In its 1989 production, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company restored one of the original versions of the finale, which finishes with a variation of "I am the very model of a modern major-general", rather than with the customary reprise of "Poor wand'ring one",See Bradley (1982), pp. 158–159 but in later revivals, it reverted to the more familiar text.
In its 1989 production the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company restored one of the original versions of the finale which finishes with a variation of "I am the very model of a modern major-general" rather than with the customary reprise of "Poor wand'ring one"See Bradley (1982) pp 158–159 but in later revivals it reverted to the more familiar text