18 Sep 05 - 04:38 PM (#1566187) Subject: Lyr Add: HMS Pinafore 'A Maiden Fair to See' From: chico
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18 Sep 05 - 05:20 PM (#1566216) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: HMS Pinafore 'A Maiden Fair to See' From: Le Scaramouche This won't work as a serious song. |
18 Sep 05 - 06:30 PM (#1566262) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: HMS Pinafore 'A Maiden Fair to See' From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks for posting, Chico. I liked this song when I first heard it, at about age 13. The version I heard started with "A maiden fair to see." It's a beautiful melody, and I still sing it sometimes. ------- Recently I went to a performance of the Mikado. The second half started with a lovely piece called "The Sun Whose Rays." It is nice for piano or flute. |
18 Sep 05 - 07:00 PM (#1566281) Subject: ADD: When I Was a Lad (HMS Pinafore) From: Joe Offer When I was in college, I did lights for a production of HMS Pinafore. The spotlight man and I sat up in the light booth, singing along loudly with all the songs until the director yelled, "Shut up!" I was in a Catholic seminary, so we had guys playing the female parts. I never felt comfortable with that, and the guy who played Buttercup was just a bit too believable. Still, I had a great time with that play. You'll find the entire libretto, with lyrics, here (click). I guess my favorite song from Pinafore is "When I Was a Lad":
I sing it at sea song sessions, which probably isn't appropriate - but I like that song. -Joe Offer- |
18 Sep 05 - 07:10 PM (#1566292) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: The Fooles Troupe I thought you would have been Buttercup, Joe... |
18 Sep 05 - 07:19 PM (#1566293) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: kendall My favorite play. At the tender age of 13 I was one of the sailors in the chorus. |
18 Sep 05 - 07:50 PM (#1566299) Subject: Lyr Add: I'M CALLED LITTLE BUTTERCUP (Gilbert...) From: Joe Offer D'ya think I could do it, Foolestroupe? Gee, I always thought I had a great falsetto....
Enter LITTLE BUTTERCUP, with large basket on her arm
BOAT. Aye, Little Buttercup--and well called--for you're the rosiest, the roundest, and the reddest beauty in all Spithead. BUT. Red, am I? and round--and rosy! Maybe, for I have dissembled well! But hark ye, my merry friend--hast ever thought that beneath a gay and frivolous exterior there may lurk a canker-worm which is slowly but surely eating its way into one's very heart?
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18 Sep 05 - 07:54 PM (#1566307) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: Nigel Parsons You don't need a falsetto, as a 'bum-boat' woman Buttercup can happily be sung in any range. (Just my personal opinion) Nigel (Whose favourite is "Ruddigore; or The Witches Curse") |
18 Sep 05 - 08:06 PM (#1566317) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: kendall We used real girls, saved a lot of confusion. |
18 Sep 05 - 08:12 PM (#1566321) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: Bill Hahn//\\ Here is a bit of trivia that, perhaps, some of you have picked up on. But, first. I love all the G&S canon---perhaps my favorite is Iolanthe---but--hell, the brilliant rhymes of Gilbert and the satirical points---amazing. OK--the trivia. If any of you watch Larry David---Curb Your Enthusiasm you may know this---at the really punch line moments--in all episodes---what music do you think it is? Instrumental--not lyrics. Answer: Three Little Girls From School---Mikado. Bill Hahn |
18 Sep 05 - 08:21 PM (#1566328) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: chico If you really want the highlights. . . Some of these are not quite complete.
