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| Harry Standish as the Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance |
Harry Standish (1880-81)
Harry Standish took what was likely his first Gilbert & Sullivan role in March 1879 as Bob Becket in a pirate H.M.S. Pinafore at Boston's Gaiety Theatre. He was later selected to tour as Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance, and assistant stage manager, with D'Oyly Carte's Third American Pirates Company from February to July 1880. In September 1880 Carte launched another American touring Pirates Company. It ran until February 1881 with Standish as the Sergeant for its duration. Standish was then engaged by E. E. Rice to appear as Sir Mincing Lane in Stephens and Solomon's Billee Taylor at the Standard Theatre, New York, in May 1881.
Standish subsequently served as stage director for a March 1882 non-D'Oyly Carte revival of The Pirates of Penzance at New York's Bijou Opera House, and appeared as Mr. Bunthorne's Solicitor in Patience at the same theatre later that year. Both engagements were with the [John A.] McCaull Opera Company. He appeared in several musical works over the next decade or so, his last appearance in a New York musical coming in 1895 as Ginger in The 20th Century Girl.
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