They'd None of 'em Be Missed - Softcover

Richard Suart; A S H Smyth

 
9781843680369: They'd None of 'em Be Missed
Softcover
ISBN 10: 184368036X ISBN 13: 9781843680369
Publisher: Pallas Athene, 2023

Synopsis

  • Richard Suart’s biography of the hilarious, malleable song the Little List, of English National Opera’s The Mikado, through its many topical versions, many of them his own


'...the news that Baritone Richard Suart has produced an account of Ko-Ko's Little Lists will be music to your ears. Beginning with a brief history of The Mikado, this hearty collaboration focuses on the way contemporary politics and society are freshly lampooned in each season's book' - Sunday Telegraph

Richard Suart, heir to the great Gilbert and Sullivan singers of the past, has made the role of KoKo, Lord High Executioner, his own. Over the last 20 years his topical version of the Little List song has become a focus of audience expectation and hilarity. In this book, he looks back over the Lists that have raised such laughter at the Coliseum and at the history of this immensely malleable song, taking in previous performers such as George Grossmith, Martyn Green, Groucho Marx, Frankie Howerd and Eric Idle - not to mention poets as varied as John Hollander and Tim Rice. Illustrated with 56 colour and 45 black & white illustrations, many never previously reproduced, this is a delightful biography of one of the most entertaining songs in the English language.

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About the Author

Richard Suart is a baritone who began his operatic career with the English Music Theatre Company and Opera Factory. A. S. H. Smyth is a freelance foreign affairs journalist.

From the Back Cover

Here's a how-de-do! Our leading contemporary exponent of the G&S patter roles reveals himself to be a consummate parodist, worthy of the master. Re-live the celebrities and scandals of the last twenty-five years with this wonderful collection of reworkings of the Little List song from The Mikado, delightfully illustrated and supplemented by fascinating versions from earlier times and from overseas. A source of innocent merriment, indeed.

- Ian Bradley, author of The Complete Annotated Gilbert & Sullivan

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Publisher
Pallas Athene
Publication date
2023
Language
English
ISBN 10 
184368036X
ISBN 13 
9781843680369
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
192