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18 Sep 05 - 09:09 PM (#1566358) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: chico Updated:
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18 Sep 05 - 09:23 PM (#1566363) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: Joe Offer Ah, those songs bring back great memories! Yeah, I think I'll try doing Buttercup as a bass - much better idea than falsetto. I really like Penzance, Ruddigore, Mikado and The Sorcerer, but I think Pinafore is my favorite. -Joe Offer- |
18 Sep 05 - 09:34 PM (#1566370) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: chico Corrected Nightengale
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18 Sep 05 - 10:01 PM (#1566378) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: chico CORRECTED
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19 Sep 05 - 12:22 AM (#1566414) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: The Fooles Troupe Say Buttercup Joe, You want to do your version of the 'Buttercup Song' from The Three Amigos? |
19 Sep 05 - 08:24 AM (#1566576) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: A Wandering Minstrel My personal favourite and oft overlooked but good advice to shantymen anyway... A british tar is a soaring soul, as free as a mountain bird, his energetic fist should be ready to resist a dictatorial word. His nose should should pant, and his lip should curl, his cheeks should flame, and his brow should furl, his bosom should heave, and his heart should glow, and his fist be ever ready for a knock-down blow... (all:) His nose should pant and his lip should curl, his cheeks should flame and his brow should furl, his bosom should heave and his heart should glow, and his fist be ever ready for a knock-down blow. His eyes should flash with an inborn fire, his brow with scorn be wrung; he never should bow down to a domineering frown, or the tang of a tyrant tongue. His foot should stamp, and his throat should growl, his hair should twirl, and his face should scowl, his eyes should flash, and his breast protrude, and this should be his customary attitude. (all:) His foot should stamp, and his throat should growl, his hair should twirl, and his face should scowl; his eyes should flash, and his breast protrude, and this should be his customary attitude, his attitude, his attitude, his attitude! |
19 Sep 05 - 11:40 AM (#1566677) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: chico Trouble is, I personally can't do that one above because it is an acapello trio. . . |
19 Sep 05 - 12:51 PM (#1566730) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: GUEST,Arkie Glad to know that there are others who appreciate the Gilbert & Sullivan operettas. I used to enjoy the Savoyard performances when I lived near Norfork, VA years ago. Other favorties of mine are "A Policeman's Lot is Not a Happy One", (may have another title), "I Am The Very Model of A Modern Major General" (Pay Sky, Tom Paxton, & others performed this at the Philadelphia festival one year), and "Sing Me A Song Oh". (Peter Paul & Mary recorded this). |
20 Sep 05 - 10:42 AM (#1566806) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: Tannywheeler On a tree by a river a dickybird lit, Singing Willow, titwillow, titwillow; And I said to him, "Dickybird, why do you sit And sing Willow, titwillow, titwillow? Is it weakness of intellect, birdy," I cried. "Or a rather tough worm in your little inside?" With a shake of his poor little head he replied, "Oh, Willow, titwillow, titwillow!" (now there's a verse about how the bird commits suicide by throwing himself into the watery something-or-other.) Now I'm sure--just as sure as I'm sure that my name Isn't Willow, titwillow, titwillow-- That 'twas love unrequited which made him exclaim, "Oh, Willow, titwillow, titwillow!" And, if you remain callous and obdurate, I Shall perish as he did and you will know why-- Though I probably shall not exclaim as I die, "Oh, Willow, titwillow, titwillow!" As a woman I can tell you that, as a pick-up line this sucks. One wonders how the Victorians/Edwardians managed to reproduce at all. BUT--as audience at The Mikado, this rates as one of the great pieces of music of all time. It brings me to a point of pleasure akin to Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, Beethoven's Ode to Joy, a really well-harmonized version of Amazing Grace or Keep On the Sunny Side (especially a sing-along version of either). As noted in a previous thread, Three Little Maids From School ain't no slouch, either. Tw |
20 Sep 05 - 12:31 PM (#1566895) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: Le Scaramouche Has anyone heard about the Yiddish adaptation? |
21 Sep 05 - 07:55 AM (#1567557) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: A Wandering Minstrel Chico, Never stopped me, just wear a different eye-patch for each chorus ;) Im also quite partial to the Pirate Kings song from Pirates of Penzance |
21 Sep 05 - 10:17 AM (#1567656) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: Tannywheeler Leave us all remember the dictum that: "A policeman's lot Is not A happy one! (ha-pee one.)" Tw |
21 Sep 05 - 02:28 PM (#1567843) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: Schantieman A Nappy One I was Capt. Corcoran in a prod. of this a few years ago. great fun - I like his first song - quoted above - and also his big moment at the start of Act 2 - 'Fair Moon, to Thee I Sing" Steve |
21 Sep 05 - 09:48 PM (#1568111) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Songs from HMS Pinafore From: The Fooles Troupe i was got conned into doing the lighting for my brother's school production of 'Pirates' - and another year 'Little Abner'... |