"""The Author's Ordeal"" (1957), a pastiche of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song similar to the Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song from ""Iolanthe"", depicting the agonies that Asimov went through in thinking up a new science fiction story. Another such pastiche is ""The Foundation of S.F. Success"" (1954). Both are included in his collection of short stories ""Earth Is Room Enough"". The Rats, Bats and Vats series also includes numerous G&S character names and phrases, since the D'Oyly Carte recordings of their work provide a portion of the language material for the genetically engineered and cybernetically enhanced ""rats"" in the stories."
"Sullivan and Gilbert Sullivan and Gilbert is a jukebox musical by Ken Ludwig with music and lyrics by Gilbert and Sullivan. ""Sullivan and Gilbert"" features over 15 Gilbert and Sullivan songs. It examines a fictional day in 1890 when the Victorian era composer and dramatist, while embroiled in their 1890 ""carpet quarrel"", are requested by Queen Victoria to present a revue of songs from their operas on short notice. The musical premiered in 1983 in Milford, New Hampshire, and it has been revived several times in various places in North America. ""Sullivan and Gilbert"" premiered in 1983 in Milford, New"
"and The Two Ronnies' 1973 Christmas Special. Other comedians have used Gilbert and Sullivan songs as a key part of their routines, including Hinge and Bracket, Anna Russell, and the ""HMS Yakko"" episode of the animated TV series ""Animaniacs"". Songs from Gilbert and Sullivan are often pastiched in advertising, and elaborate advertising parodies have been published, as have the likenesses of various Gilbert and Sullivan performers throughout the decades. Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas are commonly referenced in literature, film and television in various ways that include extensive use of Sullivan's music or where action occurs during a performance of"
"in Northern Africa and the Christian states of the Mediterranean, especially Genoa. The theme is the sorrows and separations that are always incidental to war. The central characters are a sailor and his love, who are separated when he goes to battle, and later reunited. The final chorus, ""Sink and Scatter, Clouds of War,"" was later renamed ""The Song of Peace"" and was played separately as a concert item. The same year as ""On Shore and Sea"" premiered, W. S. Gilbert first worked together with Sullivan, on a burleque-style comic opera, ""Thespis"". Four years later, in 1875, Gilbert and Sullivan's"
"Night"" as well as the 1997 film ""Wilde"". In the pilot episode of the 2008 CBS series, ""Flashpoint"", a police officer and his partner sing the policeman's song. In the 2009 ""Criminal Minds"" episode ""The Slave of Duty"", Hotch quotes ""Oh dry the glist'ning tear"". In addition to reminiscences, picture books and music books by performers, conductors and others connected with, or simply about, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, the Light Opera of Manhattan, the J. C. Williamson Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company and other Gilbert and Sullivan repertory companies, numerous fictional works have been written using the G&S operas"
"irresistible noodle with a ludicrous ripeness in his tones and a vivid appreciation of the humour."" He was also admired for his Osmin in Mozart's ""Die Entführung aus dem Serail"", in which he displayed both his buffo and his dramatic skills. He appeared in the 1953 film ""The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan"", and in several Gilbert and Sullivan concerts at the Proms. Of the first of these, in 1955, ""The Times"" wrote, ""So far as comedy was concerned, Mr Owen Brannigan won hands down in his magnificently done Sentry's Song (from ""Iolanthe"")."" ""The Times"" considered Brannigan to be ""perhaps"
"""Hollywood Pinafore"", the 1975 animated film ""Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done"" and, more recently,""Gondoliers"" (2001; a Mafia-themed adaptation) and ""Pinafore Swing"" (2004), each of which was first produced at the Watermill Theatre, in which the actors also served as the orchestra, playing the musical instruments. Shows that use G&S songs to tell the story of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership include a 1938 Broadway show, ""Knights of Song"", and a 1975 West End show called ""Tarantara! Tarantara!"" Many other musicals parody or pastiche the operas. However, the influence of Gilbert and Sullivan on goes beyond musical theatre to comedy in"
"and Sullivan before his arrival in the U.S. in 1886, their popularity led him to adopt some of their musical and dramatic sensibilities. An example of this is the quintet ""Cleopatra's Wedding Day"" from ""The Wizard of the Nile"". One of his early successes, ""The Serenade"", borrows many of its situations from ""Ruddigore"", ""Iolanthe"" and ""The Pirates of Penzance"". The work's librettist, Harry B. Smith, went on to steal more Gilbertian ideas for future operettas with Herbert, who often would complement these ideas with music reminiscent of Sullivan. ""The Singing Girl"", co-written by Smith and Stanislaus Stange, recalls ""The Mikado"","
"national anthem of the fictional Bible Belt. In Christopher Webber's 1993 play ""Dr Sullivan and Mr Gilbert"", the hymn is used with new words about Sullivan's rise to fame, and the artistic compromises that entailed. ""Christian Zeal and Activity"", a 1973 work by American composer John Adams, is an arrangement of Sullivan's tune. The hymn's tune has also been used as the basis for many parodies, including ""Lloyd George Knew My Father"" and ""Like a mighty tortoise, / Moves the Church of God; / Brothers, we are treading / Where we've always trod."" Onward, Christian Soldiers ""Onward, Christian Soldiers"" is"
