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HMS Pinafore : 3 of 5
7.04.2006 10:17 AM \| Link	My friend Tom and I had never seen a Gilbert & Sullivan production before, so we decided to go see the Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin's HMS Pinafore. I don't think anything can really prepare you for one of these shows - all I had seen before were countless parodies of the various songs (including Stewie singing the the best HMS song on Family Guy), but the reality is that the actual show is so bizarre that it's exactly like the parody! HMS Pinafore tells the simple story of a lowly sailor who's in love with the captain's daughter, but their love isn't "proper" because they are in different social classes. Hardly anything happens in the plot - just some wooing, a failed attempt at eloping, and a sudden revealing of a secret that makes everything turn out happily. The holes are filled with song after song, and each song is filled with mountains of lyrics, all written with wry British wit. The rhymes are really quite remarkable, and lots of fun to listen to (although the slower numbers were a little boring). The cast was really good, mainly because it was obvious that they were all Gilbert & Sullivan fans who were having a wonderful time! It was great that they had a live mini-orchestra, too, which I didn't expect (since the production was in a high-school auditorium). It was a packed show, with a huge number of senior citizens, so there's definitely a bunch of Austinites who love this stuff! I'm glad we went to see it, and I wouldn't mind checking out another show sometime. Labels: arts


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