The Gondoliers

• Original London Production (1889)
  London, England
• Broadway Production (1890)
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1893) *
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1898) *
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1931) *
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1934)
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1935) *
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1936) *
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1939) *
  New York, NY
• Broadway Revival (1940)
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1942) *
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1944) *
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1948) *
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1951) *
  New York, NY
• City Center Revival (1961)
• American Savoyard Revival (1961) *
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1962) *
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1962) *
  New York, NY
• Unknown (1964) *
  New York, NY
• American Savoyard Revival (1965) *
  New York, NY
• LOOM Revival (1980) *
  New York, NY
• LOOM Revival (1985) *
  New York, NY
• Reading (2002) *
  New York, NY
• Reading (2003) *
  New York, NY

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Original score

• List and Learn
• Good Morrow, Pretty Maids
• For the Merriest Fellows Are We
• Buon Giorno, Signorine
• We're Called Gondolieri
• And Now to Choose Our Brides
• My Papa, He Keeps Three Horses
• Thank You, Gallant Gondolieri
• From the Sunny Spanish Shore
• In the Enterprise of Martial Kind
• O Rapture, When Alone Together
• There Was a Time, A Time Forever Gone
• I Stole the Prince, And I Brought Him Here
• But Bless My Heart
• Try We Life Long
• Bridegroom and Bride
• When a Merry Maiden Marries
• Kind Sir, You Cannot Have the Heart
• Then One of Us Will Be a Queen
• For Ev'ry One Who Feels Inclined
• Now, Marco, Dear, My Wishes Hear
• Then Away They Go to an Island Fair
• Oh Happiness the Very Pith in Barataria
• Rising Early in the Morning
• Take a Pair of Sparkling Eyes
• Here We Are, At the Risk of Our Lives
• Dance a Cachucha
• There Lived a King
• In a Contemplative Fashion
• With Ducal Pomp and Ducal Pride
• On the Day When I Was Wedded
• To Help Unhappy Commoners
• I Am a Courtier Grave and Serious
• Here Is a Case Unprecedented
• Now Let the Loyal Lieges Gather Round
• This Statement We Receive
• Once More Gondolieri

Recordings listed here were done in the studio specifically to release as recordings. They do not represent cast recordings of a particular production.

• Studio Cast (1991)
  Jill Pert , Richard Suart , Elizabeth Woolett , Philip Creasy , David Fieldsend

Two just-married Venitian gondoliers are informed by the Grand Inquisitor that one of them has just become the King of "Barataria", but only their foster mother, presently at large, knows which one. As Barataria needs a king to put down unrest in the country, they travel there to reign jointly, leaving their wives behind in Venice until the old lady can be interviewed. It turns out that the king was wed in infancy to the beautiful daughter of the Spanish Duke of Plaza Toro, and so it seems he is an unintentional bigamist. Of course, the beautiful daughter is in love with a common servant! When the young Spaniard and the two Venitian wives all show up wanting to know which of them is queen, complications arise. No worries: The true identity of the king is revealed, and all is combed out spectacularly well by the end.

See the general comments to the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas under TRIAL BY JURY.

• The Gondoliers, or, the King of Barataria (full title)