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A Pervert's Lot.

By BrianRobertNeal

01 April 2007

The version of G+S that has been passed down is heavily censored and bowdlerised. In then end there were two streams one paddled by the Oily Cart Company and one that relied on private performance in direputable venues.

Extract from The Pervets of Penzance.

When a pervert's not engaged in his perversion
(His perversion)
Or his pornographic books ceases to scan
(ceases to scan)
His capacity for innocent enjoyment
(cent enjoyment)
Is far more limited than any normal man
(normal man)
When the Oedipal's stopped jumping on his mother
(On his mother)
He goes and chases sheep out in the sun
(in the sun)
Taking one consideration with another
(with another)
A pervert's lot is quite a varied one
Aaah Aaah"

"So if you're thinking of new ways of having fun
(having fun)
A pervert's life is quite a varied one
(Varied one)"

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A Pervert's Lot.
Written by CliffBowes (176 comments posted) 1st April 2007

I'm a big G & S fan, having played parts in the chorus of Pinafore and Gondoliers, I didn't realise I was appearing in soft porn productions.
You've missed an R in the first line "Extract from the pervets.....
Great fun BRN, look forward to more of the same.
Cliff

A Pervert's Lot.
Written by CliffBowes (176 comments posted) 1st April 2007

I seem to be seeing double - don't know what happened there.
Cliff

Written by Phil (6645 comments posted) 1st April 2007

Tell me I've never lived if you like - but I've never seen a G&S production. Know the song though. Would like to hear this performed by a G&S type choir, I think that would be funny.

Phil.

Watto CB CB CB
Written by BrianRobertNeal (1195 comments posted) 1st April 2007

Glad you liked it. I've done Ruddigore twice and Pirates once-Chorus of course.

I've seen all of them performed except Princess Ida, Utopia ltd and of course Thespis which was re-written and retitled and was their last work, I can't remember its 2nd title.

If you look there are a lot of double-entendres or straight if discrete smuttiness.

Brian.

Watto Phil
Written by BrianRobertNeal (1195 comments posted) 1st April 2007

Glad you liked it.

I've done a send up of a Local Radio Station's "Arts Night" which features the Moderato ( An operetta utilisng Sullivan's music and via the spirit pen of BRN Gilbert's words.

I might have posted it here, if so it might be time for a revival.

Brian

Written by CliffBowes (176 comments posted) 2nd April 2007

Hi Brian,
I think Thespis (The Gods Grown Old) was in fact the first work by G & S, opening 1871. All but two of the songs have been lost. It was re-written by, I think, Colin Johnson. The Grand Duke (1896) was their last work together.
All great operettas and much fun to take part in don't you think. I would love to see your take on the Nightmare Song! hint hint.
Cliff

Watto CB
Written by BrianRobertNeal (1195 comments posted) 2nd April 2007

Thespis was extant though unperformed until the 1930's when a lad at Chapells chucked the only manuscript onto a bonfire. They were having a clear out.

A book to own and love or borrow from the Library is

Ian Bradley's "The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan" Publisher Oxford University Press.

Brian

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