Trivia / H.M.S. Pinafore

• Corpsing: Martyn Green recalled one performance with the D'Oyly Carte opera company that was interrupted when a sudden orchestral Scare Chord in the number "Carefully On Tiptoe Stealing" startled a theater cat, which ran screaming across the stage. The cast might have been able to recover and carry on with the show, if only the next two lines hadn't been:
  Chorus: Goodness me, why what was that?
  Dick Deadeye: Silent be, it was the cat!

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