"Little Butterball" ("Little Buttercup")

Gilbert and Sullivan's Little Buttercup sings, in the same key as Azucena's narrative, "How bitter is my cup,/ how ever could I do it?

(1986) (songs: "The Ballad of the Three Amigos", "My Little Buttercup", and "Blue Shadows")

Drake's role became a sure thing for matinee idols, even those of a certain age; Morison's tour de force invited challenges from Lucia di Lammermoors as well as Little Buttercups.

The Amigos perform a show at the Cantina, singing "My Little Buttercup", and leave the locals bemused.

In December of that year, she began to play the role of Little Buttercup in H.M.S. Pinafore, on tour, as well as Lady Sophy.

-'Little Buttercup.'

For I'm Little Buttercup, sweet Little Buttercup.

The Gilbert and Sullivan opera H.M.S. Pinafore (especially its character Little Buttercup) was also based, in part, on this story.

The theatrical paper The Era wrote, "The Little Buttercup of Miss Alice Barnett comes in for the lion's share of approbation."