Oh False One, You Have Deceived Me
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Gilbert and Sullivan's raucous operatic tale is captured in all its fun and glory in this production, recorded live at Central Park's Delacorte Theater. Kevin Kline sparkles as the swashbuckling and libidinous Pirate King while Linda Ronstadt makes her theatrical debut as the lovely and virginal Mabel. When Mabel and Frederic, a young pirate bound to serve the Pirate King, fall in love, complications arise and high spirited antics ensue. The incomparable cast offers the best in this boisterous romp.
That glorious voice and truly Adonis beauty of Rex Smith in the Central Park production of "Pirates" were part of great memories of New York at its height.
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I was fortunate to have seen this production in Central Park, and I remember how Patricia Routledge triumphed through her incredible theatrical savvy and superb singing. Interesting how she adjusts her "legit" vocal technique to the looser, musical comedy/vaudeville spirit of this re-scored production (compare her Ruth to her Iolanthe and Mad Margaret in the BBC radio productions). She also manages to create the most sympathetic Ruth of my experience, quite a feat when you consider Gilbert's apparent animus towards older women! Notice how they managed to extend Ruth's solo in the slow middle section of this duet by letting her sing a portion of the duet section alone, then repeat it with Rex Smith singing (as written). I love it when she smacks him with her bag on her exit!
I agree completely!
WOW!!!! Is that Hyacinth Bucket??!
Patricia and Rex are a great team!
Routledge is womderful
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The thing I like about Pat Routledge's portrayal is that she's strong enough as both a singer and an actress that Rex can go at full throttle. I have heard the recording with Estelle Parsons as Ruth and seen the movie with Angela Lansbury. Rex's voice was too strong for both of them, so he had to pull back. Not so here. I'm only sorry Routledge couldn't stay for the Broadway production.
I think at some point Kaye Ballard also played Ruth in the Broadway transfer of this production. Of all of them, only Routledge had both the legit vocal technique and the musical comedy chops to find the ideal balance for the role. It was a smart piece of casting for the summer, and the fact that she was in a sense irreplaceable is just another reminder of what a special, treasurable artist she is.
I love their voices!
Patricia routlege very versatile
A majority of the principal characters from this Central Park production played their parts in the movie. Some changes that I recall are Angela Lansbury taking the part of Ruth (instead of Patricia Rutledge) and the part of Samuel was also given to a different actor.
Patricia Routledge was replaced by Estelle Parsons when the production moved to Broadway (and later by Kaye Ballard, I believe). Lansbuy was brought in for the film.
NO! its Bouquet!
Brilliant production
Love Rex Smith!
that guy played frederic in the movie too
Ahh, mrs. Bucket.......
@DoubleOhSammy What you mentioned about Hyacinth Bucket being a terrible singer. It reminded me of a comedy album from the 1950s, I think, in which Jo Stafford and Paul Weston camped it up as a married lounge lizard couple named Jonathan and Darlene Edwards. It was a tribute to them -- as it is to Pat Routledge -- how good you have to be to be deliberately bad for comedic effect.
The Jonathan and Darlene Edwards LPs by Stafford and Weston are classics of musical send-up... and yes, you have to be an excellent singer like Stafford or Routledge to make real comedy of bad singing. (It's actually pretty difficult to sing EVERY note flat or sharp!) Another excellent singer who did this was Cathy Berberian, a versatile classical singer who created a recital in which she lampooned expertly many, many failings of vocalists. Her version of Purcell's "Nymphs and Shepherds," sung as if by a nervous and extremely pitch-insecure amateur, is a classic to rank with Routledge's Hyacinth Bucket demolishing Irving Berlin's "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun."
that looks like and sounds like Rex Smith from the movie
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Do you mean John Mills??????
She was wasted on Hyacinth.
No, she was pure comedy gold! She's one of the funniest women ever.
As one of the creators of "Keeping Up Appearances" said, what she brought to the part was not only her immense vocal comic gifts, but -- unexpectedly -- her expertise at physical comedy. It lifted Hyacinth Bucket into the satirical stratosphere. And if many people apparently identify her only with that show and can't be bothered to watch her other work, f.i. the two great characters she did for Alan Bennett's "Talking Heads" or the Kitty monologues or her Mrs. Peachum in "The Beggar's Opera" that's their loss.
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