"by the mysterious Boss, and is well known for his clown garb, distinctive noir-pastiche speech patterns, high perversity, and un-judicial drinking habits (particularly Jack Daniel's). The strip name ""The Simping Detective"" comes from Point's habit of wearing clown accoutrements like a rubber nose and bow tie – in the fictional universe of ""Judge Dredd"", ""simping"" is slang for dressing like a fool or simpleton. It is also a play on The Singing Detective. The name 'Jack Point' itself comes from the character of the same name from the Gilbert and Sullivan opera ""The Yeomen of the Guard"", who is a"
"performing the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. Founded in 1901, and still extant, Savoy's performing membership of dedicated amateurs was formed from Philadelphia society's ""blue bloods"" and Social Register-types. Evans again performed with Savoy on May 13 and 14, 1932 as Jack Point in Gilbert and Sullivan's ""The Yeomen of the Guard,"" also at Philadelphia's Academy of Music. Evans attributed his success in this difficult role to director Pacie Ripple who performed in D'Oyly Carte productions directed by Gilbert and Sullivan themselves. Evans teamed with long-time Savoy member John Steele Williams as Shadbolt for the show's hilarious comic duet which"
"began to play Ko-Ko in ""The Mikado"", Major-General Stanley in ""The Pirates of Penzance"", Sir Joseph Porter in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"", and Jack Point the jester in ""The Yeomen of the Guard"", which became his favourite role. Unlike Grossmith, who gave the opera a comic ending, Lytton's Jack Point, following the example of George Thorne (another D'Oyly Carte touring artist), died of a broken heart at the end. Carte and Gilbert blessed the departure from Grossmith's interpretation. In subsequent years, he portrayed these and the other principal comic Gilbert and Sullivan roles played by the D'Oyly Carte touring companies in which"
"Jury"". Later in his career he played in the first performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Jack Point in ""The Yeomen of the Guard"" when Welsh National Opera included the work in their London season there in 1995. He played several roles in the Savoy operas with the revived D'Oyly Carte Opera Company beginning in 1988, and also in their ""Orpheus in the Underworld"" (1994) and ""La Vie parisienne"" (1995) by Jacques Offenbach. Of his 1998 performances in ""The Pirates of Penzance"" for D'Oyly Carte, ""The Guardian"" wrote, ""Richard Suart, a"
"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 finally recognises him as her adored one. All once again erupt into joy, except the broken-hearted Jack Point. Tearfully, he reprises the song that he had earlier sung with Elsie, ""The Merryman and his Maid"", with wrenching sorrow. Elsie ""drops a tear"" for Point, but turns back to her love. As the chorus turns away to celebrate the marriage of Fairfax and Elsie, Point falls insensible at their feet. Like most of the Savoy Operas, ""Yeomen"" went through significant cuts and alterations during rehearsal, and after the authors' deaths further changes have become traditional. Much of the cut music"
"For 48 gruelling weeks of each of those 20 years he effortlessly negotiated the tongue-twisting patter songs."" The latter paper judged Reed a success in his desire to play pathos: ""His Jack Point, the lovelorn jester in ""The Yeomen of the Guard"", and the role which he dubbed 'the one apart, the Hamlet of Gilbert and Sullivan', could easily bring a tear to the eye, as did his spoken rendition of 'Iolanthe, thou livest?'"" Of his Ko-Ko, ""The Times"" stated, ""The brightest performance of the evening comes from Mr. John Reed, a spirited Ko-Ko with exactly the right stature and"
"(Alexander Goehr, 1974). During this period Cameron pursued a parallel career in concert and on record. He was a favourite soloist of Sir Malcolm Sargent, with whom he appeared in recordings of works including Mendelssohn's ""Elijah"" (1957), Elgar's ""The Dream of Gerontius"" (1958), John Gay's ""The Beggar's Opera"" (1955), also recording the latter work under Richard Austin for Argo, and, between 1957 and 1962, eight Gilbert and Sullivan operas (""Trial by Jury"", ""H.M.S. Pinafore"", ""The Pirates of Penzance"", ""Patience"", ""Iolanthe"", ""The Mikado"", ""The Yeomen of the Guard"" and ""The Gondoliers""). Cameron played the role of Jack Point in ""The Yeomen"
