A song to sing, oh!
2005-01-23 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mdlbearTook the family (minus the Younger Daughter and plus ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chaoswolf's GF) to San Francisco to see the Lamplighters' production of The Yeomen of the Guard, Gillbert and Sullivan's most serious, and arguably best operetta. In any case it's my favorite, and this was quite possibly the Lamplighters' best production of it (and since we've had season tickets for nearly 30 years and have yet to see a dud, that's saying a lot).
They had copies of this season's flier in the lobby that describe their two G&S shows thus:
Speaking as a baritone (happily married to an alto, thank you very much), I found it both amusingly accurate and vaguely disturbing. But then, what did you expect in an operetta? A happy ending for the baritone?
chaoswolf's GF) to San Francisco to see the Lamplighters' production of The Yeomen of the Guard, Gillbert and Sullivan's most serious, and arguably best operetta. In any case it's my favorite, and this was quite possibly the Lamplighters' best production of it (and since we've had season tickets for nearly 30 years and have yet to see a dud, that's saying a lot).They had copies of this season's flier in the lobby that describe their two G&S shows thus:
The plots of both The Mikado and The Yeomen of the Guard focus on a comic baritone who expects a tenor to be imminently beheaded so that he himself can marry the soprano... the tenor is in disguise... the execution doesn't happen... conspiracy and coverup abound... in some ways, it's the same story, treated farcically in The Mikado and more seriously in Yeomen.
Speaking as a baritone (happily married to an alto, thank you very much), I found it both amusingly accurate and vaguely disturbing. But then, what did you expect in an operetta? A happy ending for the baritone?
