HMS Pinafore - Never Mind the Why or Wherefore

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2008
  • Essgee's production with Jon English Simon Gallaher Helen Donaldson Drew Forsythe David Gould.
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  • @timothypeterson4781
    @timothypeterson4781 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    I love how she makes her dress look like a bell. It's so small and simple but it makes me smile every time.

  • @SpenglerExtreme
    @SpenglerExtreme 3 ปีที่แล้ว +165

    I only just noticed that this is, what seems to be, her first time drinking alcohol. She sniffs her first champagne before drinking it. She runs off multiple times to sneak more champagne for herself. And of course “A tar who ploughs the daughter.”
    Just little bits of acting that go unnoticed. I love it

    • @ticklesyoumoistly
      @ticklesyoumoistly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oo nice observation

    • @darinchiasson
      @darinchiasson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      She sneaks glances askance before pouring herself a glass. She was an experienced drinker before champagne was called by the unfortunate eye of his lordship

    • @nedludd7622
      @nedludd7622 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It is typical to sniff wine and champagne before drinking.

  • @Three-Headed-Monkey
    @Three-Headed-Monkey 6 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Her "Ri-ing the merry bells on board ship" was great

    • @ebbelille
      @ebbelille 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Yeah, that was actually a bit of rock n' roll injected into this otherwise quite circus-y reimagining of the song.

    • @fastacker2
      @fastacker2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      The way she moves with that dress. she is the belle. gorgeous.

  • @thedoeguy
    @thedoeguy 14 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    There's a wonderful tradition, that originated in D'Oyly Carte, to "embellish" this trio with spoof verses. This version is totally true to that tradition.

  • @jimhogue5544
    @jimhogue5544 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    . . . and the tar who plows his daughter . . . Bold and hilarious additions throughout! Bravo.

  • @battlewrathgaming5047
    @battlewrathgaming5047 4 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    I find Helen's movement simply enchanting and spritely!

  • @tehblogger
    @tehblogger 13 ปีที่แล้ว +144

    ok, if you are going to update G&S, this is certainly the way to do it. "I'll out-fox your trot, Lord Porter" is very clever, "won't see this at D'Oyly Carte" is a nice touch, and I almost fell off my chair laughing at "the tar who plows the daughter"...

    • @thomasvanwely
      @thomasvanwely 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I wish I had seen this 9 years earlier so I could respond to this in time. But shit time flies and 9 years later I am feeling the exact same thing you did!

    • @steerpike1359
      @steerpike1359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      GILBERT AND SULLIVAN'S WORK DOES NOT NEED UPDATING, THEY SHOULD BE PERFORMED AS WRITTEN OR NOT AT ALL !

    • @Spikeelsucko
      @Spikeelsucko 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@steerpike1359 This is a bad take, G&S understood the value of not being stuffy and creating an entertaining play, and that ad-lib, improvisation and interpretation are the lifeblood of theater. They wouldn't want lines wasted on references lost of most of the audience, the play should be entertaining in and of itself and "updated" gags don't lower the play just because it's more accessible. If you want a completely accurate historical version of the play I'm sure they're around.

    • @karlandersson8652
      @karlandersson8652 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@steerpike1359 All I can say is that I would have never seen the entire play in "traditional" format, but I watched this whole version and enjoyed it when it was up on youtube. There's no reason to not have "as written" versions for purists and historical interest, and then updated "fun" versions for the rest of us that just want to be entertained on terms we can understand better

    • @ARCtheCartoonMaster
      @ARCtheCartoonMaster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@Spikeelsucko Excellent take, Spik. I am reminded of a certain quote from the late Freddie Mercury: “You can do what you want with my music, but don't make me boring.”

  • @letsxxtango
    @letsxxtango 14 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    "And a tar that plows the daughter!"
    Lol!

    • @Spydur0ne
      @Spydur0ne 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      WHAT?!?!

