Pirate King: "That wasn't me, it was one of the musicians." Conductor: "Which musician?" Pirate King: "Sorry, it wasn't a musician it was a drummer." :-) Love it!
In the production of this that I'm in every policeman is a female except the Sergeant! hahaha. I play a daughter, a pirate, and a policeman. Great roles for someone with alot of dance and singing expirience. (:
Pirate King: *whistles* Fredrick:*not realizing whistle* Pirate King: Fredrick! *whistles* Fredrick: *attempts to whistle* I can't whistle! XD I Love how Simon says that!!!
fair point and as a former chorus performer myself I played in my last performance 2 characters including a character which we re-wrote to be a split-personality and a caricature of Fmr. PM John Howard.
I hope they paid the actors extra for this because if you look closely you'd notice that the coppers are also the pirates and come Act 2 you'll also notice that the Pirate Band and the Coppers are only half the size of what they were in the first act.
How spooky is this... I wrote that comment 6 mths ago and tonight I got your reply. Why spooky? I have just arrived home from seeing "The Rock Show" starring a host of young and very talented people headed by ... Jon English. If you get the chance to see it do so. There is so much talent out there, including Jon.
AHAHA! The cops are the best! Best EVER! Remember that! And Pirates of Penzance is the best play ever! I know these things. I was a cop. Aha! That dance is damn hard!
What makes you think they are lip-synching? The entire video is out of synch, but I'm sure they are really performing. It wouldn't be possible to do a live performance of Gilbert and Sullivan and lip-synch the whole thing.
I was in the audience for one of the performances of this, It was incredible. So were the other shows this company has preformed. But I've never seen the movie. Was something wrong with someones voice?
Why would they pay them extra? They're the chorus, thats their job. They don't get paid by per how many characters they do. They get paid on what their job title is.
Well, in the movie, they cast Tony Azito. He was a dancer, and they cast him in it so they could go more into choreography. He wasn't really much of a singer, and his voice certainly wasn't the deep bass voice you'd want for the Sergeant. They didn't even go down to the F in this song. Still a good performance, just not what Sullivan had written for it.
Dreadful! they are lip sinking (poorly sung at that) and Gilbert & Sullivan are rolling over in their graves at abuse their great work has suffered at the hands of these clowns. Shameful.
@Plawranc really? I was disappointed with her. She made this production hard for me to watch... she isn't a character actress, and pales in comparison to the other leads... and her voice is pretty weak... then again, I'm very picky and I'm glad other people enjoyed her.
