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MabelJane
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« Reply #15 on: 23:54:04, 14-11-2008 »
Quote from: Don Basilio on 20:54:11, 07-11-2008

But some of the great G&S lovers of this board are no longer around.

Ah, leave me not to pine, alone and desolate.
Kiss

PS Hope you don't mind the teeny correction!

Patience was my first G&S on stage, as a lovesick maiden - lovely show to perform in.
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« Reply #16 on: 13:34:38, 15-11-2008 »
I gave Patience another spin this morning and also read the libretto carefully, the use of language is quite amazing and so satirical and mocking. 

Whether I go further down the G&S path I don't know because I wouldn't know which others to choose.  I am a bit miffed because there was a production of The Mikado a few months ago which I dithered about and eventually decided against because I thought I would not enjoy it, now I find I might have enjoyed it!
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« Reply #17 on: 21:06:15, 16-11-2008 »
Quote from: Antheil on 13:34:38, 15-11-2008

Whether I go further down the G&S path I don't know because I wouldn't know which others to choose.

If you have free choice, then PIRATES OF PENZANCE or HMS PINAFORE would both be good, and they tend to come round for Xmas-season productions.  But any of them LIVE would be good - sadly there are a great many over-camped productions on dvd.  I would go a long way to avoid any of the series of "Brent-Walker Productions" videos, which are uniformly awful (dubbed singing, heavy cuts, acting that's pure wind-dried prosciutto).

"First rule of Comedy, Spike - play it straight."
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« Reply #18 on: 17:06:24, 17-11-2008 »
They're all good, but HMS Pinafore is their earliest hit, and I always feel it is lacking something.

When I first heard hits from The Pirates of Penzance at the age of six on my father's 78s, I was not familiar with Verdi.  But a really good parody can be amusing even if you don't know what's being sent up.  I only just made the connection between Su del lido del sacro Nilo in Aida and Go ye, heros, go to glory in Pirates.

The Mikado is their best work, although I know at least one G&S enthusiast round here who has got tired of it as a result of overexposure.  But it is the one I would go for, if you ask me.

 
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