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tilly_stratfordWatched that 1983 Pirates of Penzance studio movie. As much as I love Gilbert and Sullivan I've somehow never seen Pirates before. ...You know, I think Gilbert and Sullivan is pretty unknown in Norway? I've never ever heard of a Norwegian production of a G&S opera. Then again a lot of it is pretty untranslatable - in the case of Pirates I was having a lot of fun watching the subtitler nearly having a fit trying to make the orphan/often joke work.
Well the movie felt pretty tainted by its eighty-ness (get that synth out of my comedic opera!) but... you remember last year when I admitted that in my childhood I totally had a thing for Jeff Goldblum? As a follow-up I can now tell you that about the age of ten or so I had the most passionate infatuation with Kevin Kline... for about two weeks. A secret that I'd pretty much forgotten about until today when I saw him in the role of the Pirate King.
I really am all too predictable.
The movie did an odd bit of cut-and-pasting by including the song 'My eyes are fully open' (popularly known as 'It really doesn't matter') from the opera Ruddigore, but adding more of both tongue-twisters and Angela Lansbury - it's all forgiven.
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Speaking of tongue-twisters, I've made the greatest discovery ever: An album simply titled Gilbert and Sullivan and Danny Kaye! The undisputed king of tongue-twisters doing G&S, I'm astonished I hadn't heard of it. He even sings my favourite G&S song of all time, 'When first my old old love I knew' from Trial by Jury (it is, sad to say, not a great rendition of it, but the point still stands!). Ah, joy. His 'If you're anxious for to shine' is a beauty.
Okay, there. I think I have no more to say about Gilbert and Sullivan for today. God this fever does weird things to my brain.
Well the movie felt pretty tainted by its eighty-ness (get that synth out of my comedic opera!) but... you remember last year when I admitted that in my childhood I totally had a thing for Jeff Goldblum? As a follow-up I can now tell you that about the age of ten or so I had the most passionate infatuation with Kevin Kline... for about two weeks. A secret that I'd pretty much forgotten about until today when I saw him in the role of the Pirate King.
I really am all too predictable.
The movie did an odd bit of cut-and-pasting by including the song 'My eyes are fully open' (popularly known as 'It really doesn't matter') from the opera Ruddigore, but adding more of both tongue-twisters and Angela Lansbury - it's all forgiven.
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Speaking of tongue-twisters, I've made the greatest discovery ever: An album simply titled Gilbert and Sullivan and Danny Kaye! The undisputed king of tongue-twisters doing G&S, I'm astonished I hadn't heard of it. He even sings my favourite G&S song of all time, 'When first my old old love I knew' from Trial by Jury (it is, sad to say, not a great rendition of it, but the point still stands!). Ah, joy. His 'If you're anxious for to shine' is a beauty.
Okay, there. I think I have no more to say about Gilbert and Sullivan for today. God this fever does weird things to my brain.
