#G&S

[oldshrewsburyian]

This was, somehow, even better than I expected.

[Apropos, where is the G&S fandom on here? Surely theirs is Tumblr's sense of humor.]

#g&s #christopher lee #...and make each prisoner pent unwillingly represent a source of innocent merriment! of innocent merriment! #queue #Youtube

[unaeternidadyunpocomas]

Te amo demasiado 💜

Yo solo quiero ser feliz contigo ¿entiendes? No quiero a nadie más, no necesito a otra persona parecida o superior a ti. Porque nadie podrá igualar lo que tú haces en mi, nadie me hará feliz tan solo con sonreír, nadie me escuchará y sabrá guardar mis secretos como tú, nadie me besará con tanta dulzura, nadie me dará abrazos muy fuertes capaces de calmar el dolor que a veces llevo, nadie estará para mi no sólo en los buenos días sino también en los malos, nadie tendrá tu lado tierno, nadie entenderá mis sueños, nadie comprenderá la dura vida que tuve, nadie aceptará los errores que cometí y me escuchará cuando le explique que jamás quise eso, nadie será como tú, nadie me tratará como tú, nadie en este mundo podrá ser mi otra mitad, nadie. Es por eso que no quiero compartir mi vida con alguien que finja aceptarme, quiero compartirla con alguien que me acepte, que no me quiera por mi físico sino porque tenemos un buen futuro, quiero compartirla contigo, porque sobre todas las cosas te amo demasiado, tanto que no puedo estar sin ti. 💜

#g&s #goals #relationship goals #amor #frases de amor #i love u #poemas de amor #te amo por siempre #te amo #true love #una eternidad y un poco más #te amo mi amor #te amo mucho #te amo muchísimo #te amoo ❤️❤️👌 #te amo 3 millones #te amo bebé #te amor #texto de amor #te quiero #i love you #in love #love #love poem #cariño

[awesomesaurous]

Thank you for making Gilbert and Sullivan art! It's nice seeing other fans here!

one day I'll do more iolanthe stuff, god willing

#ask #hlootoo #inbox backlog #iolanthe #g&s #gilbert and sullivan

[bfuhrnerd]

#G&s #Gilbert and sullivan #savoy operas #Polls by Bryan #I fully expect yeomen to win #but I'll be pleasantly surprised if it doesn't!

[carpe-mamilia]

You know what show I really hope the ghosts put on while they were all together? HMS Pinafore. Everyone from Fanny onwards most likely knew it reasonably well already, either by cultural osmosis or from being a theatre gay, and for the rest it's probably the easiest operetta to pick up that's ever existed.

I imagine it would have gone down something like this:

Josephine Corcoran- Kitty

Ralph Rackstraw - Thomas

Absolute no-brainers for the lead soprano and tenor. Ralph scores extra points for being one of the most dramatic and flouncy tenors Gilbert ever wrote. At one point he has a speech that's so flowery it's genuinely incomprehensible. Unfortunately his big aria is terribly dull (still in-character tbh) but both of Josephine's are brilliant. Especially "The hours creep on apace", where, having secretly accepted Ralph's proposal, she does waver a bit since, after all, he is a bit of a pleb.

Captain Corcoran - The Captain

Keeps the Pinafore ship-shape and Bristol-fashion. Would have a lovely father-daughter relationship with Josephine. Gets to be in lots of bangin' numbers, especially "I am the Captain of the Pinafore".

Captain: I do my best to satisfy you all -

Crew: And with you we're quite content!

Captain: You're exceedingly polite and I think it's only right to return the compliment.

Sir Joseph Porter - Julian

Marvellously smug and superior patter baritone who got to his lofty position via flattery and luck rather than merit. No direction needed.

Little Buttercup - Fanny

I think she would struggle playing someone who's meant to be lowly, but on the other hand she'd probably really get into every other aspect of the character, especially when she gets to drop mysterious hints all the way through, and dramatically reveal the twist at the end. (She also really reminds me of the mature student who played Little Buttercup for my university's Light Opera Society once, who was very definitely another repressed middle-aged horndog. Get it, girl.)

Cousin Hebe - Mary

Not much of a part, but I suspect getting Mary to concentrate on something like this for any length of time without going off on a tangent would be... tricky. Would be enthusiastic about helping Josephine and might have to be held back from headbutting Captain Corcoran when he tries to stop the elopement.

Dick Deadeye - Robin

Hunched, triangular bass Dick Deadeye growls his way through the opera causing chaos just... 'cos. Is far more perceptive than the Captain and has to really spell out that Josephine and Ralph are planning on running away together.

