Gilbert and Sullivan: Their biggest success - "The Mikado" | A Motley Pair (4/5)

[@fizzao1342]

Yeoman making me cry all over again. Bravo!

[@DJStotty]

Two of my favourite characters appear here in Motley Pair 4/5 and if performed well will always result in me being in floods of tears. Thank you to both Jill Pert and Simon Butteriss for a superb performance from both Katisha and Jack Point. Katisha for 'O living I' (Alone and yet alive) and Jack Point in the finale of The Yeomen of the Guard. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for both. Thank you ..... now where is my hanky ....

[@lekmirn.hintern8132]

Simon Butteriss is just beyond superb -- six stars out of five -- and this series is a treasure.

[@tommytar222]

Thank you for putting this together.

[@oldcremona]

24:22 YOTG is my favorite G&S opera and I've never seen the final scene done so powerfully.

[@mariashelly6392]

So glad I found this!

[@jvgreendarmok]

18:51 Eric Lewis... who Simon Butteriss himself played in Mike Leigh's "Topsy-Turvy". :)

[@thomasw.eggers4303]

What Mikado performance is this from? I would really love to get a full performance. It looks delightful!

[@harpo345]

I always found Jonathan Miller the most appallingly self-satisfied intellectual snob and this has confirmed me in that view.

[@jstevenson7121]

Yes. Of all those satirical geniuses of that era (Cooke, Moore, Python's etc. etc.) Miller always just rubbed the wrong way. Pretentious twit.

[@JohnnieAshton]

My late Aunt Mildred was a very good friend of Alan Bennett, and saw him in ~Beyond the Fringe~ at the Fortune Theatre back in the 1960s. She went back stage and met the cast. 30+ years later she said Dudley Moore was very witty, and Peter Cook was charming. Oh and Jonathan Miller, she couldn't remember him, so she figured he was just boring, tee hee hee.

[@Nina5144]

Miller’s comments were cut here. He says he hates G&S and compares their patriotic songs and fans as similar to UKIP, Germaine Greer (who will start an row in an empty room) calls the patriotism and fans as ‘racist’. Yet G&S are hugely popular throughout the world

[@webz3589]

He is an insufferable burk. Of course to people like him, anything that doesn't shit all over Britain in the most hateful, non subtle manor must be racist 🙄

[@maximilianpound1700]

His words are previously shown in an earlier part so they are not cut and the viewer if watching chronologically is aware of his opinions and therefore understand why his opinions on the mikado are rather unique

[@lekmirn.hintern8132]

@@maximilianpound1700 "Rather unique"... nicely put. I've always been surprised at how G&S fans always seemed to be so pleased with his MIKADO, which was just pus. "Let's take the greatest musical comedy ever written and drain all the humor out of it." Yeah, brilliant.

[@dimetronome]

Plus, the G&S song most often interpreted as being "patriotic" and most frequently used by ultra-nationalists on the far-right ('He Is an Englishman!') is so obviously a satire of patriotism.

[@jaapweel1]

Germaine Greer's bit is in the 2/5 segment (different video) and she manages to somehow wiggle her TERF nonsense into a 2 minute soundbite on Gilbert and Sullivan, it's amazing.

[@foveauxbear]

The sword falling from the wall anecdote has been never proven to have happened. According to research done for the movie Topsy Turvy.

[@jeffreyhoward879]

Who is the glorious soprano at 21’ 24”?

[@jvgreendarmok]

I think it's Charlotte Page.

[@jeffreyhoward879]

@@jvgreendarmok - thought so. I was at the RAM with her.

[@bruceweaver1518]

You sing the “Away remorse!” This was never recorded by D’Oyly Carte. Did you find this in Sullivan’s music, or was it just published and ignored?

[@oldcremona]

0:06 I know not of what he speaks

[@nrm77]

Condescending much Jonathan Miller?

[@tomshea8382]

Way too much post-modern wise-assery in the little performances.

[@thomasw.eggers4303]

The first time I heard the Mikado was on a 33 in 1957. I loved it then, and I love it now. The "post-modern wise-assery" gives an interpretation I had not heard before. I'm still deciding whether or not I like the interpretation, but it was interesting.

[@joanr3189]

Miller seems to lack a sense of humour.