Patience

Anthony Warlow as Archibald Grosvenor.

[@richardcleveland8549]

That WAS brilliant! WHAT a pair they were! Absolutely perfect for the roles! Would that there were more performances as good as this one! Lovelovelove these two!

[@akirak1871]

For some reason, this gets funnier every time I watch it.

[@richardcleveland8549]

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

[@geoffwilson6047]

Easily the gold standard for this duet.

[@richardcleveland8549]

This was QUITE wonderful! What a terrific pair - spot on - and the dancing only makes it funnier! Bravo!

[@ozsfi]

I've always loved Olsen's acting and singing, and funny enough recognize him also from his thin ankles.

[@formby2]

Let's not forget to give credit to the superb Bunthorne of Dennis Olsen.

[@Tocsin-Bang]

To my mind one of the most difficult of the G&S songs, and I've never heard or seen a better version.

[@zionweaver]

This is classic, and one of the best songs from Patience. I love that the lyrics are closed captioned.

[@brianappleby5112]

I’m a huge G&S fan and I have heard most of the historical Doyly Carte Productions of Patience back to the Sir Henry Lytton era and I don’t believe that any of the Doyly Carte legends do this any better than Anthony Warlow and Dennis Olsen. Absolutely the best in my opinion and we are very lucky that we have a video of it to store for posterity.

[@zelalife2559]

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.

[@brianappleby5112]

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.

[@brianappleby5112]

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.

[@kathish]

I love this and heartily recommend the DVD (which I found at my local library). They're both absolutely terrific obviously. Also, consider that Dennis Olsen (mid-50s here) immediately had to resume speaking, singing and dancing in the next scene. I continue to be impressed by the physicality of G&S comedians. (Anthony Warlow had a complete change of costume in about 3 minutes and re-entered dancing and singing so he's no small shakes either.)

[@shakespearegames5378]

Here's the next scene where he's speaking, singing and dancing. He does pause for rest and refreshment at one point. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIm8Znqppd11d8k

[@kathyknight3896]

@@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!

[@gdj6298]

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.

[@jeddklampitt9749]

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

[@HedonismCentral]

I saw John Reed and Kenneth Sanford do this in the late 1970s at the Manchester Opera House .... this is total throwback and wonderful for it!

[@marham18]

II

[@RuthvenMurgatroyd]

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

[@HedonismCentral]

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

[@anthonyhenrysmith]

this Opera Australia production is truly the best set, costume, direction i have seen

[@Afalstein]

I've conceived of this as a hipster and hillbilly changing places, and now I can't get the image out of my head.

[@jackpoint188]

The Australian Broadcasting Company's production from 1995. Heather Begg was Lady Jane and Christine Douglas was Patience. And every part was done excellently.

[@WBensburg]

In true Gilbertian "Encore means, 'play again'" style!

[@TheKing-qz9wd]

Ladies and gentlemen, we hear your applause and we'll give you another round on the house. *Smashes wine glass on table Well I'll be damned! how nice.

[@karldelavigne8134]

Best performance! This is absolutely brilliant.

[@Tocsin-Bang]

Superb, I don't think I've seen or heard better.

[@joanpuddy2939]

Magnificent! But watch Anthony Warlow as the Pirate King. He’s amazing.

[@bairns1234]

Fabulous; Anthony Warlow is brilliant, as usual.

[@shirleykeeldar9662]

Best Patience ever. Full stop.

[@brianappleby5112]

Agreed

[@yelnats85]

sheer brilliance

[@vinylmisfit2165]

This is wonderful! Anthony is AMAZING!! Dennis seems like a treasure too.. I hope I can see the whole of this particular production one day.. Thank you for posting this clip! :)

[@HarveyDentalfloss]

Rap gods

[@kateandphoebe]

This is absolutely magnificent--a definitive performance of this song.

[@BlossomFlowerGirl]

That is brilliant, just brilliant!

[@marham18]

This is as good as I have ever seen this. Quite magbificent.

[@lexx2645]

Quite Magnificent indeed.

