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markd-newman
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The Pirates of Penzance (1983)
Beneath serious critique
13 August 2006 - 5 out of 17 users found this review helpful.
The years of training which gifted classical singers and musicians devote to performing G&S professionally are ridiculed by this puerile production. Drowning in an ocean of gratuitous modernity, this agonising cacophony of noise and infantile showing-off sinks beneath considered criticism.
The orchestral backing resembles the accelerated demo' mode of a low-end, 1980's electronic keyboard whilst the vocal and character performances are simply too catastrophically off target for serious comment.
Advocates of G&S in the Savoy tradition must bypass this particular avenue of pleasure at all costs. The "ah bless them" mantra which can be useful for some amateur G&S performances dissolves into insignificance for this sensory assault.
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