Bosun's Mate - Humphrey's head

Carpenter's mate and director - Pat

This probably required slightly delicate handling, since Pat is the better singer (and He is an Englishman is harder than it looks), but a) keeping rehearsals from descending into anarchy probably took all his energy and b) Humphrey might have been slightly grumpy being relegated to a really tiny role again. At least they both get to be in A British Tar is a Soaring Soul.

Chorus of sisters, cousins, and aunts - Humphrey's body

Carries the whole show on his back.

#bbc ghosts #gilbert and sullivan #G&S #posts I made instead of doing actual work #and which will be of interest to absolutely no-one but me lol #I bet Cap played Cousin Hebe at school and got a huge thrill from it #sometimes to make the role bigger they'll put in When Maiden Loves from The Yeomen of the Guard for her #and that is a very lovely yearning song that probably really appealed to him for no reason in particular; definitely not #I imagine Lady B suddenly getting into it would be quite alarming for the Captain but that sounds hilarious so #also I imagine that everyone does all the chorus numbers #trying hard not to imagine what Julian does during We Sail the Ocean Blue on the line 'as the balls whistle free o'er the bright blue sea'

[soaringsoulsandsisters]

Sasha Regan's All-Male H.M.S. Pinafore

A year ago, I went to Wilton's Music Hall in London to watch what would turn out to be my favorite Gilbert & Sullivan production ever, and in fact, my favorite show out of every production I attended during my semester abroad. I want to share my thoughts about this production with the rest of G&S Tumblr (however many of us there are!)

Gaily tripping, lightly skipping....

This production is a revival; Sasha Regan’s all-male company has done Pinafore several times before. (They’ve also done The Pirates of Penzance, The Mikado, and Iolanthe.) Not knowing anything going in, I was worried that the men playing female roles would end up being presented as the butt of the joke, as is often the case with “man in a dress” humor. But it was earnestly and lovingly directed. It was certainly campy sometimes but it felt less like a parody and more like an honest celebration of homosexual joy, humor, and love.

When I was a lad...

I had also assumed that the music for the female roles would be transposed down, but I was wrong again: the men playing women actually sang up in their high ranges. Not a single note of the score or line of dialogue was altered. In fact, the men in the company who played the “sisters, cousins, and aunts” also played the sailors in some numbers. They even switched back and forth in one scene: they began “Over the bright blue sea…” singing sweetly in their high ranges, and then suddenly leapt down some octaves for “Sir Joseph’s barge is seen…” Gender fluidity was easily achieved through changes in costume elements, body language, and mannerisms. One got the impression of a company of sailors with time to spare using what they had on board to entertain themselves.

Sorry her lot, who loves too well...

Sam Kipling, the actor playing Josephine, had an amazingly stable high range, hitting the B at the end of Nevermind the why and wherefore with no problem. He carried himself gracefully and demurely, but his powerful voice and commanding presence were more than a match for his Ralph (played by Danny Becker).

And excellent peppermint drops...

Another standout cast member was Scotty Armstrong, who played Little Buttercup. He was the first “reveal” of the show — the first transformation from masculine to feminine; when he jumped up to his falsetto, he welcomed the audience into this play AND let them know what they were in for. Out of all of the cast members, at all three of the show dates I attended, it was Scotty who earned the most laughs. And he sold Buttercup’s eleventh-hour plot twist that ushers in the happy ending.

Seeing this genderfluidity and homosexuality in an operatic setting — especially one as hetero/cisnormative as that of the works of Gilbert and Sullivan — meant the world to me. The joy and playfulness of this production lasted long after the final note sounded, and the songs played over and over again in my heart for weeks to follow. What a welcome departure from tradition!

#gilbert and sullivan #hms pinafore #g&s #h.m.s. pinafore #sasha regan

[vulnerasti-cor-meum]

gilbert and sullivan would’ve loved jennifer coolidge

#gilbert and sullivan #gilbert & sullivan #g&s

[page-28]

Those Vans!

#Pam judge #vans #rector pads #g&s #yo-yo wheels

[godsnsnakes]

The beans

Find them here

#g&s #gns #gods & snakes #oc stuff #my ocs #original characters #oc art #webcomic #webcomix #webtoon #comics #original comic #comic #web comic #tumblr fyp #fyp #fypツ

[claviculaycalavera]

#g&s #gordon & smith #skateboard #tabla #patín #design

[sunnynoki]

How is Noki from sunshine?? I’ve never played who are they ??

the noki are a race of snail people!

they live primarily in noki bay, here!

theres a level where you go underwater and theyre all just chillin, scattered around the stage on jellyfish. i would spend a lot of time there just exploring and finding and talking to all of them :3

dunno why i thought of them when i was making my dA account all those years ago, but eventually the username turned into my chosen name! so uh. yeah lol

#ive seen a few people also have it as a name #but i can never find anything about it on name sites or w/e #soooooo im just sitting here #:3 #friend tag #asks #noki's life story #g&s

[bouquinteim]

Thomas Round and Donald Adams read a short bio of G&S. date: 1972 (?)

