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Why is sweet little Buttercup never sweet nor little?!?! 🤭

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This was one of my most favourite shows to perform in in the Savs pit orchestra. This brought back some wonderful memories 🥰

Some absolutely beautiful voices here. I'm performing in the congregation in this show in December and I can't wait!!

Incredible performance 🎭 fantastic work ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

1:13:30 First "Hail Poetry", now the madrigal here in Ruddigore. Ya'll are really good at the acapella choral sections. Especially love Richard's extra "fa la la la la". I love this. I love the Tim Burton theme. I love Mad Margaret.

Saving money using old costumes from the King and street clothes probably wasn't the best idea, but musically okay

16:34 capitan of the pinafore

57:12 This acapella choral section for Hail Poetry gives me feelings. It's so beautiful. I love it so much. Love this whole show really. And the fact that they play the Firefly theme right after intermission... Be still my beating heart.

gilbert and sullivan had no way of knowing but we were just asking for the sailor to be co opted with choreography like this. it was only a matter of time.

I understand why the modern major general considers this nonsense. We might be heading there with our navy now though.

This may be nine years old now, but the wonder of CZcams is that, for some of us, this can still be the first viewing! I know Ruddigore well but this is the first American production I've seen or heard. A really impressive effort!

It is many years since I visited the delightful village of Redherring. I attended boarding school in an old, gold-mining town noted for its many schools, asylums and aged care facilities - the perfect place for Gilbert and Sullivan's operattas, now that I come to think of it! Each year the larger schools would put on a full scale production and tour it around the larger towns. They were very popular, and the talent they brought to the fore was astounding. I was in the chorus of bridesmaids, and loved it, the music, the fun, the whole experience. Thank you for bringing back the memories with your first-class performance. 🇦🇺

I remember this production; this was my favorite FOTR. Where can I view the entire show?

It's not so much that Ralph and the Captain are the same age, as young women often married men much older than them in the Nineteenth Century, but that the Captain chooses to marry Buttercup, who was already a teenager/young adult when Ralph and the Captain were born. I think that's the true joke here.

Thanks so much for sharing this! I've wanted to see this for years!

Great singing and acting. You keep the audience intranced.

So this is what I have been missing

Sideshow Bob didn't bring me here - many many thanks for posting this performance - it was a really great show

My thanks must go to George Brice , who was a Master Baker and Confectioner who resided in Shipley Bradford in the early 1960’s. I was in my first year at Bradford College taking City & Guilds in Bread Making & Flour Confectionery. Mr George Brice and colleague Mr Charley Bradley were officiating the exam over the day. Over the next several years I was supported by both. I would visit George’s Bakery in the evenings to gain experience and knowledge. I remember asking George if I could make and decorate my then girlfriends ‘Sister’s wedding cake’. As you can imagine this was over a number weeks and over that time I was introduced to Gilbert & Sullivan . George was a active member of the Harrogate Gilbert & Sullivan Society HARROGATE, who’s music has stayed with me and given great pleasure over my life time. Thank you for posting, it has reminded me of times gone bye , in what has been a difficult time.🙏🙏🎼🎶🎼🎶 God Bless and stay safe.

1:09:44 No. 15 The hours creep on apace - Josephine

44:08 No. 11 Refrain audacious tar -Josephine and Ralph Duet

7:19 No. 2 Recitative and Song - Mrs. Cripps (Buttercup)

If only there were a button to push that might set each Empire forever in its decline Gilbert and Sullivan would be perpetually valued

I wish everyone would pick an accent and stick with it

So let me get this straight... 1) Ralph Rackstraw is the same age as the Capt. thus was able to be switched at birth. 2) Ralph was such a poor sailor that he is still in the beginning post of top mast hand whereas Capt has risen through the ranks seemingly on merit from Ensign to Capt. 3) Capt's daughter wants to marry a dolt of a man as old as her father. While the Capt wants to marry Buttercup at least 15 yrs his senior. 4) If we assume Buttercup was 15 when she switched the babies and if we assume, Capt's daughter is 15 now, Capt & Ralph would be 30 yrs old now, and Buttercup is 45. If we assume they were/are 20, then Capt & Ralph are both 40 now and Buttercup is 60. Anyone else think this whole thing doesn't make a lick of sense?

which year was this performed?

He states that he has never seen another woman but they are all around him on board! Why do you mess around so much with the story? Apart from the singing this is very unentertaining! JM

I really enjoyed that!

6:50 8:00 18:15 1:40:30

urrrrgh Marching is lazy choreo. I like some elements here. And some principals have lovely voices. :) memories

As long as something brought you here! Doing this show years ago....so nostalgia brought me here. Now I am older and can play BUTTERCUP!

Very well Bart.....I shall send you to heaven .....before I send you to hell!

Oh wow! Finally something GOOD in my suggestions! Wish it would've popped up sooner!

puck him in, toys!

Some really lovely singing!!

Side shoe bob brought me here

How many are here because of Sideshow Bob?

Not gonna lie, the Simpsons definitely brought me here

This was my first G&S, and remains my favourite (having chased the full repertoire over many years). I was in the last seat in a full house: the back row of the gods, beside the bio box. The show is as fresh and witty today as it was 140 years ago, and this production has revived lots of magic memories.

Not the easiest of Operettas. Forgiving the Americanisms that crept in, an entertaining production. A little more solemnity required at times and less clowning perhaps - it was breaking the pomposity (cf Poo Bah in the Mikado) which Victorians found funny. Well done. It must have been great fun to do.