[@JackSarfatti]

Excellent performance.

[@Ginea25]

Those interested in this production will probably be happy to know that it's readily available for purchase on Amazon, and worth every penny :)

[@samparksharma10]

Could you perhaps link me to it?

[@BRANDY60rocks]

Amazing how they sing all those complicated songs brilliant thanks for posting 😅😅

[@coloraturaElise]

Absolutely fantastic! Acting, singing, and the choreography is so funny, and so well executed....bravi!!

[@coloraturaElise]

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

[@spress15]

An encore! Delightful.

[@flannerymonaghan-morris4825]

Dear god young Anthony is just too cute…

[@1AussieInJapan]

Haha love this vid! Nice legs Anthony! ;-)

[@anthonyhenrysmith]

Dennis Olsen is the supreme G&S comic actor

[@flanplan5903]

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

[@8000Christopher]

absolutely marvelous !!!!! thanks for posting

[@brentmarshall928]

Two VERY talented Australians.

[@jeddklampitt9749]

There are many talented Aussies working around the world.

[@potatoegirl31]

that dance number makes me crave BERRIES AND CREAM BERRIES AND CREAM! 😆

[@zacariasdelalcazar8873]

??? 😆 Why?

[@mirtabrkulj4951]

This is fantastic

[@Jamie_Pritchard]

Brilliant!

[@brucestephens1299]

Very funny and impressive 😂😌🥂

[@RuthvenMurgatroyd]

Excellent footwork, gentlemen!

[@ne-station0314]

This is available on DVD from ABC shops in Australia too. Good production at the Sydney Opera House in 1995.

[@michaeldornan7737]

Absolutely great!

[@joelhess7848]

Beautifully performed!

[@mclpcm]

Wonderful. The drollest of the G&S canon.

[@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan]

Really well done.

[@ArchieKennedy4ever]

I love it when Anthony Warlow is jack Sparrow in Pirates of Penzance

[@lexx2645]

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.

[@vermilliongecko]

@@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.

[@janevanbalen1451]

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

[@Bfdidc]

Thank you very much.

[@jeddklampitt9749]

Anthony Warlow does an excellent job here but he also does play the captain in HMS Pinafore to perfection.

[@SusannahMacDonald]

Excellent!

[@DancingTillIDie]

sensational!!!!!

[@anthonyhenrysmith]

brilliant!

[@qvide]

Wonderful!

[@Paulol100]

Bravo!!!

[@danaedwards7314]

At college university freshman year we did sweet charity in the late 1990s. I heard the year before I attended did this and Richard ii

[@Th0ughtf0rce]

You know what? Your comment made me look up "muRphy's law". LOL Brilliant Bunthorne and Grosvenor BTW.

[@mojosbigsticks]

Superb!

[@jkillam8390]

Lit

[@TheDuaBrandHQ]

Oh Sir, Jack.

[@Bfdidc]

It's the Ooriolis effect.

[@DeGuillac]

It's basically - costumes, set units, moves etc -- John Cox's famous English National Opera staging, which originally starred Derek Hammond-Stroud, and was recorded, in a messed-about form , for the Walker Video series.

[@robertmwoodley1502]

But it is Opera Australia here in the Sydney Opera House

[@christinefarquhar2858]

ETA for your flight ✈️ ✨️ 💕 💓

[@flannerymonaghan-morrs4740]

Anthony is so cute here...his haircut and mannerisms remind me of Keanu Reeve’s Ted from bill and ted mixed with Hugh Laurie in house...

[@flannerymonaghan-morrs4740]

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

[@Mousy677]

i honestly thought this bunthorne was john reed, for some reason

[@karldelavigne8134]

He was his understudy for a while.

[@stevevince5981]

Very reminiscent of John Reed, indeed!

[@MrCuddlyable3]

@westervilleacks you can look up Muphry's law in Wikipedia as it relates to "make the accurate".

[@coloraturaElise]

I'm sure Gilbert and Sullivan would approve!