    • @NewMusicWeekly
      @NewMusicWeekly 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I'd love to see W. S. Gilbert's reaction to that line. And whether he could work out what it meant by himself, or needed a hint.

    • @peterfireflylund
      @peterfireflylund 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@NewMusicWeekly pretty sure he intentionally skated close to it in the official lyrics -- and intended people to discover it themselves.

    • @NewMusicWeekly
      @NewMusicWeekly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@peterfireflylund It's possible. I've read that "plow" may be the origin of the word "fuck", which I wouldn't be surprised Gilbert knew:
      From linguitleteis.tumblr.com/post/39141549801/origin-of-the-word-fuck#:~:text=plow :
      Yet another possible etymology [for fuck] is from the Old High German word pfluog, meaning “to plow, as in a field.”
      So the slang use of "plow" may be quite ancient.

    • @darcybrummett7004
      @darcybrummett7004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      She was getting tipsy!

  • @ajessm
    @ajessm 7 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    Interesting physique Sir Joseph has. He looks like a hunch-front

  • @ixarofthebargains493
    @ixarofthebargains493 4 ปีที่แล้ว +48

    "And the tar who ploughs the Daughter"
    classic

    • @tepesobrejac4360
      @tepesobrejac4360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'm not a native English speaker. Could you explain to me what it means. Google translate is just terrible.

    • @dorkmax7073
      @dorkmax7073 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@tepesobrejac4360 a "Tar" or a "Jacktar" was, in the 1890s when Gilbert and Sullivan wrote this opera, a common sailor. This comes from either the tarring of rope aboard a ship, or the tarring of work clothes.
      To "plow" a woman is a ribald euphemism for sex. Fornication.
      The song is about the Captain's daughter, and how her father wants her to marry his boss, the Lord of the Admiralty. But she is in love with a common Tar. The Lord of the Admiralty, being of the upper class, assumes her reluctance to marry him was because she was awed by his nobility, so he assures her that love shouldn't care about social class. This is why she jokes that he "makes his rival's case", because she can marry the common sailor with a clear conscience if rank does not matter.

    • @tepesobrejac4360
      @tepesobrejac4360 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@dorkmax7073
      Thank you

  • @lachlang683
    @lachlang683 8 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    John English! (26 March 1949 - 9 March 2016).
    Rest in peace. Thanks for sharing your love of performing, regardless of the genre.
    You have now truly achieved legend status!

  • @Jamie_Pritchard
    @Jamie_Pritchard 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I love how they've taken the traditional 'encore' and put their own spin on it. A fantastic company and always entertaining.

    • @Spydur0ne
      @Spydur0ne 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wait, that wasn't part of it?!

  • @songsmith31a
    @songsmith31a ปีที่แล้ว +4

    From the UK - the actor playing Sir Joseph brought to mind how Rowan (Mr Bean) Atkinson might have
    performed the role.

  • @TheKing-qz9wd
    @TheKing-qz9wd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Ploughs the water.
    Plows the water.
    Plows the daughter.
    (In sync with the guys on stage)
    *"WHAT?!?"*

  • @thepantweaver
    @thepantweaver 14 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    This is an amazing adaptation of the song and show. It is wonderful, and the fun they're having is perfectly in line Gilbert and Sullivan.

  • @wanderingkernel5002
    @wanderingkernel5002 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    "Now I've learnt the Hokey Pokey fever nights on Saturdays!"

  • @camarocico
    @camarocico 15 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oh, May all the Gods of Athens and Rome bless Gilbert and Sullivan! The muses have gifted these two gentlemen with such wit and rhythm that we poor ungifted mortals can only dream of...
    "Never Mind the Why and Wherefore!"

  • @brunomaples
    @brunomaples 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I love the addition of new verses. I think the traditional encores are a lot of fun, but this gives something new to people who have seen the usual oh so many times

  • @Ignauhak
    @Ignauhak 15 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    5:01, after all the funny antics Sir Joseph got up to before with his nervousness, I found it JUST TOO FUNNY!!! I swear I was just an INCH from death by laughter!

