Welcome to my shop let me cut your mop
*quacks*
Well this wasn't actually me, but on Saturday Owner went to see this. Anyway he's asked me to post this.
Like a lot of people, my introduction to classical music owes a lot to Carl Stalling. So on Saturday night, not only was I able to sit in the Adelaide Festival Theatre and listen to classical music, I was able to also giggle incessantly at it. For you see Bugs Bunny on Broadway was playing in Adelaide.
The first thing you noticed, is that there is something fundamentally wrong with 71 professionaly trained musicians, probably more accustomed to playing Shostakovich. Playing the opening vamp to a Looney Tunes Cartoon…yet, at the same time I could not stop myself smiling uncontrollably at it.
Naturally in a show like this, such classic’s like Rabbit of Seville and What’s Opera Doc, were always going to be a crowd favourite, in each case they were the respective act finale’s. For those unenlightened "What’s Opera Doc", takes the 15 hours of Wagner's Ring Der Ring Des Nibelungen and compresses it down to 4 and ½ minutes... oh and replaces the key cast with Buggs and Elmer. In the same way that "Rabbit of Sevillie" made me think that Rossini wrote "Welcome to my shop, Let me cut your mop". I grew up thinking that the libretto to “The Flying Dutchman” was Kill Da Wabbit! Kill Da Wabbit!
In addition to above, the ASO also, somehow, managed to get through a whole Roadrunner and Coyote cartoon. I tell you, that is the first time I’ve seen an orchestra wipe sweat from their collective brows, at the rate that pages were turning I don’t blame them.
The show conceived by George Daugherty has been touring since 1990, so do yourself a favour or two and try to see this show.
Set list ACT 1
Overture to The Flying Dutchman
The Warner Bros. Fanfare
Merrily We Roll Along (the Looney tunes theme)
Baton Bunny (Based on Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna “Franz von Suppe")
What’s Up Doc
High Note
One Froggy Evening (staring Michigan J Frog)
Zoom and Bored
The Rabbit of Seville (Based on the Overture to The Barber of Seville "Gioacchino Rossini")
ACT 2
Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna (complete)
This is a Life
A Corny Concerto
Long-Haried Hare
What’s Opera Doc (Based on music from Ring Der Ring Des Nibelungen "Richard Wagner")
That’s All Folks
Owner out!
*vrooms*
Well this wasn't actually me, but on Saturday Owner went to see this. Anyway he's asked me to post this.
Like a lot of people, my introduction to classical music owes a lot to Carl Stalling. So on Saturday night, not only was I able to sit in the Adelaide Festival Theatre and listen to classical music, I was able to also giggle incessantly at it. For you see Bugs Bunny on Broadway was playing in Adelaide.
The first thing you noticed, is that there is something fundamentally wrong with 71 professionaly trained musicians, probably more accustomed to playing Shostakovich. Playing the opening vamp to a Looney Tunes Cartoon…yet, at the same time I could not stop myself smiling uncontrollably at it.
Naturally in a show like this, such classic’s like Rabbit of Seville and What’s Opera Doc, were always going to be a crowd favourite, in each case they were the respective act finale’s. For those unenlightened "What’s Opera Doc", takes the 15 hours of Wagner's Ring Der Ring Des Nibelungen and compresses it down to 4 and ½ minutes... oh and replaces the key cast with Buggs and Elmer. In the same way that "Rabbit of Sevillie" made me think that Rossini wrote "Welcome to my shop, Let me cut your mop". I grew up thinking that the libretto to “The Flying Dutchman” was Kill Da Wabbit! Kill Da Wabbit!
In addition to above, the ASO also, somehow, managed to get through a whole Roadrunner and Coyote cartoon. I tell you, that is the first time I’ve seen an orchestra wipe sweat from their collective brows, at the rate that pages were turning I don’t blame them.
The show conceived by George Daugherty has been touring since 1990, so do yourself a favour or two and try to see this show.
Set list ACT 1
Overture to The Flying Dutchman
The Warner Bros. Fanfare
Merrily We Roll Along (the Looney tunes theme)
Baton Bunny (Based on Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna “Franz von Suppe")
What’s Up Doc
High Note
One Froggy Evening (staring Michigan J Frog)
Zoom and Bored
The Rabbit of Seville (Based on the Overture to The Barber of Seville "Gioacchino Rossini")
ACT 2
Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna (complete)
This is a Life
A Corny Concerto
Long-Haried Hare
What’s Opera Doc (Based on music from Ring Der Ring Des Nibelungen "Richard Wagner")
That’s All Folks
Owner out!
*vrooms*