[@martinkeith5543]

I was there haahahaha the difference in the two reditions was the bell ringer in the orchestra woke up and rang the little bells on the words a threepenny bus young man in the second go

[@gdj6298]

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

[@RossiniSoprano]

Fantastic! Here we have perfection in singing, acting, and dancing, all three of which are necessary to do G&S as it deserves to be done. And even great covering up, when Warlow forgets his cross down left. :-) Bravi! What production is this, btw?

[@jackpoint188]

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.

[@robertmwoodley1502]

@@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)

[@christinefarquhar2858]

Uop I think 🤔 😕 😅 😌 😐 😪 🤔 😕 😅 has had an absolute 💯 👌 🔥

[@the.youtube.of.sam.gotter]

The guy in green looks like Captain Hook

[@Ginea25]

Opera Australia.

[@rogerpropes7129]

"I am Adam Ant." ??

[@anthonyhenrysmith]

hilarious

[@vermilliongecko]

Is 'a blue and white young man' a specific reference to Oscar Wilde's china collection at Oxford University?

[@user-bc9mn7gq2c]

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.

[@shakespearegames5378]

Check out the final scene of Patience where Heather Begg (Lady Jane) accidentally knocks Dennis Olsen (Bunthorne) to the stage. She can't carry on for several seconds! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKiupaZjfLKSedU

[@Bfdidc]

What opera company did this? It's very good.

[@CageySea]

Opera Australia

[@Bfdidc]

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

[@manfredatee]

Yes, especiallly the capital c's being closed. "O"

[@jakethewoz]

Why are all the Cs Os?

[@christinefarquhar2858]

Lupi

[@bobheck8044]

Is the 2nd performance of the song part of the play or did they just do it?

[@peteranson4021]

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

[@christinefarquhar2858]

Luoe

[@bahoonies]

Hilarious. What a very, very slick performance. Pardon the pun but they didn't put a foot wrong.

[@flanplan5903]

How old was Warlow here? My guess is that he’s in his mid 20’s or so.

[@vogelfanger1074]

He was 33 during his run in Patience!

[@flanplan5903]

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

[@vogelfanger1074]

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

[@flanplan5903]

@@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).

[@vogelfanger1074]

@@flanplan5903 Indeed!

[@wisteria3032]

hi, sorry. can someone explain to me the joke with the subtitles showing Os instead of Cs?

[@frankwoodman780]

The serpent nd

[@francescoevangelista1448]

What is this? Anyone know which one this is

[@thomasw.eggers4303]

Gilbert & Sullivan, Patience, Opera Australia, 1995

[@danaedwards7314]

I did a documentary after college with another member of sweet charity for PBS on government women who were Jewish and coding in DC in world war 2 for the government. I grew up in the met opera but wasn't in Ai da

[@danaedwards7314]

The director was named Sewell of the documentary.

[@danaedwards7314]

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.

[@christinefarquhar2858]

Cinm

[@ArchieKennedy4ever]

Is Anthony meant to run off????

[@bigred8432]

What do you think?

[@Kaspleen]

What version of Patience is this? When was it performed and where?

[@wishmaster7438]

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

[@Kaspleen]

Thank you

[@christinefarquhar2858]

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[@the.youtube.of.sam.gotter]

What is this from? This reeks of Gilbert and Sullivan

[@thomasw.eggers4303]

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

[@RuthvenMurgatroyd]

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

[@christinefarquhar2858]

Masprilj

[@christinefarquhar2858]

Madrolj

[@christinefarquhar2858]

C I

[@christinefarquhar2858]

Iop

[@mojosbigsticks]

Pallid and thin ... haggard and lank... greenery-yallery... foot in the grave young man? Is this the original emo?

[@Red_Devil_2011]

Really good, except the man in the green shirt kept screwing up the parts of the song when they're skipping! He keeps muddling up "ultra-poetical super aesthetical" with "alphabetical arithmetical" and it throws the other guy off. God damn.

[@christinefarquhar2858]

Uo I think 🤔 will not want