"of Gilbert and Sullivan. It began performing in church halls and a high school. In 1982, it moved to the Trinity Theatre in Georgetown, Washington. In 1987, it transferred to the Duke Ellington Theatre at the Duke Ellington School for the Arts, also in Georgetown, which served as its home for ten years. By 2003, the company decided to expand its repertoire beyond the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, to produce at least three shows a year, and to find a new theatre. The first non-Gilbert and Sullivan piece produced by the company was Jacques Offenbach's ""La Périchole"", during the"
"music. Sullivan had written some 20 operas, including fourteen comic operas with W. S. Gilbert, and a large volume of songs, orchestral pieces and other music. Although he was in the middle of composing his next opera, ""The Rose of Persia"" (which was to be his last completed opera), Sullivan agreed. Both Kipling and Sullivan declined proffered fees for creating the song. Artist Richard Caton Woodville, within several days, provided an illustration, titled ""A Gentleman in Kharki"", showing a wounded but defiant British Tommy in battle. This illustration was included in ""art editions"" of the poem and song. In 1897,"
"(1987); Seymour in ""Little Shop of Horrors"" (1987); Vernon Gersch in ""They're Playing Our Song"" (1988); Benny in ""The Desert Song"" at North Shore Music Theatre (1988). Cantor has performed principal roles in all of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas in the U.S., Great Britain, and Italy. Cantor appeared in the films ""Prince of the City"" (1981), ""So Fine"" (1981), ""The Chosen"" (1981) and ""Working Girl"" (1988). In the early 1980s, he played a number of television soap opera roles in ""All My Children"", ""Loving"", ""Another World"", and ""Ryan's Hope"". Cantor owns and operates SmartStaff Personnel, a staffing and"
"two, such as the 2009 book, ""The Fabulous Feud of Gilbert & Sullivan"". P. G. Wodehouse makes dozens of references to Gilbert and Sullivan in his works. Wodehouse sometimes referred to Gilbert at length, and he based his Psmith character on Rupert D'Oyly Carte or his brother. Wodehouse also parodied G&S songs. In Jerome K Jerome's ""Three Men in a Boat"" (1889), a description is given of Harris's attempts to sing a comic song: ""the Judge's song out of ""Pinafore"" – no, I don't mean ""Pinafore"" – I mean – you know what I mean – the other thing, you"
"robot, while in a state similar to drunkenness, sings snippets of Gilbert and Sullivan songs, including ""The Nightmare Song"" from ""Iolanthe"". In Michael Chabon's 2004 novel ""The Final Solution"", Bruno the parrot sings bits from ""Iolanthe"". The eponymous hero of David Nobbs' ""The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"" has ""Iolanthe"" as a middle name, allegedly due to his being born during a performance of the opera. An illustrated booklet, ""A Parody on Iolanthe"", was written and published by D. Dalziel in 1883 and concerns the Chicago & Alton Railway. In his 1974 album Todd, Todd Rundgren performs the ""Lord"
"from the French, ""Committed for Trial"", another adaptation from the French called ""The Blue-Legged Lady"", and ""Topsyturveydom"", a comic opera. He also wrote a Bab-illustrated story called ""The Story of a Twelfth Cake"" for the ""Graphic"" Christmas number. A drawing room ballad of the same name was created in 1875 to help advertise the play, based on the story-line of the play, with music by the composer who would go on to become Gilbert's most famous collaborator, Arthur Sullivan. It is one of only three Gilbert and Sullivan songs that were not part of a larger work. Act I –"
"and Kate Jackson are a happy G&S-loving couple until he leaves her for another man (Harry Hamlin). Gilbert and Sullivan, and songs from the operas, have been included in numerous TV series, including ""The Simpsons"" in several episodes, including ""Cape Feare"", ""Deep Space Homer"", and ""Bart's Inner Child""; numerous ""Frasier"" episodes; ""Kavanagh QC"", in the episode ""Briefs Trooping Gaily"", ""Angel"" in the fifth season episode ""Conviction"", where Charles Gunn becomes a good lawyer, and learns a lot of G&S, because it's ""great for elocution""; numerous references in Animaniacs; the episode ""The Cold Open"" (1x02) of ""Studio 60 on the Sunset"
"is the most recent of Gilbert's works for the musical stage; that project had a workshop production in 2013 at Drexel University in Philadelphia under the direction of Bill Fennelly. Other musicals include A Tiny Miracle, Watch The Birdie, Realities, Goosefeathers and A Is For Anything. His 1979 musical Assassins was the sources of the idea for the Stephen Sondheim/John Weidman musical of the same name, revived on Broadway in 2004 to acclaim that included seven Tony awards. Gilbert's musical revue Watch The Birdie received a production by Philly Music Theater Works at the Walnut Street Theater in Philadelphia in"
"Sausages"" (2011). In ""Meet Mr Mulliner"" by P. G. Wodehouse, the title hero sings a fragment from Dr Daly's ballad and characterises his nephew as ""the sort of young curate who seems to have been so common in the 'eighties, or whenever it was that Gilbert wrote The Sorcerer."" It has also been referenced in popular TV series, such as in the ""Family Guy"" episode ""Patriot Games"", where characters sing the song ""If you'll marry me"" from Act II. The Sorcerer The Sorcerer is a two-act comic opera, with a libretto by W. S. Gilbert and music by Arthur Sullivan."
