| re: Gilbert & Sullivan |
| Posted by: DavidEsq 11:46 pm EDT 08/29/20 |
| In reply to: re: Gilbert & Sullivan - Chromolume 11:32 pm EDT 08/29/20 |
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| Agreed - I think you can easily find many other examples of things that were influenced by G&S (I always thought Merano from Chess - minus the Freddie section - had a G&S influence) and patter songs in general pop up all over the place. Sections of dialog such as Pooh-Bah recounting his many governmental roles or Paradox from Pirates can still work. But yes - entire shows are difficult. I actually did a production of a Star Trek themed Pinafore in NYC a while back which was a lot of fun. I'm not usually a huge fan of things like that as they always seem so forced but luckily the authors were huge G&S and Sci-Fi fans and the updated lyrics were hysterical if you knew the references. I frankly think it worked better than the original (and they even made the switched at birth plotline which is usually ridiculous because of the age gap make logical sense!) |
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