#gilbert and sullivan
Tim Curry as The Pirate King - ‘The Pirates of Penzance -1982 - Royal Va…
I’ve watched “Star Trek: Insurrection” and liked it. Data singing or “playing” in a rick of hay was vety cute.
Katisha’s father trained as an attorney in England, but she moved back home after a judge trifled with her affections to get ahead in his career.
OH MY GOD
Something new: a comic adaptation of some cut dialogue from the Gilbert & Sullivan opera Ruddigore! I’ve been fascinated with this “lost” material for a while. No recordings or sheet music (that I can find) seem to exist on the internet, so I had to take matters into my own hands. The characters are Sir Despard Murgatroyd (a bad baronet of Ruddigore) and Mad Margaret (his feral once-gf/later-wife). Even if you’re not a G&S fan, I hope you find it enjoyable!
(P.S. Another piece will be coming soon. It’ll adapt the duet that was meant to come right after this part!)
I have never seen this version of the scene, with Margaret interrupting Despard’s monologue- but this is really cool! (Also— Margaret Mackintosh? This is the first I’ve heard of her canonical surname).
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How many of you remember these two American Girl books?
The first of these, Oops!: The Manners Guide for Girls, was one of my favorites as a kid. This was the page about introductions.
Notice the whimsical names. Squidge Mealy. Daisy Dogdish. Mr. Butterball.
But that’s not why I’ve gathered you all here today.
The book was reprinted several years later under the title A Smart Girl’s Guide to Manners.
This was the introductions page. It might look benign. But take a closer look.
Kander? Fred(dy) Ebb?
Lynn Fontanne? Al Lunt?
Sarah Vaugh(a)n? Ro(d)gers? Hart?
Gilbert? Art Sullivan?
Okay…WHO LET THE THEATER NERDS OUT?!
(Oh, yes, and there’s Roy Rogers, a Ms. Evans, Loretta, and Lynn too.)
…the heck did I just read?
Here’s a 19th-century fanfic that’s basically an abridged version of Iolanthe set in an AU where everyone is obsessed with the Chicago & Alton railway line. If it’s an ad, it’s an impressively elaborate one. The illustrations are very nice.
CELIA
But Iolanthe is not dead.FAIRY QUEEN
No, because your queen, who loved her as much as a member of the State legislature loves a railway pass, commuted her sentence to travel for life on other lines, and sooner than do it she confined herself in a pond.LEILA
And she is now working out her sentence in Iowa.OMG if you scroll to the bottom there are Princess Ida and Patience ones too.
I will have to actually read it later, as I am on an actual train arm and Internet on the train is Not The Best.
And they’re all beautifully illustrated, and all full of G&S characters being obsessed with the railroad. These people created a whole series of Chicago & Alton railway AU G&S fanfics.
Strephon: of evidence I have no dearth
Strephon’s evidence: I am telling you that this lady fed me when I was a baby
