Alice Oates

Alice Oates (22 September 1849 – 10 January 1887) was an actress, theatre manager and pioneer of American musical theatre who took opéra bouffe in English to all corners of America. She produced the first performance of a work by Gilbert and Sullivan in America with her unauthorised ''Trial by Jury'' in 1875, the first American production of ''The Sultan of Mocha'' (1878) and an early performance of ''H.M.S. Pinafore'' (1878). Provided by Wikipedia