#gilbert and sullivan #G&S #thomas round #donald adams #arthur sullivan #w. s. gilbert #my 7 yr old self's favourite tenor playing the composer i favoured most at 7 = all the nostalgia

[unaeternidadyunpocomas]

Mírame 💜

Mírame, de verdad me gustas, no sabes la sensación que siento al verte, no sabes cuánto tiempo estas en mi cabeza, realmente no sabes nada. Mírame, por favor, mira mis ojos, no hace falta decir una palabra si mis ojos dicen todo, te miro diferente, porque me gusta verte, disfruto ver tu rostro independientemente de que expresiones tengas, me gusta estar contigo sin importar el tema de conversación, me basta estar contigo unos momentos para sentirme feliz. 💜

#g&s #goals #relationship goals #amor #frases de amor #i love u #poemas de amor #te amo #te amo por siempre #true love #una eternidad y un poco más #te amo muchísimo #te amo mi amor #te amo mucho #te amo tanto #amor propio #citas de amor #i 💜 you #💜 #i love you 💜 #escritos de amor

[awesomesaurous]

I found the Ruddigore cartoon through your fanart (love your work btw) and can I just say that this cartoon has so much meme potential because of how topsy-turvy the plot and characters are? I mean if the Dr Livesy walk from the old Treasure Island cartoon can become a meme, so can this. But it’ll be a long time that someone picks it up and make a meme out of it on TikTok or whatever.

it's a lot to hope for but I definitely agree with you about meme potential

and thanks so much, I'm glad you liked my art (and that you found a new cartoon because of it)!

#ask #anonymous #g&s #gilbert and sullivan #ruddigore #halas and batchelor #ruddigore 1967 #dick dauntless cannot be stopped

[bfuhrnerd]

(Sorry not sorry for both blorboposting and hyperfixationposting on main) Alright, so based off the hypothesis that Dracula takes place in 1893, and the fact that, besides Lucy, everyone in the cast is at least in their early to mid 20's...

It's not without reason to say that the majority of the cast of Dracula would have seen at least one or two of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas!

So, I have 2 questions for y'all:

1. What do y'all think our main cast would have thought of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas?

2. Which do you think would have been each character's favorite (regardless of whether they would have been able to see it or not)?

#dracula daily #dracula #I just know Lucy would have LOVED the pirates of penzance. Rip Lucy Westenra you would have loved the pirates of penzance #gilbert and sullivan #g&s #(I know lucy would have been like 7 at the premier of pirates but I still think she would have loved it whether at 7 or at 19)

[carpe-mamilia]

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.

I was tagged by @bunny-banana - thank you!

1. 19th century fashion. How it changed over time, the various layers and garments, how the industrial revolution changed manufacturing, the disappearance of regional fashions... God, Common Misconceptions alone would take more than an hour.

2. Detectorists. Beautiful, warm sitcom that explores friendship, disappointment, history, the relationship between people and landscapes. There's a very subtle mysticism all the way through and the music (by The Unthanks and Johnny Flynn) is glorious.

3. Sasha Regan's all-male Gilbert & Sullivan productions. They are SO GOOD OMG. Absolutely magical pieces of theatre: fluid, poignant, beautifully staged, very funny, very queer, gorgeously sung.

4. Fin-de-siècle gothic horror. Go on, ask me about invasion narratives, hypocrisy, and homosexuality in Dracula/ The Picture of Dorian Gray/ Jekyll & Hyde. I actually did an off-the-cuff mini lecture about queerness in Dracula once when we were doing a New Year's Eve party on zoom in 2020 as a forfeit. But I was pissed as a newt so I don't remember any of it.

5. Various poems by Philip Larkin - most specifically Church Going, An Arundel Tomb, and First Sight

Tagging @vinceaddams @mischieffoal @shimyereh @stoportotouch @hegodamask

#honourable mentions to twelfth night and bbc ghosts #and the terror #there are many people on tumblr who are a lot more knowledgeable about it than I am but I still think I could fill an hour! #regency fashion #victorian fashion #19th century #Detectorists #sasha regan #gilbert and sullivan #G&S #fin de siecle #philip larkin