Almost Perfect Pirates
T is ungracious to carp at the gift of half a loaf just because your appetite is equal to a whole one, so I shall ,content myself with expressing deep appreciation of my hour-and-a-quarter Pirates of Penzance from 2YA on a recent Fri-
day. Far too often Friday night turns out to be the Cinderella of the broadcasting week, and I am sometimes tempted to wonder whether the crowds of people who shop on Friday nights do so because of Radio Theatre or whether
Radio Theatre is allowed to happen only because there are few to listen. (It was the horror of "Honeymoon Nightmare" that led me to consider this bitter theory.) But The Pirates is a different story. The "personal supervision of Mr. Rupert D’Oyly Carte" (continued on next page)
~ (continued -from previous page) made for an almost perfect perform‘ance, particularly in the more exacting passages. I do not think I have ‘ever heard the duet "Ah, leave me not to pine alone and desolate" so beautifully sung. On the other hand, I felt that the patter songs could have done with a little less: supervision, since the fact that Rupert’s, and beyond that the great W. S. Gilbert's eye was upon them prevented the comedians from introducing those individual touches which add spontaneity without blaspheming the original. I am quite looking forward to 1952,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 509, 25 March 1949, Page 8
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229Almost Perfect Pirates New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 509, 25 March 1949, Page 8
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