H.M.S. Pinafore 1999

July 10, 11, 1999

During one of the weekend’s concerts, the children of some of the Gilbert & Sullivan Very Light Opera Company members spent all of Act I drawing, with chalk on the pavement below the lip of the stage, an elaborate depiction of shark-infested waters, with the words, “Dick Deadeye, jump here!” inside the mouth of the biggest shark.  At the end of Act I, when Matt Dolph, as Dick Deadeye, was obliged to leap off the stage to escape the wrath of his shipmates, he kindly made a point of landing exactly in the mouth of the shark, to the delight of the children.