 1877 to present the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The former directors of the that company staged a rival version ''Pinafore'', along with ''After All'', but their versions were not as popular as Carte's. Later, ''After All'' played with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company children's ''Pinafore'' (and ''In the Sulks''), from February to March 1880; with ''The Mikado'' from November 1895 to March 1896; with ''The Grand Duke'' from April to July 1896; with ''The Mikado'' from July to August 1896; and with ''The Yeomen of the Guard'' from May to June 1897. The piece was also performed on tour on numerous occasions until at least 1909, including a 1908 touring revival.〔(After All revival ) STA Catalogue - Event Details, accessed 18 October 2009〕 The piece contains only four songs, all of which were separately published (by Metzler) and are in the British Library. The fashion in the late Victorian era was to present long evenings in the theatre, and so producer Richard D'Oyly Carte preceded his Savoy operas with curtain raisers.〔Lee Bernard. ("Swash-buckling Savoy curtain-raiser", ) ''Sheffield Telegraph'', 1 August 2008〕 W. J. MacQueen-Pope commented, concerning such curtain raisers: :This was a one-act play, seen only by the early comers. It would play to empty boxes, half-empty upper circle, to a gradually filling stalls and dress circle, but to an attentive, grateful and appreciative pit and gallery. Often these plays were little gems. They deserved much better treatment than they got, but those who saw them delighted in them. ... () served to give young actors and actresses a chance to win their spurs ... the stalls and the boxes lost much by missing the curtain-raiser, but to them dinner was more important.〔MacQueen-Pope, Walter James. ''Carriages at Eleven'' (1947), London: Robert Hale and Co., p. 23〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「After All!」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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