  • @starbug1409
    @starbug1409 8 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Sir Joseph: (tries to talk) (snorts)

    • @rachelsquire7246
      @rachelsquire7246 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      starbug1409 smooth move if I do say so myself

  • @deidreshand4641
    @deidreshand4641 9 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I love it when she said and the tar who plows the daughter when I first heard it I was only 12 or 13 so had no idea what was so funny about it until I was in my mid teens. From then on I don't think I'll ever forget it.

    • @2HB2HB
      @2HB2HB 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Deidre Shand I was in the cast in our school musical (an aunt) and I didn't get it at 17 (it was 1974) but it cracks me up now.

    • @2HB2HB
      @2HB2HB 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +2HB2HB I think our music teacher was ahead of his time.

    • @derricgreene
      @derricgreene 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I had to go back go make sure I heard right.

  • @jessicagray5658
    @jessicagray5658 7 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    If anyone put's this whole movie on youtube I'll love them forever. I only have the video version and no video player...

    • @lastbreathsigh
      @lastbreathsigh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      it is already on youtube, just look up essgee pinafore and it should pop up

    • @thomasvanwely
      @thomasvanwely 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lastbreathsigh It's now hidden but still on, I can give you the link if you won't tell ;)

    • @brennag7378
      @brennag7378 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thomasvanwely me too please!

    • @thomasvanwely
      @thomasvanwely 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@brennag7378 watch?v=_vDsRd-IkZY

    • @lordrettichvonwald3057
      @lordrettichvonwald3057 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@thomasvanwely it doesnt work for me. is it the right link

  • @brokenhallelujah87
    @brokenhallelujah87 10 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Wow, people get so worked up over this! Why do people care if someone updates a production that has been interpreted the same way for well over 100 years... different century, different humour, different demographic if you don't like Essgee there are a plethora of more traditional interpretations that you can watch... This comment may be irrelevant because most of the negative comments I read are from a couple of years ago but still! I am so so happy that this exists! I fall asleep watching any other version of G & S! "rumpy pumpy" hehe

    • @theskycavedin
      @theskycavedin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      brokenhallelujah87. Because it's not good. I don't want to see an "updated" anything where some unfunny modern hack shoves his own horseshit into a classic.

    • @RenaissanceEarCandy
      @RenaissanceEarCandy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Wow, you really HAVE got a bee in your bonnet about this, haven't you?

    • @YouaNumbahOneRacist
      @YouaNumbahOneRacist 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      God damn square. This was never _meant_ to be high class, it only became that way with time.

    • @Mousy677
      @Mousy677 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@YouaNumbahOneRacist Gilbert and Sullivan is basically a political comic where every concept is labelled with added dick jokes

    • @henrymarks2237
      @henrymarks2237 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ratboy genius my favorite type of comedy

  • @jonathantitterton9455
    @jonathantitterton9455 9 ปีที่แล้ว +161

    my favorite line in this is "And the Tar who plows the daughter WHAT?!"

    • @Sintar07
      @Sintar07 7 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Yeah, I was quite disappointed to find that that line seems to be unique to this version, or at least this is the only version I've seen on TH-cam that includes it.

    • @sciranger6703
      @sciranger6703 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      It's usaully "and a tar (low-class salior) you plows the water." But this is MUCH funnier.

    • @crazyman8472
      @crazyman8472 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Ring the merry bells! 😍

  • @Smokr
    @Smokr 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The Drew Forsythe Show! He freaking owned this production!

  • @spetsnatzlegion3366
    @spetsnatzlegion3366 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Somehow this guy has less game than me which I didn’t think was possible

  • @colinmccauley3301
    @colinmccauley3301 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    attended "Pirates of Penzance" many years ago by D'Oyly Carte in Boston. to see on video is one thing but in person, truly a once in a lifetime experience.