"Williamson Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Company. In 1975, during the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company's centennial season, Dean was invited to participate in the final performance of ""Trial by Jury"", in which the company's regular chorus was augmented by fourteen former stars of the company. Dean died in Thornton-le-Dale, Yorkshire. He was known, among his D'Oyly Carte colleagues, as a good storyteller. John Dean (tenor) John Dean (September 2, 1897 – March 20, 1990) was an English singer and actor, best known for his performances in the tenor roles of the Savoy Operas with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. John Dean"
"Grahame Clifford ""For the film editor with a similar name, see Graeme Clifford."" Grahame Clifford (25 December 1905 – 26 January 1984), was an English singer and actor, known for comic parts in the Gilbert and Sullivan operas and in character roles for the Royal Opera Company, Covent Garden. In his early career Clifford played a wide range of roles in operas by composers from Handel to Vaughan Williams. He also acted in plays, produced theatre and taught. From 1939 to 1946 he was principal comedian of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company playing the comic leads in Gilbert and Sullivan's"
"Brighton on 24 January 2011. Fryatt's opera recordings were: Fryatt also recorded the tenor part in Stravinsky's ""Pulcinella"" ballet, conducted by Simon Rattle (1978). Several of Fryatt's opera productions were televised. His performances on television include the following: John Fryatt John James Fryatt (7 July 1927 – 7 January 2011) was an English actor and opera singer best known for his performance in comic character roles. Fryatt began his career with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1952 in Gilbert and Sullivan roles, then Sadler's Wells Opera in 1959, becoming popular in tenor character roles in Offenbach operettas. His international"
"John Reed (actor) John Lamb Reed, OBE (13 February 1916 – 13 February 2010) was an English actor, dancer and singer, known for his nimble performances in the principal comic roles of the Savoy Operas, particularly with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Reed has been called ""the last great exponent"" of the Gilbert and Sullivan comedy roles. The son of a butcher from County Durham, Reed began performing at the end of World War II, joining the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in 1951. After eight years as understudy to Peter Pratt, he became the principal comedian of the company in"
"Penzance"", and so on. Similarly, Mrs. Partlet in ""The Sorcerer"" transformed into Little Buttercup in ""Pinafore"", then into Ruth, the piratical maid-of-all-work in ""Pirates"". Relatively unknown performers whom Gilbert and Sullivan engaged early in the collaboration would stay with the company for many years, becoming stars of the Victorian stage. These included George Grossmith, the principal comic; Rutland Barrington, the lyric baritone; Richard Temple, the bass-baritone; and Jessie Bond, the mezzo-soprano soubrette. ""The Pirates of Penzance"" (New Year's Eve, 1879) also poked fun at grand opera conventions, sense of duty, family obligation, the ""respectability"" of civilisation and the peerage, and"
"and Sullivan operas are mentioned in several episodes, especially by Deputy Communications Director, Sam Seaborn, who was recording secretary of his school's Gilbert and Sullivan society. In ""Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip"", a poster from ""Pirates"" hangs on Matt Albie's office wall. Both TV series were created by Aaron Sorkin. In the pilot episode of the 2008 CBS series ""Flashpoint"", a police officer and his partner sing the policeman's song. In an ""Assy McGee"" episode entitled ""Pegfinger"", Detective Sanchez's wife is a member of a community theatre that performs the opera. In a 1986 episode of the animated television"
"both actresses: Their home was 26 Canterbury Road, St Kilda, Victoria. Mrs. Ralston later lived with daughter Edna at ""Surrey Court"", 137 Ormond Road, Elwood, Victoria. Gilbert and Sullivan Australian compositions John Ralston (baritone) John Morgan Ralston (ca.1882 – 17 April 1933) was an Australian baritone (or perhaps bass-baritone) singer noted for his work in musical comedies and Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Ralston was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the second son of J Ralston. He began singing as a boy soprano at St. Mary's (Anglican) Church, Kangaroo Point, Brisbane in 1894 He began acting with Pollard’s Lilliputian Opera Company, led"
"Clarence M. Leumane Clarence M. ""Jack"" Leumane (died 23 February 1928) was an English-born singer, actor, songwriter and librettist. He played leading tenor roles in opera, especially the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, in the 1880s, first in Britain and then Australia. He was also a librettist and writer of the song '""The Lambton Worm"" in 1867. Leumane was born in England, possibly in the Sunderland area, as the words of the song ""The Lambton Worm"" are from the Mackem dialect. As an actor, in the autumn of 1881, he created the role of Captain Harleigh in ""Claude Duval"","
