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[trinityvixen]

Before I forget: Happy Birthday to newly published author jethrien! Congrats and all the best to you on your natal day!


(But reckoning by my natal day, yes reckoning by my natal day...I am a little lad of five! Sorry, saw Pirates of Penzance again recently, so it's still in my head.)

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[linaerys.livejournal.com]

I now have "A Pirate King" going through my head and will for THE REST OF TIME.

WOE.

*g*

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Oops! Sorry! Except, how mad can you really be? It's Gilbert and Sullivan! My mom came out of the musical going, "How can you not come out of a G&S musical without smiling?" I dunno the answer because we all were.

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

It's true, there is no way to leave a G&S musical any other way than smiling. I haven't seen one in so long.

I am now listening to all of THe Pirates of Penzance on Rhapsody. And it is wonderful, as always.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

NYGASP is having a whole set of shows, with many tickets both reasonable and with discounts. They did a fun job with it, though of course the Lincoln Center version last year was hard to top. Still, I love Pirates, always will. It has the most infectious music.

Check 'em out, get some tickets, why not? (http://nygasp.org/home) I'll be back for Pinafore and Mikado, neither of which I've ever seen (unless you count "Cape Fear," that episode of The Simpsons where Side Show Bob performs the entire repertoire).

[linaerys.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, thank you! I saw Pinafore and Mikado when Cornell put them on and I was still in elementary school, and the movies of Princess Ida and the Pirates of Penzance. I'd see any of them.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The one I'm saddest about missing is Trial By Jury, just because the plot synopsis in the PlayBill was hi-larious. It was only on the one night, alas, but all the others except Princess Ida will be on in June.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

I vaguely remember Trial by Jury being surprisingly short.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they'd only had it for one night and it was already coupled with a sort-of greatest hits of G&S for the second act.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

It was actually the first G&S show I saw.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of it, but I read the synopsis and I was sorry we'd missed it. It sounded like a sitcom before there WERE sitcoms.

And I realized that that is why G&S are still relevant. Their humor isn't dated, it's timeless. Oh, the music helps, too, but the humor is totally there for anyone.

[earthrise.livejournal.com]

Now what is this and what is that and why does father leave his rest at such a time of night as this so very incompletely dressed? Dear father is and always was the most methodical of men it's his invariable rule to go to bed at half past ten. What strange occurrence can it be that calls dear father from his rest at such a time of night as this so very incompletely dressed?

Sigh.
They don't write 'em like they used to.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Mostly because people can't enunciate like they used to. My sister had trouble following because the words got swallowed by a few characters. Which is a damned shame, because them's some fun lyrics.