  • @silvercat18
    @silvercat18 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    His understanding of the female creature is legend.

  • @borzoix4
    @borzoix4 16 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was fantastic.. I want the dvd..

  • @paxxop
    @paxxop 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What a joy to find this! I loved watching the original essgee productions of G&S and seeing this reminds me why. Was unaware it had been released on DVD, now I have to go find it!

  • @vulpezerdavulcan9055
    @vulpezerdavulcan9055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how the music is almost carnival-esque

  • @TheMee4
    @TheMee4 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Gilbert and Sulllivan are timeless!

  • @tamlandipper29
    @tamlandipper29 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love this version of the Sea Lord.

  • @marilynscott-waters7786
    @marilynscott-waters7786 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved this song and personally want that magic Champagne bottle.

  • @kathywil1
    @kathywil1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    absolutely wonderful.i love it

  • @lordprimus2410
    @lordprimus2410 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    who knew that Palpatine had a good voice

    • @Intrepidice
      @Intrepidice 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ”I am the senate of the Sea/the ruler of the imperial navee,
      Whose praise great Coruscant loudly chant/and so does his apprentice, his cousin, and his aunt ”

  • @TobinFell
    @TobinFell 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    "Won't see this at D'Oyly Carte!"

  • @thepantweaver
    @thepantweaver 14 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Where do these alternate lyrics come from? I like the song so much better this way. And of course the performances are amazing.

  • @LoganHunter82
    @LoganHunter82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    That guy playing "Joseph Porter" looks like Harry Enfield

  • @alexwehl2731
    @alexwehl2731 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Stupendiferous!

  • @williamavalon4830
    @williamavalon4830 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Glorious ...!!!

  • @jocelynpink1120
    @jocelynpink1120 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Brilliant! I'm a great G&S fan!

  • @Bucksavard28
    @Bucksavard28 11 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Is there anywhere I can watch this full production of Pinafore? It has some of my favorite renditions.

  • @ignaciomoreno9655
    @ignaciomoreno9655 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    There is a lot of funny things in this song. But I think that the actress made one of the best performances of being tipsy: gestures, words...

  • @obiwanobiwan13
    @obiwanobiwan13 14 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    @Tillyvalle Sullivan yes... Gilbert would've enjoyed the snarkiness, though, I think he'd be "nudging" Sullivan up there and saying, "Oh, lighten up, Arthur!" ;)
    But both were great, geniuses... I think Gilbert as a storyteller is underrated, and sometimes thought just good with Sullivan- but the truthi is its Gilbert AND Sullivan... one alone is great, but BOTH TOGETHER...

  • @2HB2HB
    @2HB2HB 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this

  • @barbarbarbar2
    @barbarbarbar2 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love it love it very much

  • @kaydeepatterson8481
    @kaydeepatterson8481 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this musical :',D

  • @camarocico
    @camarocico 15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Some would say "The Pirates of Penzance" or "The Sorcerer" may be as famed as "HMS Pinafore" and "Mikado". But why would we argue, Gilbert and Sullivan could seem to do no wrong in my opinion! Exquisite!

  • @emmablank1990
    @emmablank1990 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love this vid !

  • @randybobos
    @randybobos 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    i like the stuff they added

  • @GregJamesMusic
    @GregJamesMusic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sir Joseph’s expression at 0:25 is priceless. Very Mr. Bean-esque.

  • @ajessm
    @ajessm 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What are they using instead of an orchestra? Sounds like a hurdy-gurdy and a xylophone with some clackers thrown in. Whatever it is, it works.

    • @thomashogan16
      @thomashogan16 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      So funny! And maybe a celeste.

  • @connorsullivan2745
    @connorsullivan2745 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    When did Mr Bean join the navy?

  • @harry3balls
    @harry3balls 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i wish i could see the entire performance somewhere :')

    • @me-dc8pj
      @me-dc8pj 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's on TH-cam somewhere!