"several more Savoy Operas. These began with the role of Jack in the short-lived ""Jane Annie"", which opened in May 1893. In his 1908 memoir, Rutland Barrington tells the following story about Fishe: In October 1893, Fishe created the part of Mr. Goldbury in Gilbert and Sullivan's ""Utopia, Limited"", and in July 1894 he created the role of Gerard de Montigny in ""Mirette"", resuming this role when the revised version opened in October. In December 1894 he created the role of Ferdinand de Roxas in Burnand and Sullivan's ""The Chieftain"". In April 1895 Fishe joined a D'Oyly Carte touring company,"
"Players, Charles Court Opera, and the festival's own National Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company. In 1995, the operators of the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival formed an opera company to provide festivalgoers with professional productions of the Savoy operas. The company was soon called the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company. It engaged such performers as Richard Suart, Simon Butteriss, Bruce Graham, Gillian Knight, Barry Clark, Michael Rayner, Jill Pert, Gareth Jones, Patricia Leonard, Donald Maxwell, Oliver White, Rebecca Bottone, Ian Belsey and the Opera Babes. John Owen Edwards, David Russell Hulme, David Steadman or Andrew Nicklin have usually served as"
"Gilbert and Sullivan cut two songs from Act I and part of the Act I finale, partly to decrease the number of sentimental pieces near the beginning of the opera. Gilbert, always nervous himself on opening nights, came backstage before the performance on opening night to ""have a word"" with some of the actors, inadvertently conveying his worries to the cast and making them even more nervous. Jessie Bond, who was to open the show with a solo song alone on stage, finally said to him, ""For Heaven's sake, Mr. Gilbert, go away and leave me alone, or I shan't"
"season, appearing only as Nanki-Poo in ""The Mikado"". He then continued to perform occasionally, appearing, for example, as Lord Tolloller with the Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company in 2001 at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival, where he also occasionally gave master classes or participated in coachings and lectures for many years. Potter died in 2016 at the age of 80. With the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and Decca Records, he recorded the Duke of Dunstable (1961), Colonel Fairfax (1964), Hilarion (1964), Nanki-Poo in ""A Gilbert & Sullivan Spectacular"" (1965) (excerpts), and Frederic (1968), as well as ""Songs and Snatches"""
"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"
"to make it to the theatre to conduct. He goes on a holiday to Continental Europe hoping that the rest will improve his health. While he is away, ticket sales and audiences at the Savoy Theatre wilt in the hot summer weather. Producer Richard D'Oyly Carte (Ron Cook) has called on Sullivan and the playwright W. S. Gilbert (Jim Broadbent) to create a new piece for the Savoy, but it is not ready when ""Ida"" closes. Until a new piece can be prepared, Carte revives an earlier Gilbert and Sullivan work, ""The Sorcerer"". Gilbert's idea for their next opera features"
"Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Victoria (now known as Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Victoria). Amateur groups in Britain produced the piece regularly through the 1920s and occasionally thereafter. A concert of the opera was performed by Valley Light Opera in Amherst, Massachusetts on 8 March 2008 with a narration written by Jonathan Strong. This was the first known U.S. performance of the opera with full orchestra since 1902. For much of the 1890s, impresario Richard D'Oyly Carte and his wife Helen Carte had struggled to find successful shows to fill the Savoy. They finally found a winning formula in ""The"
"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"
"distinguishing and popular features of Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Following Italian opera precedents, such as ""Largo al factotum"" from ""The Barber of Seville"", these numbers juxtapose virtuosity in their speed of delivery (requiring clarity of elocution) with their often comic or satiric lyrics. In ""My name is John Wellington Wells"", the title character of ""The Sorcerer"" introduces himself as a tradesman of an ironic kind: ""a dealer in magic and spells"". Another typical Sullivanian musical technique is the contrapuntal combination of slow and rapid tunes in one song and a tenor aria set in 6/8 time. Sullivan did this so"
