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About 65 years ago, Ulathore Grammar School in Coventry England, put on HMS Pinafore in which I played a Cousin Hebe, very very badly. It was such an uplifting feeling to find this video with such good performers, and I was singing along with my painfully tone deaf voice.
There has been a clip of "Never mind the why and wherefore" from this available for a while, to have the whole performance is wonderful - thanks. The acting is so good.
That was a great performance! Thanks for uploading it. This was the school play at RAF Grammar School Singapore in 1968 or 69 and this brings back many wonderful memories. I never realised how humorous and clever this opera is. Now with years of experience behind me I'm very impressed and surprised.
I think it’s funniest when the production makes no attempt to square that circle. Just like it’s absurd for Corcoran and Ralph to switch costumes (and accents) when they have no idea what’s going on on deck, it’s equally absurd for a guy clearly not a day over 25 to have shared a childhood with a man clearly twice his age. Gilbert loved resolving his complicated plots with a line or two of dialogue that shouldn’t work, but does just because it’s funny.
The characters will be cast as age appropriate in the non-singing documentary version. I'm sure we all await that with ...well... Maybe better as a musical!
Hmmm... I don't know. I think this libretto - however magnificently set to music - is something of a tall tale. But yet... maybe I've been baby farmed and switched, too! I have always felt myself to be a 19th century British nobleman - in sentiment and inclinations at least. Hmmmm...
... Who was it, exactly, that sir Joseph ended up with? I thought she was one of the aunts, originally, which would be fitting and similarly degenerating to all parties.
Josephine had a beautiful voice but her singing was very affected and she made no attempt to sound young, she sounded middle aged. G&S requires acting in the singing as well as the dialogue. The others were wonderful.
@@vivianalperin5555 What a ridiculous response! As if no-one can have critical insights into a performance unless they do it themselves. So, no tenor can comment on a soprano etc... reductio ad absurdum!