    • @alexthaboss1356
      @alexthaboss1356 หลายเดือนก่อน

      th-cam.com/video/fDPj9yGMs1Q/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ij2-T67AWhZsJv_T

  • @PcCAvioN
    @PcCAvioN 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I can't tell if i love or hate the 80s synth orchestra

    • @BlankJohnA
      @BlankJohnA 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hate it

    • @Coldstreamer17
      @Coldstreamer17 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually this was recorded and performed in the late 90s XD

  • @rosskerr1439
    @rosskerr1439 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gosh, we're scared and gosh, we're frightened,
    'Cause our itty-bitty new friend
    Has his teeny-weeny brain all set
    On blowing us to bits.
    O, how horrible, deplorable,
    This really is the pits!

  • @helenbrookshaw7263
    @helenbrookshaw7263 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Won't see this at D'oyly Carte. Brilliant.

    • @henrymarks2237
      @henrymarks2237 ปีที่แล้ว

      I love how unabashedly silly this show is

  • @MateusVIII
    @MateusVIII 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anyone knows where i can get this version to watch all of it?

  • @lordrettichvonwald3057
    @lordrettichvonwald3057 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    i would love to see this particular performance is it aviable anywhere this seems to be best i found.

  • @kirstilundy69
    @kirstilundy69 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    where can i watch all of this

  • @Elanchana
    @Elanchana 12 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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

  • @YouaNumbahOneRacist
    @YouaNumbahOneRacist 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Bah. I should have been in theatre.

  • @darcybrummett7004
    @darcybrummett7004 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:19 “Whoops, I think my underwear tore.” LOL

    • @vking8084
      @vking8084 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ya hahaha

    • @vking8084
      @vking8084 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Rip john reed

  • @michaelexman5474
    @michaelexman5474 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    mr been goes to the opera

  • @daisybtoes
    @daisybtoes 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @Dayvd Allen Where DO you find these DVDs? I've been looking for them for ages. And do they play on American players?

  • @timthorman7029
    @timthorman7029 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The synthesizer is an interesting addition.

  • @thepantweaver
    @thepantweaver 13 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    @XlightassassenX I'll admit many of the new lyrics in this production are really just quite silly, but I really think "I'll out-fox your trot, Lord Porter" is awfully clever, and very fun.

  • @0800Author
    @0800Author 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I agree!!!!!

  • @DaMav
    @DaMav 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Hah hah hah Excellent!!

  • @GalazanCat
    @GalazanCat 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm interested too for a DVD

  • @Wraithriel
    @Wraithriel 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    @Johnmartine63 I have it on VHS... I would LOVE to watch it again, I'll try and see about getting it transferred.

  • @Stinson2196
    @Stinson2196 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    we did this at my school

  • @zelalife2559
    @zelalife2559 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can someone tell me what the new lyrics are after the 5:10 timeline

  • @sarahmay1205
    @sarahmay1205 9 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Hahaha! The original is best, but this is pretty funny. 'Won't see this at D'Oyly Carte!'

  • @stitchesandstaples
    @stitchesandstaples 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @Johnmartine63 Yes there is - I got mine from the ABC shop in Australia.

  • @Artenol68
    @Artenol68 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As a non-native English speaker, I have serious problems to understand changed text. Is there a way to read it somehwere?

    • @karinkorenkova2059
      @karinkorenkova2059 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You can give me the timestamps and I can help you

  • @alfredjonathankwak955
    @alfredjonathankwak955 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    This song was remade on the pdp-1x

  • @camarocico
    @camarocico 15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And furthermore, may the blessings of Olympus be upon them who have so bravely and fiercely butchered the verses that the muses hath enspired to the original authors!

  • @sallysmith9733
    @sallysmith9733 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Drainage, historical, is a work in General. Lets upgrade.

  • @PhoenixBorealis
    @PhoenixBorealis 12 ปีที่แล้ว

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

  • @jasonmatthews534
    @jasonmatthews534 ปีที่แล้ว

    Merry bells rhythm?

