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[ceebeegee]

I'm so mortified. I just now found out that "Tit-willow" is sung by a man in Mikado. I can't sing it for the audition. I don't know Mikado. I know some of its music ("Three Little Maids," "The Sun Whose Rays") but very little about its plot. I was also thrown off because my freshman year, when I was at Mount Holyoke, we sang a compilation of G&S songs, including "Tit-willow," and I just always assumed that was a woman's song, even though we also sang other G&S songs that I knew were supposed to be sung by men, like "For...I am a Pirate Queen!/She is, hurrah for the Pirate Queen!/ And it is, it is a sight unseen to be a Pirate Queen..."

So, back to "The Sun Whose Rays" and possibly "I Cannot Tell What This Love May Be." Or maybe I could do something from Pirates...or even...The Pirate Movie. How about "Pumpin' and Blowin'"? That would be just the number to sing for an audition--a song about blow jobs.

Ah-huh, I've huffed and puffed
Just to keep love going.
I'm done, I've had enough
Of pumpin' and a-blowin'.

I discovered a site that's devoted to my favorite guilty pleasure, including the script: The Pirate Movie. Knock yourselves out.

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[darksheik.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Topsy-Turvy? I discovered it in a book of Ebert reviews -- it's about Gilbert and Sullivan writing the Mikado.

It's such a delightful movie and a great period piece - and features Jim "Zidler" Broadbent as Gilbert.

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Nooo! I will definitely check it out--I love me some G&S. Thanks for the heads up.

[dje2004.livejournal.com]

You like The Pirate Movie? Get Out! I loved that movie when I was a kid. Of course, I was 11 years old back then, and loved anything with pirates. I haven't seen this movie in years, and I suspect I might not love it quite so much today. Still, I never thought I'd actually meet someone else who remembers this movie, much less loves it. The fact that there are two Yahoo groups devoted to it scares me a little.

How can I live without her when she's all I'm livin' for?

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

I'm embarrassed to admit I actually saw this in the theater--one of about five people nationwide, I suspect. Even then (at 14) I could tell it would bomb but I loved its cheesy badness, especially loving The Pirates of Penzance as I do.

Now I can see
Through her eyes
How good love can be...

[dje2004.livejournal.com]

I was one of those five too. And I genuinely thought it was good. What's worse, I don't think I had even heard of the Pirates of Penzance at the time. But, again, I was 11.

Sadly, this is making me want to watch this movie again.

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

We are the pirates!
We can be irates!

No more sad times,
Mad old bad times...

Man, those lyrics were bad. My brother is a real G&S purist and was horrified at this movie.