Title: Rich Characterization + Great Music
Product review: TOPSY-TURVY is a richly plotted bio-pic focusing on how W. S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan (who seemed to be burnt out and suffering from writer's/composer's block) gained their second wind and came back big time with THE MIKADO. Their very different personalities are clearly portrayed in both their professional and their private lives. In and around the main action are dozens of "minor" characters, all vividly presented. We get an excellent sense of what late Victorian life was REALLY like in London among the theater crowd, AND we get the excellent, clever G&S soundtrack that should make thousands of new fans for DVDs and CDs featuring the operettas of these two amazing men. Heart-warming and poignant, this is a DVD you'll want to watch over and over. As a "page-to-stage" story, TOPSY-TURVY is far superior to the totally bogus film SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE.
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