Shakespeare and stuff

[cisamcgu]

It is an expectation thing, and the expectation was derived from the advertising. Mozart or Shakespeare - if you go presuming it is one thing, and find out it is different, then I think you have cause to complain.

 

[rich p]

So, who won the argument?
I cba to read the whole thread...
...is Bill the Bard shite or not?

 

[cisamcgu]

So, who won the argument?
I cba to read the whole thread...
...is Bill the Bard shite or not?

 

[Profpointy]

So, who won the argument?
I cba to read the whole thread...
...is Bill the Bard shite or not?

depends what the cast are wearing apparently.

 

[srw]

...is Bill the Bard shite or not?

You'll have to ask Southwark Trading Standards.

 

[ufkacbln]

You must be ecstatic then....

Nope just stunned by the stupidity, and he still doesn't understand the concept

 

[srw]

Yes, the music is the thing, but Mozart on a banjo is NOT Mozart with a "classic" orchestra ... and therein lies the rub

On the other hand Shakespeare is Shakespeare is Shakespeare - whatever the costume.

What cunobelin is objecting to is more like going to a Mozart concert where the poster showed the first and second violins on the left, and discovering when you got there that the seconds had been placed on the right. Or where the poster showed steel strings and you discover that the orchestra is actually using gut.

 

[ufkacbln]

It is an expectation thing, and the expectation was derived from the advertising. Mozart or Shakespeare - if you go presuming it is one thing, and find out it is different, then I think you have cause to complain.

Don't bother... Reasonable actions are not acceptable to some........The lies and ill informed claims in the reply to your post illustrate just how desperate some are

 

[ufkacbln]

On the other hand Shakespeare is Shakespeare is Shakespeare - whatever the costume.

What cunobelin is objecting to is more like going to a Mozart concert where the poster showed the first and second violins on the left, and discovering when you got there that the seconds had been placed on the right. Or where the poster showed steel strings and you discover that the orchestra is actually using gut.

SRW is merely posting lies and ill informed tripe

 

[RedRider]

There was never a man so notoriously abused.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Pure lies and ill informed tripe

It's so nice of you to post a summary of your argument instead of the whole thing. More people should do this.

 

[User169]

I'm wondering now how the Portsmouth Sinfonia ever got away with it.

 

[srw]

I'm wondering now how the Portsmouth Sinfonia ever got away with it.

The same way that One Direction do.

This has tickled a vague memory in the back of my mind about a legal case brought against one of the endless stream of manufactured pop bands. If memory serves, a disgruntled punter was miffed to discover that the show she'd been to see wasn't the "artists" singing live, but was actually the "artists" miming to a pre-recorded track, so she sued. And if really rusty memory serves, the courts found for the pop group - the advert of the "artists" singing didn't actually imply that they would be singing.

 

[Diggs]

I went to a pretty awful school but was lucky to have one of those genuinely inspiring teachers, who left me loving literature and Shakespeare particularly. Have watched it since then from modern day Henry V to comedies performed by amateur company in Romford parks

 

[srw]

The same way that One Direction do.

This has tickled a vague memory in the back of my mind about a legal case brought against one of the endless stream of manufactured pop bands. If memory serves, a disgruntled punter was miffed to discover that the show she'd been to see wasn't the "artists" singing live, but was actually the "artists" miming to a pre-recorded track, so she sued. And if really rusty memory serves, the courts found for the pop group - the advert of the "artists" singing didn't actually imply that they would be singing.

No - I can't find anything like that. Google found this report of someone successfully suing because The Sound of Music was performed to a prerecorded backing track - although Tom Service points out that the case didn't set a precedent, and there are still dozens of musicals like that around the place. I was also reminded (how could I have forgotten) of Marni Nixon, who provided the singing voice for dozens of film roles.