
DVD Available Now: bit.ly Mitchell Butel of Avenue Q fame sings "I've Got a Little List" from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado. This excerpt is from the cinema/DVD recording of Opera Australia's 2011 production at the Arts Centre, Melbourne. Lyrics: As someday it may happen that a victim must be found, I've got a little list. I've got a little list Of society offenders who might well be underground And who never would be missed, who never would be missed. There's the idiot denouncing with enthusiastic tone All football teams but his and every suburb but his own. The man who sits beside you on the plane and wants to talk, Whose jabbering inspires you to jab him with your fork. Your aunty with the moustache who insists on being kissed. They'd none of them be missed, they'd none of them be missed. (He's got them on the list! He's got them on the list! And they'd none of them be missed! They'd none of them be missed!) Those whinging letter writers and those pundits in the press. That opinion columnist, that bore would not be missed. That trendy thing in opera if the plot seems like a mess, That nice surtitlist! (Surtitles: 'This song is not on my list. Normal transmission will resume shortly') The politician prancing round in speedos tightly packed, He thought it cool but really it just showed us what he lacked. And Canberra's leading red-head who's afraid of stickybeaks, Who'd like to keep her fumbles and mistakes off Wikileaks. Australian Idol singers who pathetically <b>...</b>
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