Gilbert & Sullivan - H.M.S. Pinafore / Marshall, Howerd, Jones, Opera World
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Actor: Frankie Howerd, Gordon Sandison, Meryl Drower, Michael Bulman, Peter MarshallDirector: Rodney Greenberg
Brand: Acorn
Producer: Edward Simons
Producer: George Walker
Producer: Judith de Paul
Writer: William S. Gilbert
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 96 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Acorn Media
DVD Reviews of Gilbert & Sullivan - H.M.S. Pinafore / Marshall, Howerd, Jones, Opera World
DVD Review: Absolutely tragic. Dreadful.
Summary: 1 Stars
What a waste of production dollars--or pounds--or both. The idiotic policy of selecting "names" rather than strong performers, which battered every production in this series--here derails the whole affair. Add to that the cruel irony that nobody over there knew Peter Marshall and that nobody over here knew Frankie Howerd, and there you are--the most embarrassing catastrophe to afflict the great Gilbert and the sublime Sullivan since the real-estate agent's wife filled in for the ailing pastor in the role of Ralph Rackstraw when the Auxiliary produced Pinafore in the high-school auditorium back in '08.
Howerd cannot sing: yet somehow this was not understood to disqualify him from a pivotal role in an opera. He simply recites the lines, out of tempo, and, although he isn't singing, yet somehow oddly out of tune. Howerd also thinks that he's funnier than Gilbert, and therefore need not bother himself with anything like learning lines. He'll make them up as he goes along.
Fortunately, we don't have to listen to much of it, as the sound man was, like us, unable to keep from turning away from this massacre of art, and kept his microphone at a suitable distance most of the time.
The role of Buttercup, which demands an Anne Collins, went instead to a--sorry--didn't catch the name--while Josephine, written for a Nan Christie, was given instead to--sorry--didn't understand a word the woman said.
I could go on, but--I can't go on.
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