"""On a tree by a river a little tom-tit sang 'Willow, titwillow, titwillow!"" is the opening of a song from which work by Gilbert and Sullivan?"
"""Topsy-Turvy"" (1999) is an award-winning film depiction of the team and the creation of their most popular opera, ""The Mikado"". Another G&S film is the 1953 ""The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan"" (or ""The Great Gilbert and Sullivan"" in the U.S.), starring Robert Morley as Gilbert and Maurice Evans as Sullivan, with Martyn Green as George Grossmith. In a short 1950 film called ""The Return of Gilbert and Sullivan"", Gilbert and Sullivan return to Earth to protest the jazz treatment of their work. In the 1951 film ""The Magic Box"" Sir Arthur Sullivan, played by the film conductor, Muir Mathieson,"
"In Translation,"" and ""The Animaniacs Vol. 1"" episode ""Hello Nice Warners"". The Capitol Steps performed a parody titled ""Three Little Kurds from School Are We"". On the ""Dinah Shore Show"", Shore sang the song with Joan Sutherland and Ella Fitzgerald in 1963. References to ""Tit-Willow"" (""On a tree by a river"") have included Allan Sherman's comedy song, ""The Bronx Bird Watcher"", about a Yiddish-accented bird whose beautiful singing leads to a sad end. On ""The Dick Cavett Show"", Groucho Marx and Cavett sang the song. Groucho interrupted the song to quiz the audience on the meaning of the word ""obdurate""."
"by Warnick and Walker—""Big Old River,"" ""Stand Around the Bend,"" ""Old Love and Brand New Love,"" and ""Growing Pains""—written in a pastiche of existing styles. (In the show billing, Walker was credited with the new music, and Warnick and Walker shared credit for the new lyrics.) ""Growing Pains,"" an original duet for Robinson and 8-year-old actor Timothy Grace, was strongly flavored by a Duke Ellington sound, while the Gilbert and Sullivan material was arranged as swing music with a boogie-woogie edge. Robinson interpolated his specialty, a dance on stairs, as a high point of the show. Avon Long, known for"
"""Tit Willow"" by Gilbert and Sullivan. ""Golfing Love"" by Melville Gideon accompanies the footage featuring golfers at Moor Park, and while the paintings in the Moor Park clubhouse are shown, Handel's ""Double Concerti"" plays. ""Build a Little Home"" is played again during part of the sequence at Chorleywood. The sequence featuring Len Rawle and his Wurlitzer is accompanied by the works: ""Crimond"", ""Varsity Rag"", and ""Chattanooga Choo Choo"". Finally, during part of the sequence showing High and Over, ""Everything I Own"" by Bread is heard. The section that features people working in Harrow is accompanied by ""Family Favourites"" by Rod"
"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"
"right, parodies the song title, ""The Flowers that Bloom in the Spring, tra la!"" changing the word ""bloom"" to ""kill"". References to ""Three Little Maids"": References to ""Tit-Willow"" (""On a tree by a river""): Allan Sherman's parody is described above. In one of his appearances on ""The Dick Cavett Show"", Groucho Marx and Cavett sang the song. Groucho interrupted at the line ""...and if you remain callous and obdurate, I shall perish as he did..."" to quiz the audience on the meaning of the word ""obdurate"". The song is featured in the 2003 TV movie ""And Starring Pancho Villa as"
"sing several lines from ""Tit-Willow"", before he departs with the intention of dying in a gunfight instead of from cancer. References to the ""Little List"" song: Sherman also did a variant on the song, described above. In a ""Eureeka's Castle"" Christmas special called ""Just Put it on the List,"" the twins, Bogg and Quagmire, describe what they'd like for Christmas to the tune of the song. Richard Suart and A.S.H. Smyth released a book in 2008 called ""They’d None of 'em Be Missed,"" with 20 years of little list parodies by Suart, the English National Opera's usual Ko-Ko. In the"
"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 –"
"next to Richardson's office. Soon, at a nearby fundraising event for another of their cultural projects, Bel Canto Chorus, two church musicians, Jim Keeley and Ray Smith, gave an impromptu performance of Gilbert and Sullivan songs. Vonier and Richardson asked them to put on a show in their empty space above the coffeehouse. The theatre opened with a holiday puppet show. Next, Keeley and Smith starred in a 13-week run of a revue, ""An Evening with Gilbert and Sullivan"" that was a surprise hit. More revues and a variety of shows followed. In June 1960, the little theatre produced a"
"given in Worcester Cathedral as part of the 1869 Three Choirs Festival to much praise. Sullivan's most enduring orchestral work, the ""Overture di Ballo"", was composed for the Birmingham Festival in 1870. The same year, Sullivan first met the poet and dramatist W. S. Gilbert. In 1871 Sullivan published his only song cycle, ""The Window"", to words by Tennyson, and he wrote the first of a series of incidental music scores for productions of Shakespeare plays. He also composed a dramatic cantata, ""On Shore and Sea"", for the opening of the London International Exhibition, and the hymn ""Onward, Christian Soldiers"","
"of Twain's semi-autobiographical novel ""Life on the Mississippi"". River Song (Sherman) ""River Song"" is a song composed by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman in 1973. It was sung by Charley Pride in the musical motion picture ""Tom Sawyer"". The song score received a Christopher Award and a nomination for an Academy Award. The song's placement as a ""bookend"" piece to the motion picture was largely due to the Sherman Brothers' deep involvement with the film, including screenwriters as well as songwriters. The song is featured on the popular music LP, ""The Brady Bunch Phonographic Album"" which features a"
