Editing H.M.S. Pinafore (section)

===Children's production===
[[File:Grattanpin.jpg|thumb|1880 programme for Carte's ''Children's Pinafore'']]
The unauthorised juvenile productions of ''Pinafore'' were so popular<ref>Wills, Matthew. [https://daily.jstor.org/topsy-turvy-children-in-adult-roles/ "Topsy-Turvy: Children in Adult Roles"], ''[[JSTOR|JSTOR Daily]]'', November 15, 2022</ref> that Carte mounted his own children's version, played at matinees at the Opera Comique beginning on 16 December 1879.<ref>Kanthor, Hal. [http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/gilbert-and-sullivan/details?Print=29 Links to programme for Carte's "Children's Pinafore"] and [http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/gilbert-and-sullivan/details?Print=37 link to poster for a Boston children's ''Pinafore''], both at ''Gilbert and Sullivan: From London to America'', online exhibition at University of Rochester Libraries, accessed 27 January 2017</ref> [[François Cellier]], who had taken over from his brother as Carte's music director in London, adapted the score for children's voices.<ref name=C&B>Cellier and Bridgeman, chapter entitled [http://gsarchive.net/pinafore/html/making_pinafore.html "The making of ''H.M.S. Pinafore''"], reproduced at The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, accessed 10 March 2009</ref> Between its two Christmas seasons in London, the children's production went on a provincial tour from 2 August 1880 to 11 December 1880.<ref name=Rollins7/>

Carte's children's production earned enthusiastic reviews from the critic [[Clement Scott]]<ref>Scott, Clement. [http://savoyoperas.org.uk/pinafore/childpin.html "Our Play-Box. ''The Children's Pinafore''"], ''The Theatre'', 1 January 1880, new [3rd.] series 1: pp. 38–39, accessed 10 March 2009</ref> and the other London critics, as well as the audiences, including children.<ref name=Stedman175/><ref>[http://gsarchive.net/pinafore/reviews/childrens/801226era.html "The Children's ''Pinafore''"], ''The Era'', 26 December 1880, reprinted at The Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, accessed 6 October 2011</ref> However, Captain Corcoran's curse "Damme!" was uncensored, shocking such prominent audience members as [[Lewis Carroll]],{{refn|Carroll had unsuccessfully sought to collaborate with Sullivan on an adaptation of ''Alice in Wonderland''. This was not the first time that he had written a review expressing outraged indignation against Gilbert and Sullivan. He had objected to their treatment of the clergy in ''The Sorcerer''.<ref>Williams, p.84</ref>|group= n}} who later wrote: "a bevy of sweet innocent-looking girls sing, with bright and happy looks, the chorus 'He said, Damn me! He said, Damn me!' I cannot find words to convey to the reader the pain I felt in seeing those dear children taught to utter such words to amuse ears grown callous to their ghastly meaning&nbsp;... How Mr. Gilbert could have stooped to write, or Sir Arthur Sullivan could have prostituted his noble art to set to music, such vile trash, it passes my skill to understand".<ref>Carroll, Lewis. "The Stage and the Spirit of Reverence", ''Theatre'' magazine, 1 June 1888, reprinted in ''The Lewis Carroll Picture Book'', pp. 175–195, Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (ed.), London: T. Fisher Unwin (1899)</ref><ref>Jacobs, p. 123</ref>