🎭#OTD in #Theatre #History 14 March 1885, #GilbertAndSullivan's smash hit two-act comic #opera THE MIKADO premiered at the #SavoyTheatre in London. The 9th of their 14 collaborations, #ArthurSullivan wrote the music, #WSGilbert the libretto. It ran for 672 performances.

#morninglistening to something very diff'rent, very clever: #GilbertAndSullivan's HMSPinafore w/ Malcolm Sargent. And that despite I listen to light music basically never. Well, hardly ever.

How do you feel about G'n'S?

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#morninglistening to GilbertAndSullivan's Patience. Reflect, reflect, reflect the unreflectable: It's a bit of narcissism, something I would not be missing while the rhymes are most delectable.

Nearing my end of my great G&S education, alas.

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#TheMikado premiered in London #OnThisDay in 1885; while the operetta's Orientalism is problematic, it's one of #GilbertAndSullivan's greatest works of musical #theater; here's Valerie Masterson singing "The Moon & I" in 1966:

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#morninglistening to #GilbertAndSullivan's #TheGrandDuke. It first seems convoluted but doubts are quickly muted, on credulity it takes almost no toll, the importance of the sausage roll!

Now I've tracked all major G&S works down, methinks.

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Mel Giedroyc to guest star in ENO’s HMS Pinafore at the London Coliseum

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#ENO has announced that #MelGiedroyc will guest star in their acclaimed production of #GilbertandSullivan’s #HMSPinafore

London Coliseum for 12 performances only, from 4 Dec-7 Feb

🎭#OTD in #Theatre #History 14 March 1885, #GilbertAndSullivan's smash hit two-act comic #opera THE MIKADO premiered at the #SavoyTheatre in London. The 9th of their 14 collaborations, #ArthurSullivan wrote the music, #WSGilbert the libretto. It ran for 672 performances.

The UK had a furore over a fake Admiral at #remembranceday in #Llandudno, while #kingcharlie was an authorised fake #fieldmarshal in Whitehall.

But inbreeding is not the UK's approved only path to fake military rank.

#GilbertandSullivan's "Sir Joseph Porter" was a parody of W.H. Smith, the […]

#morninglistening to GilbertAndSullivan's Ruddigore and thus coming to the erstwhile end of my great G&S education. For this, I went w/the SimonPhipps/SaddlersWells recording. Right choice?

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#GilbertAndSullivan's "The #Pirates of #Penzance" #opera by @seattleopera.bsky.social at McCaw Hall. If you want to buy tickets, don't wait for my full review since there's only one more performance left on 11/1/25!

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