I only just noticed that this is, what seems to be, her first time drinking alcohol. She sniffs her first champagne before drinking it. She runs off multiple times to sneak more champagne for herself. And of course “A tar who ploughs the daughter.” Just little bits of acting that go unnoticed. I love it
She sneaks glances askance before pouring herself a glass. She was an experienced drinker before champagne was called by the unfortunate eye of his lordship
ok, if you are going to update G&S, this is certainly the way to do it. "I'll out-fox your trot, Lord Porter" is very clever, "won't see this at D'Oyly Carte" is a nice touch, and I almost fell off my chair laughing at "the tar who plows the daughter"...
I wish I had seen this 9 years earlier so I could respond to this in time. But shit time flies and 9 years later I am feeling the exact same thing you did!
@@steerpike1359 This is a bad take, G&S understood the value of not being stuffy and creating an entertaining play, and that ad-lib, improvisation and interpretation are the lifeblood of theater. They wouldn't want lines wasted on references lost of most of the audience, the play should be entertaining in and of itself and "updated" gags don't lower the play just because it's more accessible. If you want a completely accurate historical version of the play I'm sure they're around.
@@steerpike1359 All I can say is that I would have never seen the entire play in "traditional" format, but I watched this whole version and enjoyed it when it was up on youtube. There's no reason to not have "as written" versions for purists and historical interest, and then updated "fun" versions for the rest of us that just want to be entertained on terms we can understand better
@@Spikeelsucko Excellent take, Spik. I am reminded of a certain quote from the late Freddie Mercury: “You can do what you want with my music, but don't make me boring.”
There's a wonderful tradition, that originated in D'Oyly Carte, to "embellish" this trio with spoof verses. This version is totally true to that tradition.
@@peterfireflylund It's possible. I've read that "plow" may be the origin of the word "fuck", which I wouldn't be surprised Gilbert knew: From linguitleteis.tumblr.com/post/39141549801/origin-of-the-word-fuck#:~:text=plow : Yet another possible etymology [for fuck] is from the Old High German word pfluog, meaning “to plow, as in a field.” So the slang use of "plow" may be quite ancient.
John English! (26 March 1949 - 9 March 2016). Rest in peace. Thanks for sharing your love of performing, regardless of the genre. You have now truly achieved legend status!
@@tepesobrejac4360 a "Tar" or a "Jacktar" was, in the 1890s when Gilbert and Sullivan wrote this opera, a common sailor. This comes from either the tarring of rope aboard a ship, or the tarring of work clothes. To "plow" a woman is a ribald euphemism for sex. Fornication. The song is about the Captain's daughter, and how her father wants her to marry his boss, the Lord of the Admiralty. But she is in love with a common Tar. The Lord of the Admiralty, being of the upper class, assumes her reluctance to marry him was because she was awed by his nobility, so he assures her that love shouldn't care about social class. This is why she jokes that he "makes his rival's case", because she can marry the common sailor with a clear conscience if rank does not matter.
I love the addition of new verses. I think the traditional encores are a lot of fun, but this gives something new to people who have seen the usual oh so many times
I love it when she said and the tar who plows the daughter when I first heard it I was only 12 or 13 so had no idea what was so funny about it until I was in my mid teens. From then on I don't think I'll ever forget it.
5:01, after all the funny antics Sir Joseph got up to before with his nervousness, I found it JUST TOO FUNNY!!! I swear I was just an INCH from death by laughter!
Oh, May all the Gods of Athens and Rome bless Gilbert and Sullivan! The muses have gifted these two gentlemen with such wit and rhythm that we poor ungifted mortals can only dream of... "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore!"
Yeah, I was quite disappointed to find that that line seems to be unique to this version, or at least this is the only version I've seen on RU-vid that includes it.
