I Came Across A Utube Clip Of The Late...

[sandyRoe]

... Jonathan Miller talking about the works of Gilbert and Sullivan.

He didn't think much of them apart from The Mikado.

Was he setting the bar too  high?  I don't suppose they thought themselves in the same league as Shakespeare.

[davebro3]

no - did Shakespeare write musicals?

like saying Arsenal aren't in the same league at the Harlequins🤣

[sandyRoe]

With the masques in some of his dramas he might have been moving towards musicals.

Had he lived longer who knows where his muse might have lead him?

[Khandro]

Gilbert and Sullivan brought & still brings more joy into Britain than Jonathan Miller ever did.

[Khandro]

When I was a lad I served a term
As office boy to an Attorney's firm.
I cleaned the windows and I swept the floor,
And I polished up the handle of the big front door.
(He polished up the handle of the big front door.)
I polished up that handle so carefully
That now I am the Ruler of the Queen's Navy!
(He polished up that handle so carefullee,
That now he is the ruler of the Queen's Navee!)

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[sandyRoe]

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