There are several versions of the Minstrel Song on RU-vid. This version is fun, but for me, it's hard to beat the Seattle G&S version of July 2009. They added amusing verses that referenced topical political headlines of the day.
This is brilliant! Thank you for sharing! The timing, the voices, the originality - all were superb. Surely Gilbert & Sullivan themselves would have thoroughly approved of this wonderful performance.
Oh, gracious… she’s on the wrong side of the wheel, and facing the wrong direction! She should be on the other side of it, and facing it instead of alongside….
I’d like to hear you sing the same song. Just shut up if you can’t say anything nice. I wonder if you have any music/theatre credentials....I thought so! 🙄🖐🏼🎤
Minerva! Minerva! Oh, hear me: Oh, goddess wise That lovest light Endow with sight Their unillumined eyes. At this my call, A fervent few Have come to woo The rays that from thee fall, That from thee fall. Oh, goddess wise That lovest light, That lovest light, Let fervent words and fervent thoughts be mine, That I may lead them to thy sacred shrine! Let fervent words and fervent thoughts be mine, That I may lead them to thy sacred shrine, I may lead them to thy sacred shrine, Thy sacred shrine!
A great example of conveying emotions and ideas with YOUR HANDS. You could not say a word and your hands would clearly enunciate the lyrics. Good work!
I find this interpretation very intriguing. The baby doll adds a very childlike quality to Margaret's character. Adds for more business as well. I quite liked the "have you killed anybody" bit. Stomping the baby doll added a good transition. Also perhaps the dream of having children, a marriage with Despard, is represented through her mothering. I really liked your interpretation, however different from my own.
this reminds of the Movie movie foul play where there was an albino and the midget who were trying to assassinate the Pope, who was up in the balcony watching this play while the Midget/Albino was trying to kill him.
This is a great video and you have the nicest voice I've ever heard in a G&S production! Those people chattering all the way through it need to be hanged, drawn and quartered though.
My Mum was a colotura soprano in these comic operas. In the Mikado she was Yum Yum. In Trial by Jury, the plaintiff. In Pirates, Mabel. She was with the company on Broadway in 1948, her first look at the US. She was with them from 1945-1948. Gwyneth Cullimore.
I have great admiration for Mad Margaret and the restrained enthusiasm of her "blameless dances". I judge that you have captured and reflected the true nature of our nearly Holy Trinity of Gilbert, Sullivan and D'Oly Carte. Bravo to you and your side kick ... DELIGHTFUL!
Such sadness lies in the words "The World is but a broken toy, its pleasures hollow false its joy, unreal its lovliest hue, Alas its pains alone are true" that Gilbert wrote just a decade after "[With] joy unbounded the knell is sounded of grief and woe" (in Trial by Jury). A lovely performance, Sharon. Hilarion only flubbed the first line of: <i>The world is ev'rything you say, The world we think has had its day.</i>
