*jumps in* I haven't actually seen it, and for all I know it was better than it sounded, but I was told of a local amateur production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience with a modern setting in which instead of rival aesthetes and heavy dragoons, Bunthorne and Grosvenor were rival gym owners (I don't know what the dragoons were) and Lady Jane performed 'Silvered is the raven hair' from an exercise bike. I just. Whut.
And then there was Jon English's Pirates of Penzance back in 97 or 98, about which all I can remember is my stunned disbelief that anyone might any point have considered Jon English to be sexually attractive, and that he 'ad-libbed' (in scare-quotes because I don't know what to call it if it's not in the script but he's obviously doing the same thing every night) telling the Major-General that he did hope none of his daughters were thespians (wink wink, see how he's just joking about how everyone on stage is an actor, it's totally not a lesbian joke! don't be so uptight!) and sitting through the rest of it in a fog of rage. (I was touchy about G&S at seventeen.)
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And then there was Jon English's Pirates of Penzance back in 97 or 98, about which all I can remember is my stunned disbelief that anyone might any point have considered Jon English to be sexually attractive, and that he 'ad-libbed' (in scare-quotes because I don't know what to call it if it's not in the script but he's obviously doing the same thing every night) telling the Major-General that he did hope none of his daughters were thespians (wink wink, see how he's just joking about how everyone on stage is an actor, it's totally not a lesbian joke! don't be so uptight!) and sitting through the rest of it in a fog of rage. (I was touchy about G&S at seventeen.)