Wow, people get so worked up over this! Why do people care if someone updates a production that has been interpreted the same way for well over 100 years... different century, different humour, different demographic if you don't like Essgee there are a plethora of more traditional interpretations that you can watch... This comment may be irrelevant because most of the negative comments I read are from a couple of years ago but still! I am so so happy that this exists! I fall asleep watching any other version of G & S! "rumpy pumpy" hehe
brokenhallelujah87. Because it's not good. I don't want to see an "updated" anything where some unfunny modern hack shoves his own horseshit into a classic.
attended "Pirates of Penzance" many years ago by D'Oyly Carte in Boston. to see on video is one thing but in person, truly a once in a lifetime experience.
What a joy to find this! I loved watching the original essgee productions of G&S and seeing this reminds me why. Was unaware it had been released on DVD, now I have to go find it!
”I am the senate of the Sea/the ruler of the imperial navee, Whose praise great Coruscant loudly chant/and so does his apprentice, his cousin, and his aunt ”
@Tillyvalle Sullivan yes... Gilbert would've enjoyed the snarkiness, though, I think he'd be "nudging" Sullivan up there and saying, "Oh, lighten up, Arthur!" ;) But both were great, geniuses... I think Gilbert as a storyteller is underrated, and sometimes thought just good with Sullivan- but the truthi is its Gilbert AND Sullivan... one alone is great, but BOTH TOGETHER...
Some would say "The Pirates of Penzance" or "The Sorcerer" may be as famed as "HMS Pinafore" and "Mikado". But why would we argue, Gilbert and Sullivan could seem to do no wrong in my opinion! Exquisite!
@XlightassassenX I'll admit many of the new lyrics in this production are really just quite silly, but I really think "I'll out-fox your trot, Lord Porter" is awfully clever, and very fun.
Gosh, we're scared and gosh, we're frightened, 'Cause our itty-bitty new friend Has his teeny-weeny brain all set On blowing us to bits. O, how horrible, deplorable, This really is the pits!
And furthermore, may the blessings of Olympus be upon them who have so bravely and fiercely butchered the verses that the muses hath enspired to the original authors!
I couldn't help laughing when I saw Sir Joseph's facial expressions (especially in the few minutes of this clip) and the way he talks; very funny. The play seems to have been updated a little bit, according to my research the line "and a tar who plows the daughter", wasn't in the original; instead that particular line was "and a tar who plows the water"
lol, I have always slipt that line in myself, I sung along with "and a tar who plows his daughter" by mistake once and always sung that afterwards ;p Cultural Filth you may believe it to be but most stuck up prudes said the same thing to their original performances...no offense.
People always forget that all this high-brow shit that stuff't shirt snobs think they're so much better than the commonfolk for liking and try to gatekeep - whether it's Gilbert & Sullivan or Billy Shakespeare - was considered low-brow shit for the common folk. The main section of Shakespeare's Globe Theater was one big, seatless moshpit-type area that was very VERY cheap to get into if not outright free, so that the average peasant could enjoy the show, while the upper classes paid to sit way up above them in the balconies. And the performances could get damn rowdy as the commoners would harass and heckle the actors, even throw shit at them if the play was a bomb or the actors were botching their performance. It was far from the stuffed-shirt, champagne & monocles, high-society, "Well I SAY, old sport!" type of affair that performances of Shakespeare's plays are thought of today. And Gilbert & Sullivan's whole entire thing is relentless mocking of the ridiculous, self-serious, stuffy, humorless, uptight dipshits who comprised the upper class in their day and HATED their plays ("...and whistle all the airs from that INFERNAL NONSENSE _Pinafore!_ -The Major General, _The Pirates of Penzance_ by G&S). But of course now that same class of self-serious, stuffy assholes have appropriate their works.
Magnificent casting, beautiful costumes, backdrop and staging and choreography- it’s of the highest I have ever seen in this production - but sadly the organ accompaniment ( as skilled as it is) spoils this production for me - these talented singers and actors are undermined by the musical accompaniment, a great shame in my opinion
@MrSwifts31 That must have been a wonderful (if often grueling) experience. Of course, performers have been trying to add stage business ever since Barrington on the grounds that it gets a laugh. And Gilbert's unaswerable riposte was so would it if you sat down on a pork pie. OK, "tar that plows the daughter" is pretty funny. The real crime here is as you say--replacing Sullivan's great orchestration with cheap synthesized crap.
