| Pineapple Poll | |
|---|---|
| Choreographer | John Cranko |
| Music | Arthur Sullivan arranged by Charles Mackerras |
| Based on | "The Bumboat Woman's Story" by W. S. Gilbert |
| Premiere | 13 March 1951 Sadler's Wells Theatre |
| Original ballet company | Sadler's Wells Ballet |
| Setting | Portsmouth, England and on board the H.M.S. Hot Cross Bun |
| Genre | Neoclassical ballet |
| Type | comic ballet |
Pineapple Poll is a Gilbert and Sullivan-inspired comic ballet, created by choreographer John Cranko with arranger Sir Charles Mackerras. Pineapple Poll is based on "The Bumboat Woman's Story", one of W. S. Gilbert's Bab Ballads, written in 1870. The Gilbert and Sullivan opera H.M.S. Pinafore was also based, in part, on this story. For the ballet, Cranko expanded the story of the Bab Ballad and added a happy ending. All the music is arranged from Sullivan's music.
The piece premiered in 1951 at Sadler's Wells Theatre and was given many revivals internationally during the following decades. It remains in the repertoire of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. It has also been recorded many times.