"Tread"" (""Pirates""), ""The Soldiers of Our Queen"" (""Patience""), and ""There Lived a King"" (""The Gondoliers""). In ""The Girl Said No"" (1937), which uses songs from the operas, a dance hall girl is forced to join a Gilbert and Sullivan troupe. In ""The Naughty Victorians"", an X-rated film subtitled ""A Man with a Maid"", the entire score is G&S music, and many musical puns are made, with the G&S music underlining the dialogue appropriately for those familiar with G&S. In ""The White Countess"" (2005), the overture to ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" is used in the soundtrack. In other films, characters sing songs from"
"Major-General's Song ""I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General"" (often referred to as the ""Major-General's Song"" or ""Modern Major-General's Song"") is a patter song from Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera ""The Pirates of Penzance"". It is perhaps the most famous song in Gilbert and Sullivan's operas. Sung by Major General Stanley at his first entrance, towards the end of Act I, the character introduces himself by presenting his résumé and admitting to a few shortcomings. The song satirises the idea of the ""modern"" educated British Army officer of the latter 19th century. It is difficult to perform"
"Jerome and Donna English. Subsequent productions followed. This is not the only show about the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership. A 1938 Broadway show, ""Knights of Song"", tells the story of the partnership, as do the musicals ""The Savoyards"", by Donald Madgwick (1971) and ""Tarantara Tarantara"", by Ian Taylor (1975), and the films ""The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan"" (1951) and ""Topsy-Turvy"" (1999). In December 1890, near the end of their collaboration, and still estranged by their famous carpet quarrel, W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan have neither seen nor spoken with each other in months. Now they must supervise"
"Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration and introduced the much-parodied ""Major-General's Song"". The opera was performed for over a century by the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Britain and by many other opera companies and repertory companies worldwide. Modernized productions include Joseph Papp's 1981 Broadway production, which ran for 787 performances, winning the Tony Award for Best Revival and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical, and spawning many imitations and a 1983 film adaptation. ""Pirates"" remains popular today, taking its place along with ""The Mikado"" and ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" as one of the most frequently played Gilbert and Sullivan operas. ""The Pirates"
"is in love with another man. ""The Gondoliers"" was Gilbert and Sullivan's last great success. In this opera, Gilbert returns to the satire of class distinctions figuring in many of his earlier librettos. The libretto also reflects Gilbert's fascination with the ""Stock Company Act"", highlighting the absurd convergence of natural persons and legal entities, which plays an even larger part in the next opera, ""Utopia Limited"". As in several of their earlier operas, by setting the work comfortably far away from England, Gilbert was emboldened to direct sharper criticism at the nobility and the institution of the monarchy itself. ""The"
"was Gilbert and Sullivan's most successful work, ""The Mikado"" (1885). The piece ran for 672 performances, which was the second-longest run for any work of musical theatre, and one of the longest runs of any theatre piece, up to that time. In 1886 Sullivan composed his second and last large-scale choral work of the decade. It was a cantata for the Leeds Festival, ""The Golden Legend"", based on Longfellow's poem of the same name. Apart from the comic operas, this proved to be Sullivan's best received full-length work. It was given hundreds of performances during his lifetime, and at one"
"and the oratorio ""The Light of the World"" (Birmingham Festival, 1873). He provided incidental music for productions of ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" at the Gaiety in 1874 and ""Henry VIII"" at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, in 1877. He continued to compose hymns throughout the decade. In 1873 Sullivan contributed songs to Burnand's Christmas ""drawing room extravaganza"", ""The Miller and His Man"". In 1875 the manager of the Royalty Theatre, Richard D'Oyly Carte, needed a short piece to fill out a bill with Offenbach's ""La Périchole"". Carte had conducted Sullivan's ""Cox and Box"". Remembering that Gilbert had suggested a libretto"
"The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan is a 1953 British technicolor film that dramatises the story of the collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert and Sullivan wrote 14 comic operas, later referred to as the Savoy Operas, which became the most popular series of musical entertainments of the Victorian era and are still popular today. The film was written by Leslie Baily, Sidney Gilliat and Vincent Korda, based on Baily's ""The Gilbert and Sullivan Book"". It was directed by Sidney Gilliat, with cinematography by Christopher Challis and production design by Hein"
"the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Al Goodman and Groucho Marx also released Gilbert and Sullivan recordings. The operas are referred to in other popular media, including video games. For example, in """", a casino is called ""Pirates in Men’s Pants"", a crude play on ""Pirates of Penzance"". The 1970s popular music singer Gilbert O'Sullivan adopted his stage name as a pun on ""Gilbert and Sullivan"" when his manager suggested that it would be good marketing. In the 1950s, the British radio show ""Take It From Here"" featured parodies of Gilbert and Sullivan songs with lyrics about the buses in London."
