I remember seeing this live! I also remember following John English down the streets of Melbourne for his autograph. Oh, I was a stalkerish 10 year old then.
A lot of the jokes are very specific to Australia and NZ. I personally love it. It's certainly not aimed at the purists though. Australians find fun in poking fun at things, including themselves.
I agree -- I saw a production in 1995 at a community theatre and the KoKo there did the same thing. Then in 2004 when I was in The Mikado, he did it again! Eric Idle was the first I saw doing the digging too. I like it though. :) Makes it more comedic to me.
Poo-bah. For this production, they merged Poo-Bah with Pish-Tush and gave him a bigger part. Suprisingly, it actually works prety well. I always thought that Pish-Tush didn't belong.
I love this song! I love love love when Jon English enters and says "Here's a slippery slope." and then falls! I cracked up laughing! :)
gilbert and sullivan humor is so timeless... lol LOVE the pop references
i love how they bring in John for absolutely no reason :P
I remember seeing this live!
I also remember following John English down the streets of Melbourne for his autograph. Oh, I was a stalkerish 10 year old then.
A lot of the jokes are very specific to Australia and NZ. I personally love it. It's certainly not aimed at the purists though. Australians find fun in poking fun at things, including themselves.
That 4th guy coming out was quite the surprise
I would like to see this entire production sometime. It is silly and fun and different.
Thank you so much for putting these clips up. I adore them.
I think that this the best song in the whole show!!!
ha ha ha buried alive, buried alive
that's funny :)
thanks for sharing these
I LOVE this!
I agree -- I saw a production in 1995 at a community theatre and the KoKo there did the same thing. Then in 2004 when I was in The Mikado, he did it again! Eric Idle was the first I saw doing the digging too. I like it though. :) Makes it more comedic to me.
I saw the 2009 Season of this in Adeliade (Simon G production [same as this])
It was awesome
Poo-bah. For this production, they merged Poo-Bah with Pish-Tush and gave him a bigger part. Suprisingly, it actually works prety well. I always thought that Pish-Tush didn't belong.
A fun interpretation.
The conductor of the orchestra
It also looks like the "three little maids" include Peep-Bo, Pitti-Sing, and someone new, not Yum-Yum. Am I missing something?
I think the madrigal brightly dawns our wedding day was cut out of the performance because of time issues.
Was it by any chance aired on PBS? They had nearly all of Gilbert & Sullivan's operettas on there. I think Clive Revill played Ko-Ko.
disturbingly, the KOKO sounds like SWISS TONY from the fast show