That closing just broke my heart! I'd seen EVERY different cast, LIVE, since the end of WW II and even got to meet, back stage, Martin Green, when I was almost 4; I'll NEVER forget that.
" TOPSY TURVEY " is shown, a lot, on cabel.
RUDDIGORE, though seldom performed now, for various reasons, not the least of which is the staging, is very very good. " When the night wind howls, in the chimney cowls,and the bat in the moonlight flies.... " and the pictures coming to life, and the send up of Methodists ( I'm a Methodist. LOL )are some of my very favorite things about that operetta. And Mad Margaret being so ditsy Opheliaesque, in the beginning is fantastic. :-)
Do you like Yomen and Patience too ?
Yeoman and Patience are two of the best. I watched most of Patience last weekend on a BBC video. The only one I don't like is Iolantha. They are so much wittier than the trite that comes out now. I'm afraid we might be a dieing breed. The world's tastes seem to get cheaper by the day.
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