HMS Pinafore - Never Mind the Why or Wherefore

Essgee's production with Jon English Simon Gallaher Helen Donaldson Drew Forsythe David Gould.

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• performing
• arts
• musicals
• music
• theater
• gilbert
• and
• sullivan

[letsxxtango]

"And a tar that plows the daughter!"

Lol!

[Johnmartine63]

This is so funny! I love the old Sir Joseph. The lyrics are just so funny. Gosh, I wish I could have sen this. Is there a DVD???

[mensamoo]

don't the music is plastic? needs an orchestra

[Randomguynames]

@normancanter1 I would love to see an amv or animash to this version.

[normancanter1]

Progressive abandon with more champagne.

[Elanchana]

Nevermind the why or wherefore, whoops, I think my underwear tore! XDD

[PhoenixBorealis]

We just studied Gilbert and Sullivan in Music Theater Appreciation. lol Comic Geniuses. :D

[Daveh01]

Fever Nights on Saturdays! - Laughed very much at that part, and the increasing way Josephine gets drunk.

[strauss12345]

"For the union with his lordship"

*humps the air*

4:32

[ulca01]

I couldn't help laughing when I saw Sir Joseph's facial expressions (especially in the few minutes of this clip) and the way he talks; very funny.

The play seems to have been updated a little bit, according to my research the line "and a tar who plows the daughter", wasn't in the original; instead that particular line was "and a tar who plows the water"

[eclecticdufus]

I saw D'Oyly Carte do this on tour in Seattle in the late 60s. The Bell encores with John Reed were far funnier than this. And a tad more faithful.

[eclecticdufus]

@MrSwifts31 That must have been a wonderful (if often grueling) experience. Of course, performers have been trying to add stage business ever since Barrington on the grounds that it gets a laugh. And Gilbert's unaswerable riposte was so would it if you sat down on a pork pie. OK, "tar that plows the daughter" is pretty funny. The real crime here is as you say--replacing Sullivan's great orchestration with cheap synthesized crap.