AB-SO-LUTE-LY!!!!!

Have you ever seen Doyly Carte perform?😅In addition, Dennis Olsen is also a former Doyly Carte member，As far as the Patience video currently exists, 1982 Brent Walker is better.

I am 73 years old and have been a G&S fan and amateur performer since I was 18. I saw all of the D’Oyly Carte productions most more than once in the 1960’s through early 1980’s. I recall John Reed as Bunthorne and Kenneth Sandford as Grosvenor and I stand by my conviction that this is the best version of this particular song that I have ever seen. By Brent Walker you mean the producer of the 1982 tv version? I don’t think I have seen it but until I do this is mt favourite.

Denis Olsen was John Reeds understudy at Doyly Carte for several years but returned to Australia when he realised that Reed wasn’t likely to retire soon.

Here's the next scene where he's speaking, singing and dancing. He does pause for rest and refreshment at one point. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kL6JaKqk1d6mcZs.html

@@shakespearegames5378 All through this part all I can think of is poor Grosvernor in the wings being stripped down and re-dressed by the ASMs for his next entrance. Thanks for this!

Saw Dennis Olsen in 1991 - a Sunday matinee of the one-man show "A Song to Sing-o ", about George Grossmith, at Sydney Opera House (one of the smaller venues in the complex). Brilliant. Plus, during the interval, you could wander out and eat your ice-cream with a view of Sydney Harbour. A memorable afternoon.

Aussie actors, singers, and musicians are always disciplined and well-trained in the arts and music.

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Best compliment I could imagine for a G&S performance.

I saw John Reed do this in the same place and in the same decade! It is a joy.

And this number amply demonstrates why choreography matters so much in G&S...the number is pretty pedestrian without it.

Agreed

Could you perhaps link me to it?

Quite Magnificent indeed.

??? 😆 Why?

There are many talented Aussies working around the world.

Absolutely. Both of them look like they are having the time of their lives in this.

Anthony Warlow Never played Jack Sparrow! You must mean the Pirate King. Jack Sparrow was from Pirates of the Caribbean, when the captain from Pirates of penzance was called the Pirate King.

@@lexx2645 I think Marion was joking. I saw a production of Pirates of Penzance where the Pirate King's costume was definitely modelled on Captain Jack.

Vermillion 303 and not just the costume was modelled on Jack Sparrow! Lol

Actually correction hugh Laurie in blackadder...stupid me.

But Warlow didn't "pull" the bell the first time round. I think that was pre-arranged to enhance the "impromptu" encore :-)

He was his understudy for a while.

Very reminiscent of John Reed, indeed!

Audience reaction showed they wanted an encore and they got it.

Australia Broadcast Company 1995 performance. Absolutely brilliant, sparkling, like catching lightning in a bottle. Loved my Facebook friend Toni Powell with the cymbals and can watch this over and over.

@@jackpoint188 ABC broadcast of Opera Australia's Patience from the Sydney Opera House., here showing Anthony Warlow (Australia's first Phantom) and Dennis Olsen (G&S comic roles)

But it is Opera Australia here in the Sydney Opera House

He was 33 during his run in Patience!

@@vogelfanger1074 wait what??? I thought he did do Gilbert and Sullivan when he was in his 20’s.

@@flanplan5903 He did a few Gilbert & Sullivan roles during his 20s as well as later in his 40s. Patience was in 1995

@@vogelfanger1074 it also helps that he always looks a lot younger than he is usually (hell for most of his 40’s he looked like he was in his 30’s).

@@flanplan5903 Indeed!

The director was named Sewell of the documentary.

An x worked for the American gov and found the wallet of another producer for PBS on the street once and I returned it. His last name sounded like devil liar and he did Monty python.

Possibly -- when did he give the collection to Oxford? 1881 or before? Seems more likely that it's just a reference to certain types of porcelain & porcelain design that (I believe) the Aesthetic movement favored.

Opera Australia

@@CageySea Thanks. I actually bought the DVD of this peformance shortly after posting. It’s great fun.

Gilbert & Sullivan, Patience, Opera Australia, 1995

Reeks??? Absolutely! And it is the best G&S performance I have ever seen. Ever. Anywhere. Australian Opera, 1995, Sydney Opera House.

Of course, this is from Patience by Gilbert and Sullivan. It's parodying aestheticism.

This is the 1995 Australian Opera version. I have on DVD. This is one of the best versions that I have seen Of Patience.

Thank you

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