"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"
"We’re Goin’ Fishin’, and they exit with a victorious Tom singing along with them. Twain explains that his joyous boyhood was over when his father died and he had to make a living. After a period as a printer’s apprentice, he ran away to become a pilot on the Mississippi River. We see the young Mark Twain, known then as Samuel Langhorne Clemens, express his excitement at the prospect of his life on a steamboat as he sings A Pilot on the Mississippi. The Civil War brought an abrupt end to Twain’s career on the river, and for a brief"
"""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"
"a song, ""When a Piece of Toast Climbs Your Bedpost with a Cigar."" When Atwell began working on Broadway, he had a role in which he was to deliver the following line: ""It is spring and all the little birds are twittering in the tree tops."" Being new and somewhat on edge, what Atwell actually did say was: ""Tis ting and the twits are birdering in the tree flops."" Atwell fully expected to be fired, but the misdelivered line drew a big laugh from the audience and he was asked to repeat it the next night. His unwitting comedic success"
"Gilbert made every effort to accommodate his collaborator, even writing alternative lyrics to some songs. Sullivan had trouble setting one lyric in particular, ""I have a song to sing-O!"", with its increasing length in each stanza. He asked Gilbert if he had anything in mind when writing it. Gilbert hummed a few lines from a sea shanty, and Sullivan knew what to do. The first act was rather long and contained an unusual number of sentimental pieces. As opening night approached, Gilbert became increasingly apprehensive. Would the audience accept this serious, sentimental tone from one of the duo's ""comic"" operas?"
"Carolyn Williams has noted, however: ""The influence of Gilbert and Sullivan – their wit and sense of irony, the send ups of politics and contemporary culture – goes beyond musical theater to comedy in general. Allusions to their work have made their way into our own popular culture"". Gilbert and Sullivan expert and enthusiast Ian Bradley agrees: The works of Gilbert and Sullivan are themselves frequently pastiched and parodied. Well known examples of this include Tom Lehrer's ""The Elements"" and ""Clementine""; Allan Sherman's ""I'm Called Little Butterball"", ""When I Was a Lad"", ""You Need an Analyst"" and ""The Bronx Bird-Watcher"";"
"Threads Among the Gold,"" ""Frankie And Johnny"" and ""The Yellow Rose Of Texas"". On the radio the Iversons would even sing current hits like ""When It's Lamp Lighting Time In The Valley"" and ""Mockin' Bird Hill"". A program might also have ""Play a Simple Melody"" by Irving Berlin or the romantic ""The West, A Nest And You."" Slim Jim sided with the working man, and his first songbook included an adaptation of ""The Popular Wobbly"" by the Finnish-American labor activist T-Bone Slim. ""The Popular Wobbly"" was a parody of the 1917 song ""They Go Wild Simply Wild Over Me."" In"
"Utopia, Limited Utopia, Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress, is a Savoy opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was the second-to-last of Gilbert and Sullivan's fourteen collaborations, premiering on 7 October 1893 for a run of 245 performances. It did not achieve the success of most of their earlier productions. Gilbert's libretto satirises limited liability companies, and particularly the idea that a bankrupt company could leave creditors unpaid without any liability on the part of its owners. It also lampoons the Joint Stock Company Act by imagining the absurd convergence of natural persons"
"a query, when will novelties begin?"" Gilbert had collaborated on an earlier pantomime, ""Hush-a-Bye, Baby, on the Tree Top"", in 1866. Immediately following his production of ""Harlequin Cock Robin"", Gilbert published an article called ""Getting Up a Pantomime"". His 1875 opera with Arthur Sullivan, ""Trial by Jury"", included a pantomime-style transformation scene (especially prominent in the 1884 version), and he collaborated on ""The Forty Thieves"", a pantomime written as a charity fund-raiser in 1878, in which he played Harlequin. His last full-length play, ""The Fairy's Dilemma"" (1904), drew heavily on (and satirised) pantomimic conventions. But ""Harlequin Cock Robin"" was Gilbert's"
"from ""Tom Cobb"" reappear in Gilbert and Sullivan's last opera, ""The Grand Duke"" (1896). This full-length romantic farce was a departure by Gilbert from his earlier farces, which had generally been short works in one act. Gilbert claimed, in a 1903 story article called ""My Last Client"", that the idea for the play came to him when he attended the funeral of ""T. W. Robertson"" in 1871 and a man in the crowd reminded him of Robertson. However, Gilbert based ""Tom Cobb"" on a short story that he had written in 1871 called ""Tom Poulton's Joke"", in which the title"
"of the original manuscript, included in ""Singer of the Bush"", a collection of Paterson's works published by Lansdowne Press in 1983, the first two verses appear as follows: <poem style=""margin-left: 2em;"">Oh there once was a swagman camped in the billabong, Under the shade of a Coolibah tree, And he sang as he looked at the old billy boiling, Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me? ""Chorus:"" Who'll come a waltzin' Matilda my darling, Who'll come a waltzin' Matilda with me? Waltzing Matilda and leading a water bag, Who'll come a waltzing Matilda with me? Down came a jumbuck to drink"
