I’m a huge G&S fan and I have heard most of the historical Doyly Carte Productions of Patience back to the Sir Henry Lytton era and I don’t believe that any of the Doyly Carte legends do this any better than Anthony Warlow and Dennis Olsen. Absolutely the best in my opinion and we are very lucky that we have a video of it to store for posterity.
Have you ever seen Doyly Carte perform?😅In addition, Dennis Olsen is also a former Doyly Carte member，As far as the Patience video currently exists, 1982 Brent Walker is better.
I am 73 years old and have been a G&S fan and amateur performer since I was 18. I saw all of the D’Oyly Carte productions most more than once in the 1960’s through early 1980’s. I recall John Reed as Bunthorne and Kenneth Sandford as Grosvenor and I stand by my conviction that this is the best version of this particular song that I have ever seen. By Brent Walker you mean the producer of the 1982 tv version? I don’t think I have seen it but until I do this is mt favourite.
Denis Olsen was John Reeds understudy at Doyly Carte for several years but returned to Australia when he realised that Reed wasn’t likely to retire soon.
I love this and heartily recommend the DVD (which I found at my local library). They're both absolutely terrific obviously. Also, consider that Dennis Olsen (mid-50s here) immediately had to resume speaking, singing and dancing in the next scene. I continue to be impressed by the physicality of G&S comedians. (Anthony Warlow had a complete change of costume in about 3 minutes and re-entered dancing and singing so he's no small shakes either.)
Here's the next scene where he's speaking, singing and dancing. He does pause for rest and refreshment at one point. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZXY5GspxBAg.html
@@shakespearegames5378 All through this part all I can think of is poor Grosvernor in the wings being stripped down and re-dressed by the ASMs for his next entrance. Thanks for this!
Saw Dennis Olsen in 1991 - a Sunday matinee of the one-man show "A Song to Sing-o ", about George Grossmith, at Sydney Opera House (one of the smaller venues in the complex). Brilliant. Plus, during the interval, you could wander out and eat your ice-cream with a view of Sydney Harbour. A memorable afternoon.
The Australian Broadcasting Company's production from 1995. Heather Begg was Lady Jane and Christine Douglas was Patience. And every part was done excellently.
This is wonderful! Anthony is AMAZING!! Dennis seems like a treasure too.. I hope I can see the whole of this particular production one day.. Thank you for posting this clip! :)
Anthony Warlow Never played Jack Sparrow! You must mean the Pirate King. Jack Sparrow was from Pirates of the Caribbean, when the captain from Pirates of penzance was called the Pirate King.
@@lexx2645 I think Marion was joking. I saw a production of Pirates of Penzance where the Pirate King's costume was definitely modelled on Captain Jack.
It's basically - costumes, set units, moves etc -- John Cox's famous English National Opera staging, which originally starred Derek Hammond-Stroud, and was recorded, in a messed-about form , for the Walker Video series.
Fantastic! Here we have perfection in singing, acting, and dancing, all three of which are necessary to do G&S as it deserves to be done. And even great covering up, when Warlow forgets his cross down left. :-) Bravi! What production is this, btw?
Australia Broadcast Company 1995 performance. Absolutely brilliant, sparkling, like catching lightning in a bottle. Loved my Facebook friend Toni Powell with the cymbals and can watch this over and over.
@@jackpoint188 ABC broadcast of Opera Australia's Patience from the Sydney Opera House., here showing Anthony Warlow (Australia's first Phantom) and Dennis Olsen (G&S comic roles)
I was there haahahaha the difference in the two reditions was the bell ringer in the orchestra woke up and rang the little bells on the words a threepenny bus young man in the second go
Possibly -- when did he give the collection to Oxford? 1881 or before? Seems more likely that it's just a reference to certain types of porcelain & porcelain design that (I believe) the Aesthetic movement favored.
Check out the final scene of Patience where Heather Begg (Lady Jane) accidentally knocks Dennis Olsen (Bunthorne) to the stage. She can't carry on for several seconds! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VwKts-GM_Cs.html
I did a documentary after college with another member of sweet charity for PBS on government women who were Jewish and coding in DC in world war 2 for the government. I grew up in the met opera but wasn't in Ai da
An x worked for the American gov and found the wallet of another producer for PBS on the street once and I returned it. His last name sounded like devil liar and he did Monty python.
Really good, except the man in the green shirt kept screwing up the parts of the song when they're skipping! He keeps muddling up "ultra-poetical super aesthetical" with "alphabetical arithmetical" and it throws the other guy off. God damn.
