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From Follett
"Original production premiered at the Opera Comique on May 28, 1878"--Page 3. "Able seaman Ralph Rackstraw is love struck with a lass above his station--the captain's daughter. But the captain of the Pinafore has promised his daughter's hand to The Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, KBC (First Lord of the Admiralty--followed everywhere by his sisters and his cousins and his aunts). A common person can hardly expect to compete with a high-born person ... but are Ralph and the captain really from different classes? Poor Little Buttercup, the bumboat lady, has a secret ... Who will end up with whom?"--Page 4 of cover.