"The Celtic Song ""The Celtic Song"" is the song played over the public address system at Celtic Park, Glasgow when the Scottish football team Celtic run onto the pitch before kick-off. Part of the song is set to an arrangement of part of the tune of ""With cat-like tread"", from the 1879 Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera ""The Pirates of Penzance"", with lyrics adapted from the American song ""Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here"". The ""It's a grand old team"" section, however, bears no resemblance to ""With cat-like tread"". There are many versions of the song. However, the original version,"
"in Gilbert's career, between 1866 and 1869. The first was ""Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack"", a musical spoof of Donizetti's ""L'elisir d'amore"" (1866). Next was ""La Vivandière; or, True to the Corps!"", a parody of Donizetti's ""La fille du régiment"" (1867). After ""The Merry Zingara"" came ""Robert the Devil"" (1868), parodying Meyerbeer's romantic opera ""Robert le diable"", and ""The Pretty Druidess; or, the Mother, the Maid, and the Mistletoe Bough"" (1869), a burlesque of Bellini's ""Norma"". ""The Merry Zingara"" premiered as the centrepiece in a triple bill. It was preceded by a ""domestic melodrama"", entitled ""Daddy"
"a curtain-raiser to the shorter Gilbert and Sullivan operas. Triple-bills of Sullivan's three one-act operas have also proved successful. How Sullivan came to collaborate with Stephenson is uncertain. Just ten weeks before ""The Zoo"" opened, ""Trial by Jury"" premiered at the Royalty Theatre, with a libretto by Sullivan's more famous collaborator, W. S. Gilbert. But in 1875, Gilbert and Sullivan were not yet a permanent team. Sullivan had already written two operas with F. C. Burnand, and in late 1874 he had travelled to Paris to see one of Offenbach's librettists, Albert Millaud, although it is not known if anything"
"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"
"S. Gilbert, Mitford served as a consultant on Japanese culture to Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan during the development of their 1885 Savoy Opera ""The Mikado"". A traditional Japanese song hummed by Mitford to Gilbert and Sullivan during a rehearsal was used in the opera for the march accompanying the Mikado's entrance. In 1886, Mitford inherited the substantial country estates of his first cousin twice removed, John Freeman-Mitford, 1st Earl of Redesdale. In accordance with the will he assumed by Royal licence the additional surname of Freeman. Appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Gloucestershire, he became a magistrate and took up farming"
"""No Cards"" was the first of Gilbert's six pieces for the Gallery of Illustration. It was also Gilbert's first libretto with prose dialogue and the first stage work for which he wrote lyrics to be set to music, rather than lyrics to pre-existing music. ""No Cards"" was played on a double bill with Arthur Sullivan and F. C. Burnand's ""Cox and Box"", although Gilbert and Sullivan did not meet until later that year. After a successful 139 performances, the bill toured the British provinces. Gilbert liked German Reed's setting of the Babbetyboobledore song enough to reuse it later in 1879"
"or ""entertainments"", for Thomas German Reed. At a rehearsal for one of these entertainments, ""Ages Ago"", in 1870, the composer Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to his friend, the young composer Arthur Sullivan. Over the next year, before the two first collaborated, Gilbert continued to write humorous verse, stories and plays, including the comic operas ""Our Island Home"" (1870) and ""A Sensation Novel"" (1871), and the blank verse comedies ""The Princess"" (1870), ""The Palace of Truth"" (1870) and ""Pygmalion and Galatea"" (1871). Sullivan was born in London on 13 May 1842. His father was a military bandmaster, and by the time"
"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"
"the Great Quack"". This was not intended to be sung at great speed and is thus more of a precursor of, for example, ""When I, good friends, was called to the bar"" (""Trial by Jury"") or ""As some day it may happen"" (""The Mikado""), than are the examples of the ""rapid-fire"" patter above. Most of the Gilbert and Sullivan patter songs are solos for the principal comedian in the cast and were originally performed by George Grossmith. Anna Russell's ""How to write your own Gilbert and Sullivan Opera"" contains an affectionate parody of a Gilbert and Sullivan patter song. Apart"
"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"
"Tom Cobb Tom Cobb or, Fortune's Toy is a farce in three-acts (styled ""An Entirely Original Farcical Comedy"") by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the St. James's Theatre on 24 April 1875. Although it was praised by the critics, the original production of the play ran for only 53 performances. Arthur Sullivan's ""The Zoo"" played as an afterpiece to ""Tom Cobb"". Gilbert and Sullivan had already produced their hit one-act comic opera ""Trial by Jury"" by the time ""Tom Cobb"" was written, but both Gilbert and Sullivan were still producing a considerable amount of work separately. Several plot elements"