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I've been listening to some 1920s-1950s D'Oyly Carte recordings I downloaded online (I've got nine including three of Princess Ida) for a while. My favourite shows are The Mikado and The Sorcerer ---- Mikado for the hilarious dialogue, wacky-but-logical storyline* and catchy music, and Sorcerer pretty much just for the slow, dark creepiness of the incantation scene. I like Elsie Griffin's voice as Josephine on the 1930 HMS Pinafore recording I've got with Charles Goulding as Ralph and Henry Lytton as Sir Joseph Porter.
Speaking of creepiness and Gilbert and Sullivan, in her memoirs Jessie Bond wrote about a weird experience she had when she was playing Mad Margaret in Ruddigore. She thought that instead of Rutland Barrington, the actor playing Sir Despard Murgatroyd was a member of a touring company playing that part on the same night. He also apparently felt that she was acting with him in his production.
Does anyone else like/love G&S?
*best thing about the operas IMO*
Speaking of creepiness and Gilbert and Sullivan, in her memoirs Jessie Bond wrote about a weird experience she had when she was playing Mad Margaret in Ruddigore. She thought that instead of Rutland Barrington, the actor playing Sir Despard Murgatroyd was a member of a touring company playing that part on the same night. He also apparently felt that she was acting with him in his production.
Does anyone else like/love G&S?
*best thing about the operas IMO*
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