THE D'OYLY CARTE OPERA COMPANY

W. D. Marks (1880)

W. D. Marks toured North America as the Pirate King with D'Oyly Carte's Third American Pirates of Penzance Company between February and July 1880. It was his only D'Oyly Carte experience. He would, however, get the opportunity to send up his own role in Tony Pastor's burlesque The Pie-Rats of Penn-Yann (Tony Pastor's Music Hall, New York, February-March 1881). He was Peter, King of the Prowlers, in a cast that included Lillian Russell as Maria, "formerly called Mabel."



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