Gilbert and Sullivan scored their first international hit with H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), satirising the rise of unqualified people to positions of authority. As with many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise twist changes everything dramatically near the end of the story – the item of protective clothing itself gets ideas above its station, causes a mutiny and heads off to sea with a bunch of pirates (not sure where they came from, the pirates. Newlyn, or Newquay or somewhere).
Apart from a minor hit single in 1990 and a compilation album in 1991, Gilbert and Sullivan were absent from the charts until H.M.S. Pinnystains returned them to the UK Top 20 in 2004. It’s just a matter of time before someone else performs this comic masterpiece. The sequel to the 19th century opera, it shows the pinafore in retirement, contemplating its future as a heritage site. It may even return to its first love, whose identity is never revealed in the earlier production ...
6 comments:
Aaaaaaahhh there she blows, poop stains on the poop deck....All this time after i searched high n' low n' in between ,exposing myself....To untold dangers!..Then to recieve a note of the return of my stain riddled pinny . The house is done up with balloons and bunting ,only to find it was a cruel deception . You with your designer eye patch and Dior parrot on your padded designer shoulder-padded pirate jacket has taken it to raid cargo ships and pillage around indonesian waters, whens Ross Kemp doing a documentary on you.
OOps i just spliced my mainbrace, got to go.
Landlubber Tim
This brought a smile to my face!
The way you're going Tim, you are going to be Alone Again (Naturally)...
I'm lonely in a crowd, its that Cathy Simpson ,she's brought the attention of the world down upon my quite shy retiring unassuming shoulders. But where i'm sitting in a bombsite of a studio ,she's walking red carpets with the rich n' wonderful around the world living off my fame. I've got to go and clean up after the dog. Alone again naturally.
Lonesome Tim
Don't make her angry mate, apparently she's very good at cross hatcheting.
Ha!..Do you think that worries me ,she's not seen my stippling, yet.
Dotty Tim
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