PLAYBILL VAULT'S Today In Theatre History: DECEMBER 31
1879 World premiere of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York, with Alice Barnett as Ruth.
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