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Mark Gritter<p>Marissa and my MiL and I went to "Patience" today at the Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company. I had forgotten how very pointy this one is; among the targets are:</p><p>* dukes<br>* poets<br>* the aesthetic movement<br>* moralizing poetry<br>* weird poetic pronunciations<br>* true love<br>* the British army's self-image<br>* men dressing in ways that impress other men, and assuming it's attractive to women !! (this might be a modern gloss but it's kind of explicitly there in the plot too)<br>* women getting old (I think I side with Sullivan on this, what the hell was Gilbert's hang-up)</p><p>It gives me great joy to imagine W.S. sitting down and saying "today I have to write some bad poetry" and probably having to throw out the first couple versions as not bad enough.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/GilbertAndSullivan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GilbertAndSullivan</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/Patience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Patience</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/ComicOpera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComicOpera</span></a></p>
Graham Ward<p>The Pirates of Penzance are back at the <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ENO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ENO</span></a> at the London Coliseum! <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/LondonColiseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LondonColiseum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/GilbertAndSullivan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GilbertAndSullivan</span></a></p>
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺<p>Ninety years before people first walked on the moon, in 1879 Gilbert and Sullivan gave us their comic opera The Pirates of Penzance and--in it--this funny little song "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General".</p><p>Today I listened to a 96-year-old recording via the Wikipedia page.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major-General%27s_Song" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major-Ge</span><span class="invisible">neral%27s_Song</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>music</span></a> <br><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/GilbertAndSullivan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GilbertAndSullivan</span></a> <br><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/IAmTheVeryModelOfAModernMajorGeneral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAmTheVeryModelOfAModernMajorGeneral</span></a></p>
MetaFilter<p>Come bite into this mashup of Gilbert &amp; Sullivan and Dracula!</p><p><a href="https://www.metafilter.com/202590/I-am-Doctor-Van-Helsing-I-never-let-anyone-else-sing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">metafilter.com/202590/I-am-Doc</span><span class="invisible">tor-Van-Helsing-I-never-let-anyone-else-sing</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mefi.social/tags/dracula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dracula</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/opera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opera</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>comedy</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/gilbertandsullivan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gilbertandsullivan</span></a> <a href="https://mefi.social/tags/bestofmetafilter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bestofmetafilter</span></a></p>
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