"inches high or round—and his incomparable power of rapid speech and singing."" ""The Daily Telegraph"" wrote of his Jack Point: ""Whether giving expression to poor Jack’s professional wit, or hiding a sorry heart behind light words... Mr Grossmith was master of the part he assumed."" In 1883, ""The Times"", reviewing a matinee performance of ""Iolanthe"", wrote: ""Mr. Grossmith's impersonation of the Lord Chancellor has ... become an exquisitely refined satire."" On the other hand, his sketch comedy background had trained Grossmith to improvise comic business. Gilbert and the actor had a famous exchange during rehearsals for ""The Mikado"" about an"
"intends her to marry Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. She abides by her father's wishes at first, but Sir Joseph's advocacy of the equality of humankind encourages Ralph and Josephine to overturn conventional social order. They declare their love for each other and eventually plan to elope. The captain discovers this plan, but, as in many of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas, a surprise disclosure changes things dramatically near the end of the story. Drawing on several of his earlier ""Bab Ballad"" poems, Gilbert imbued this plot with mirth and silliness. The opera's humour focuses on"
"in the Country"" at the Cambridge Theatre in London. He was a member of the BBC Drama Repertory Company in the early 1960s. In 1966, BBC Radio presented a complete cycle of the thirteen extant Gilbert and Sullivan operas, with dialogue, with Pratt starring in ten of them and working behind the scenes as co-producer. His love of Gilbert and Sullivan continued during his later career, and he frequently turned to their operas for inspiration. As a writer, narrator, and performer he presented a television play called ""Jack Point"" (1973), and radio programmes such as ""Afternoon at the Savoy"", ""Evening"
"made other minor changes in the score. The ""Matter Patter"" trio from ""Ruddigore"" and ""Sorry her lot"" from ""H.M.S. Pinafore"", two other Gilbert and Sullivan operas, were interpolated into the show. The production also restored Gilbert and Sullivan's original New York ending, with a reprise of the Major-General's song in the Act II finale. Linda Ronstadt starred as Mabel, Rex Smith as Frederic, Kevin Kline as the Pirate King, Patricia Routledge as Ruth (replaced by Estelle Parsons for the Broadway transfer), George Rose as the Major-General, and Tony Azito as the Sergeant of Police. Kline won a Tony Award for"
"to manage, and their producer, Richard D'Oyly Carte, micromanaging everything, the two men have much to argue about. But their admiration for each other as collaborators and friends triumphs. 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"
"a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, such as in the film ""The Girl Said No"". There are also a number of Gilbert and Sullivan biographical films, such as Mike Leigh's ""Topsy-Turvy"" (2000) and ""The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan"" (1953), as well as shows about the partnership, including a 1938 Broadway show, ""Knights of Song"" and a 1975 West End show called ""Tarantara! Tarantara!"" It is not surprising, given the focus of Gilbert on politics, that politicians and political observers have often found inspiration in these works. Chief Justice of the United States William Rehnquist added gold stripes to his judicial"
"Jack Point Jack Point, also called ""the Simping Detective"", is a character in the British comic anthology ""Judge Dredd Megazine"", a spin-off from ""2000 AD"". He was created by Simon Spurrier and Frazer Irving. He was originally a Mega-City One Street Judge but took to working undercover (""Wally Squad""), pretending to be a private investigator: his cover story is that he was dismissed as a Judge for excessive use of force. As part of his disguise he pretends to be a simp (see below). He works in Sector 13, known as Angeltown, a notoriously corrupt sector of Mega-City One run"
"hit by Gilbert and Sullivan. It was the first work to premiere at the Savoy (although ""Patience"" had transferred to the theatre in 1881) and was the first new theatre production in the world to be illuminated entirely with electric lights, permitting some special effects that had not been possible in the era of gas lighting. The opera opened simultaneously in New York, and touring companies were sent around the UK and US to play the piece. The first Australasian touring production followed in 1885, and the opera was revived in London beginning in 1901. The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company"