"a 1966 episode. In the UK series ""Lilies"", in the 2007 episode ""The Tallyman"" both ""When I Was a Lad"" and ""The Sun Whose Rays"" are heard. An episode of ""Car 54, Where Are You?"" has parodies of several G&S songs. In 1988, episodes of Australian soap opera ""Home and Away"" featured a school production of ""The Mikado"". A second-season (1998) episode of the TV show ""Millennium"" titled ""The Mikado"" is based on the Zodiac case. Gilbert and Sullivan references often appear in ""The West Wing"". Some incidents include an episode-long argument over whether ""He is an Englishman"" is from"
"the performance, however, news arrives of Sullivan's death. Some years later, Gilbert is finally knighted. The following additional singing voices were heard on the soundtrack: Elsie Morison, Marjorie Thomas, Owen Brannigan, Harold Williams, Muriel Brunskill, John Cameron and Jennifer Vyvyan. The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan is a 1953 British technicolor film that dramatises the story of the collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Gilbert and Sullivan wrote 14 comic operas, later referred to as the Savoy Operas, which became the most popular series of musical entertainments of the Victorian era and"
"firmly and finally into the world of the musical"" stage and confirmed, after his previous success with ""Cox and Box"" and ""Thespis"", that ""Sullivan was a composer of light lyric and comic music who could rival Offenbach, Lecocq and any English musician alive."" Sullivan used the opportunities suggested by Gilbert's satire of the pomp and ceremony of the law to provide a variety of musical jokes. ""From the first chords ... Sullivan's music sets the scene of mock-seriousness... His ... humorous use of the orchestra runs throughout"". For example, counterpointing the plaintiff's calculated swooning in ""That she is reeling is"
"life, in contrast to the foolishness of the surrounding scenes. Like both of the tenor's arias in ""Trial by Jury"", tenor arias in later Savoy operas were set in 6/8 time so frequently that Anna Russell, in her 1953 parody, ""How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera"", exclaimed, ""the tenor ... according to tradition, ""must"" sing an aria in 6/8 time, usually accompanying himself on a stringed instrument"". In ""Trial by Jury"" hypocrisy is revealed as the characters' motivations are held up to satire, and Gilbert mocks the underlying absurdity of the judicial procedures. As Gilbert scholar Andrew"
"couple that wants to save money, but still listen to musicals, finds a roommate, dressed as the Major General, who awkwardly begins the song while dancing on a coffee table. Similarly, Martyn Green sang a pastiche of the song listing all of the varieties of Campbell's Soup. Another prominent example is the elaborate illustrated book, called ""My Goodness! My Gilbert and Sullivan!"" of parodies of Gilbert's lyrics advertising Guinness stout. The likenesses (often in costume) of, or endorsements by, numerous Gilbert and Sullivan performers were used in advertising throughout the decades. Trading cards were also created, using images from some"
"finale in his patchwork of stylistic creations ""Clementine"" (""full of words and music and signifying nothing"", as Lehrer put it, thus parodying G&S and Shakespeare in the same sentence). Comedian Allan Sherman sang several parodies and pastiches of Gilbert and Sullivan songs in the 1960s, including: Anna Russell performed a parody called ""How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera."" The Two Ronnies' Gilbert and Sullivan parodies include their 1973 Christmas special. In addition, numerous G&S song parodies and other references to G&S are made in the animated TV series, ""Animaniacs"", such as the ""HMS Yakko"" episode, which includes"