  • @superchick2connaught
    @superchick2connaught 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    it is originally "And a tar who plows the water."

  • @ulca01
    @ulca01 13 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    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"

  • @darcybrummett7004
    @darcybrummett7004 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4:33 Anyone notice what Sir Joseph was doing?

  • @Lightney
    @Lightney 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @thepantweaver Isn't it just :) Well played on their part.

  • @ticklesyoumoistly
    @ticklesyoumoistly 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Omg I love her voice

  • @masterofallthelakesintown2472
    @masterofallthelakesintown2472 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Average discord mod with his kitten.

  • @coolmamac
    @coolmamac 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tar that plows the water.

  • @zammer990
    @zammer990 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    5:26 anyone know what they say?

    • @adambrown7600
      @adambrown7600 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Naval gazing was amazing dancing hornbacks was the craze something like that anyway.

  • @GeorgetownDude
    @GeorgetownDude 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    LOL -- Your's is the funniest comment I have ever read on Tube. Good on you, mate.

  • @dildonius
    @dildonius 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nothing like a bit of naughty rumpy pumpy.

  • @DarExc
    @DarExc 14 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    lol, I have always slipt that line in myself, I sung along with "and a tar who plows his daughter" by mistake once and always sung that afterwards ;p Cultural Filth you may believe it to be but most stuck up prudes said the same thing to their original performances...no offense.

    • @dildonius
      @dildonius 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      People always forget that all this high-brow shit that stuff't shirt snobs think they're so much better than the commonfolk for liking and try to gatekeep - whether it's Gilbert & Sullivan or Billy Shakespeare - was considered low-brow shit for the common folk. The main section of Shakespeare's Globe Theater was one big, seatless moshpit-type area that was very VERY cheap to get into if not outright free, so that the average peasant could enjoy the show, while the upper classes paid to sit way up above them in the balconies. And the performances could get damn rowdy as the commoners would harass and heckle the actors, even throw shit at them if the play was a bomb or the actors were botching their performance. It was far from the stuffed-shirt, champagne & monocles, high-society, "Well I SAY, old sport!" type of affair that performances of Shakespeare's plays are thought of today.
      And Gilbert & Sullivan's whole entire thing is relentless mocking of the ridiculous, self-serious, stuffy, humorless, uptight dipshits who comprised the upper class in their day and HATED their plays ("...and whistle all the airs from that INFERNAL NONSENSE _Pinafore!_ -The Major General, _The Pirates of Penzance_ by G&S). But of course now that same class of self-serious, stuffy assholes have appropriate their works.

    • @FOLIPE
      @FOLIPE 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@dildonius It's not true that the upper classes hated G&S they were both wildly acclaimed in their time. Gilbert was even knighted.

  • @msfyn
    @msfyn 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @Johnmartine63 yes there is. ABC shops have it - if a problem -yell

  • @craigabaybii07
    @craigabaybii07 16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    hahahaha this is brilliant can someone gt me the dvd???/

  • @eclecticdufus
    @eclecticdufus 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @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.

  • @zetabyte99
    @zetabyte99 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @EternallyGodBless i don't think so, they added words! and changed them around

  • @dorkmax7073
    @dorkmax7073 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So what is a Tar and how does one become such a thing

    • @pinkroseperson256
      @pinkroseperson256 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      A lower-class sailor, like the guy that Josephine actually wants to marry.

    • @speedweed6747
      @speedweed6747 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You gotta plow the water, man! I get what you’re saying though👊

  • @zetabyte99
    @zetabyte99 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    @letsxxtango and a tar who plows the water!

  • @Steampunksaly
    @Steampunksaly 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Magnificent casting, beautiful costumes, backdrop and staging and choreography- it’s of the highest I have ever seen in this production - but sadly the organ accompaniment ( as skilled as it is) spoils this production for me - these talented singers and actors are undermined by the musical accompaniment, a great shame in my opinion