Now that you say it....yep, that's Gaston! (but, fun fact, to confirm to fans that Gaston was actually dead, when he falls there are skulls in his eyes!)
Do you realise that is the part of the big send up that resulted in this operetta. When the new first lord of the admiralty, (who had never been to sea), had to inspect the fleet, he immediately got sick. The fleet were moored in Portsmouth Harbour, but he complained that the ships were still rocking.
Whoever rearranged that score is a real genious! It's contemporary while quite respectful of the original music. Also, the choreography is hilarious and deliciously camp! Congratulations to the entire cast and organization. I hope I have the opportunity to see an Essgee production someday.
@TheRenaissanceman65 stereotypes about sailors being gay because they spend long periods of time surrounded only by other men since traditionally women were bad luck to have aboard military vessels and only men could serve in the military anyway
when i was younger, i thought this a stupid song. Now that im older you can see the beauty of a stupid song sung by people - that believe in it. i love this!
I have never heard a Pinafore captain with such a manly and magnificent voice! The whole cast is wonderful. Truly the best. Thanks for posting. Is there a DVD out there with HD? I'd buy it in a jiffy.
If you go to the about section of the channel, there is a link to Simon Gallaher's website where you can buy the DVDs of several of his G&S productions.
darkangelzephyron I was wondering about that lyric. I was expecting them to change it to "a big, big C" for this production. But nope, they kept the original one.
The lyrics don't help. "I do my best to satisfy you all" "and with you we're quite content" / "never use a big big D" "what never?" "well, hardly ever..."
I cannot stop staring at the fact they intentionally applied two golden buttons in the nipples area of the commander's suit, alongside with extra golden stripes just to underline the pecs. XD
Shame that who owns the rights to this and also The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado all with Jon English too did not transfer them to DVD for all regions. As now they would make a small fortune from all of us fans who want to get their own copies of the complete shows.
I'm not sure of the original Gilbert and Sullivan - though the joke about sailors being homosexuals/gay has existed for several centuries - this particular production seems to definitely to be loaded with innuendo towards. For instance the "Big D" refers to Damn which used to be a much more serious curse word, but here it's very easy to see it as suggestion to how endowed the captain is.
The Captain has a fine voice, but there is no sparkle to it. Hear Alan Styler of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company sing this. This Captain sounds more like a funeral director . The the chorus of sailors, well, not to be unkind, but to quote from the G&S opera Iolanthe "When Britain Really Ruled The Waves", I do not think it was happening here.....
Amazed at the capacity some people have to take even something as simple and fun as a Gilbert and Sullivan musical and use it as an opportunity to bore youtube users with their childish inanities and tiresome prejudices ie the 'fags' comment by cannonregular.
While most videos from this showing are pretty good, I'm not fond of this Captain. He has good range, but poor strength; there's so little resonance or power to his voice, he's practically belching out his lines.
