- Source: After All
After All may refer to:
Music
After All!, a one-act comic opera
After All (Canadian band), a band later known as Pure
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After All, an album by Luciano
After All, an album by Bobby Bland
After All..., an album by Motoi Sakuraba
= Songs
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"After All" (All Saints song)
"After All" (Cher and Peter Cetera song)
"After All" (David Bowie song)
"After All" (Delerium song)
"After All" (Ed Bruce song)
"After All" (The Miracles song), covered by The Supremes
"After All", by Air Supply from Air Supply
"After All", by Al Jarreau from High Crime
"After All", by Brett James
"After All", by Collective Soul from Blender
"After All", by Dar Williams from The Green World
"After All", by Electric Light Orchestra from Secret Messages
"After All", by The Frank and Walters
"After All", by Patty Loveless from Patty Loveless
"After All", by Pet Shop Boys from Concrete
"After All", by Saving Abel, a non-album B-side from Saving Abel
"After All", by Whitesnake from Flesh & Blood
"After All (I Live My Life)", a song by Frankie Miller from Once in a BMoon
Literature
After All, an autobiography by actress Mary Tyler Moore
After All, a novel by Mary Cholmondeley
After All, a play by John Van Druten
Afterall, a contemporary art journal- Source: After All!
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 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.
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. 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. ... [They] 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.
Synopsis
Selworthy returns from many years in the Americas to seek his youthful sweetheart Perdita, and calls upon his old pal Pennyfather only to discover that Perdita is now Mrs. Pennyfather. He is heartbroken, but on learning from his friend what a henpecking, overbearing and overweight woman his sweetheart has now become, realises that he has had a lucky escape and that he really can forgive Pennyfather After All!
Song list
No. 1. True, True Love! – Selworthy
No. 2. The Solicitor's Song: Up A Little Early – Pennyfather
No. 3. It's Missus – Maria
No. 4. Strictly Proper – Pennyfather and Selworthy
Roles and original cast
Pennyfather – Rutland Barrington
Selworthy – Richard Temple
Maria – Jessie Bond
Offstage voice – J. Hervey
The offstage voice was originally played by Jennie Sullivan, Arthur Sullivan's cousin under the name J. Hervey. The role is not mentioned after the first few weeks or months of the run. Jessie Bond in her autobiography mentions her spoonerism "The missus is having such a cow with the rabman", which comes from this piece.
After Bond left for America in 1879, Julia Gwynne took over the role of Maria. C. H. Workman played Pennyfeather in the 1895-97 revivals. Emmie Owen played Maria in the 1895–96 revivals. Jones Hewson played Selworthy in the 1895-97 revivals.
Notes
References
After All! at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive
List of Savoy opera curtain raisers
External links
Article on Savoy curtain raisers
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