Gilbert And Sullivan
Not Even Good for a Concert: A concert version of a smattering of G & S tunes is a questionable concept from the outset, I suppose, but this presentation is definitely poor even for a concert version. At least one of the main vocalists doesn't even [... more]
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Gilbert And Sullivan
Been there seen that..and sung along!: I am dating myself a bit, but I had the considerable joy to have seen most of the Stratford musicals live when I was a child. I have terrific memories of especially the Mikado, the Gondoliers and Iolanthe. Previous [... more]
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Iolanthe - Gilbert & Sullivan
From Amazon.com: Even by the unreal standards of Gilbert and Sullivan, Iolanthe is a fanciful piece of work, in which Fairyland meets the House of Lords. Needless to say, the lords--a superbly dimwitted bunch--don't triumph. The title character was once [... more]
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Gilbert And Sullivan
From Amazon.com: A set of three stage performances taped in the theater by Canada's Stratford Festival in the 1980s, these productions of the Gilbert & Sullivan favorites The Mikado,The Pirates of Penzance, and Iolanthe (each is also available [... more]
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Gilbert And Sullivan
From Amazon.com: From a 1984 performance (live, but with many voices dubbed) at Canada's Stratford Festival comes this version of Iolanthe, the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta in which the residents of Fairyland confront the House of Lords. A work in its [... more]
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Gilbert And Sullivan
From Amazon.com: In this production, Opera Australia meets and brilliantly overcomes a special kind of challenge--what we might call historically informed comedy. Patience raises problems different from and harder to negotiate than in The Mikado, H.M.S. [... more]
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Gilbert And Sullivan: 1966: Mikado
So Good I Had To Review A Second Time: The release of the 1966 D'Oyly Carte Opera production of The Mikado on DVD in 2003-2004 was a capital idea. Gilbert and Sullivan fans have been waiting years for the classic film to appear on DVD. VAI (Video Artists [... more]
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Gilbert & Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance / Kline, ...
From Amazon.com: This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, tiny technical shortcomings, a live 1980 performance in Central Park, not the 1983 [... more]
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Ruddigore - Gilbert & Sullivan
From Amazon.com: Ruddigore, a pseudo-melodramatic ghost story, became most famous for the moment when the portraits of Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd's ancestors spring to life and demand that he uphold the family curse of performing a crime every day. Less [... more]
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Gilbert & Sullivan - The Pirates of Penzance / Jon ...
A Parody of a Parody doesn't work: I am a G & S purist and resent the wholesale changes that were made in the production of this operetta. Obviously, the audience viewing the performance enjoyed the slapstick that went on, particularly in the first [... more]
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Gilbert & Sullivan - H.M.S. Pinafore / Trial By Jury - ...
Sparkling G & S signals a new era in Australian opera: Since their earliest days at Sydney's iconic Opera House, Opera Australia (formerly The Australian Opera) has had a tradition of filming important productions for television broadcast by the [... more]
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Patience - Gilbert & Sullivan
From Amazon.com: A favorite of many Gilbert and Sullivan aficionados, Patience is not for every taste. This satire of pretentious poets and their swooning followers, mocking the 1880s cult of aestheticism, touches a nerve in any celebrity-obsessed age. [... more]
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