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* SnapBack: Wilfred is arrested after Fairfax escapes in the finale of Act I, but is suddenly at liberty when Act II begins with no mention of his arrest. It is made clear, however, that he has lost his job as head jailer and assistant tormentor.
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* SnapBack: Wilfred is arrested after Fairfax escapes in the finale of Act I, but is suddenly at liberty when Act II begins with no mention of his arrest. It is made clear, implied, however, that he has lost his job as head jailer and assistant tormentor.
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* SnapBack: Wilfred is arrested after Fairfax escapes in the finale of Act I, but is suddenly at liberty when Act II begins with no mention of his arrest.
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* SnapBack: Wilfred is arrested after Fairfax escapes in the finale of Act I, but is suddenly at liberty when Act II begins with no mention of his arrest. It is made clear, however, that he has lost his job as head jailer and assistant tormentor.
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''Yeoman'' has had several television film adaptations including a 1982 version with Creator/JoelGrey as Jack Point.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Sir Richard who is sympathetic to Fairfax' cause and goes along with his arrangement to thrawt the designs of his malicious cousin.
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* SnapBack: Wilfred is arrested after Fairfax escapes in the finale of Act I, but is suddenly at liberty when Act II begins with no mention of his arrest.
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** An answer from the Gilbert and Sullivan fan site savoy.net: "Because they are both so tight that they don't give seconds."
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* OrphanedSetup: Jack tries out the riddle, "Can you tell me, sir, why a cook’s brain-pan is like an overwound clock?" Cholmondely refuses to hear the punch line, to Jack's frustration. We never find it out.
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* WanderingMinstrel: Jack Point and Elsie Maynard are strolling performers, though Jack manages to land a gig as CourtJester for Cholmondely later on.
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* AmbiguousEnding: The stage direction at the end of the opera says only that Elsie and Fairfax embrace while Point "falls insensible at their feet." Asked to clarify its meaning, Gilbert told stage manager J.M. Gordon "the fate of Jack Point is in the hands of the audience, who may please themselves whether he lives or dies."
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* AmbiguousEnding: The stage direction at the end of the opera says only that Elsie and Fairfax embrace while Point "falls insensible at their feet." Asked to clarify its meaning, Gilbert told stage manager J.M. Gordon "the fate of Jack Point is in the hands of the audience, who may please themselves whether he lives or dies."" (George Grossmith, who originated the role, waggled his toes comically at the end to indicate he was still alive. Other productions have chosen to make it more clear that he suffers a heart attack.)
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* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: In Act 1, Jack Point and Elsie Maynard perform "I Have A Song To Sing, O!" which tells the story of a jester who falls in UnrequitedLove with a highborn lady. This turns out to have multiple layers of DramaticIrony to the rest of the plot.
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* AmbiguousEnding: The stage direction at the end of the opera says only that Elsie and Fairfax embrace while Point "falls insensible at their feet." Directors and performers have made their own decisions about what that means. Asked to clarify its meaning, Gilbert told stage manager J.M. Gordon "the fate of Jack Point is in the hands of the audience, who may please themselves whether he lives or dies."
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* AmbiguousEnding: The stage direction at the end of the opera says only that Elsie and Fairfax embrace while Point "falls insensible at their feet." Directors and performers have made their own decisions about what that means. Asked to clarify its meaning, Gilbert told stage manager J.M. Gordon "the fate of Jack Point is in the hands of the audience, who may please themselves whether he lives or dies."
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* AmbiguousEnding: The stage direction at the end of the opera says only that Elsie and Fairfax embrace while Point "falls insensible at their feet." Directors and performers have made their own decisions about what that means.
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* AmbiguousEnding: The stage direction at the end of the opera says only that Elsie and Fairfax embrace while Point "falls insensible at their feet." Directors and performers have made their own decisions about what that means. Asked to clarify its meaning, Gilbert told stage manager J.M. Gordon "the fate of Jack Point is in the hands of the audience, who may please themselves whether he lives or dies."
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* VillainSong: Wilfred Shadbolt has a solo early in the show called "A Jealous Torment". It was cut after the first performance but is brought back in some modern productions.
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** DeathOfTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Jack Point]].
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* AmbiguousSituation: The stage direction at the end of the opera says only that Elsie and Fairfax embrace while Point "falls insensible at their feet." Directors and performers have made their own decisions about what that means.
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* AmbiguousSituation: AmbiguousEnding: The stage direction at the end of the opera says only that Elsie and Fairfax embrace while Point "falls insensible at their feet." Directors and performers have made their own decisions about what that means.
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''The Yeomen of the Guard, or, The Merryman and his Maid'' is an opera by Creator/GilbertAndSullivan. It takes place in the Tower of London in the 16th century, and concerns a young street performer, Elsie Maynard, who agrees to marry a condemned man named Colonel Fairfax, without even meeting him: she will be a widow the next day, and the marriage will prevent his fortune going to the kinsman who framed him for a crime. However, with the help of kindly old Sergeant Meryll and his daughter Phoebe, Fairfax escapes, and, under an assumed identity, begins to woo his own wife -- to the distress of Jack Point, the [[SadClown unhappy jester]] who is Elsie's partner and hopes to be her husband.
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''The Yeomen of the Guard, or, The Merryman and his Maid'' is an opera by Creator/GilbertAndSullivan. It takes place in the Tower of London in the 16th century, and concerns a young street performer, musician, Elsie Maynard, who agrees to marry a condemned man named Colonel Fairfax, without even meeting him: she will be a widow the next day, and the marriage will prevent his fortune going to the kinsman who framed him for a crime. However, with the help of kindly old Sergeant Meryll and his daughter Phoebe, Fairfax escapes, and, under an assumed identity, begins to woo his own wife -- to the distress of Jack Point, the [[SadClown unhappy jester]] who is Elsie's performing partner and hopes to be her husband.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Elsie's reprise of "I Have a Song to Sing, O!" changes the line about the maiden who "laughed aloud" at the jester to saying that she "dropped a tear." Note that this was not in the original production, where Elsie "laughed aloud" at Point's misery. For a revival in 1897, Gilbert changed changed the line to make Elsie more sympathetic.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Elsie's reprise of "I Have a Song to Sing, O!" changes the line about the maiden who "laughed aloud" at the jester to saying that she "dropped a tear." Note that this was not in the original production, where Elsie "laughed aloud" at Point's misery. For a revival in 1897, Gilbert changed changed the line to make Elsie more sympathetic.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Zigzagged with Point and Elsie's introductory song, "I Have a Song to Sing, O!" It's about a jester who is [[SadClown "moping"]] because his female partner rejects him for a wealthy Lord, which foreshadows the LoveTriangle of the opera, but it has a much happier ending (for the jester, anyway) than the opera does.
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* ThrowTheDogABone: Elsie's reprise of "I Have a Song to Sing, O!" changes the line about the maiden who "laughed aloud" at the jester to saying that she "dropped a tear." Note that this was not in the original production, where Elsie "laughed aloud" at Point's misery. For a revival in 1897, Gilbert changed changed the line to make Elsie more sympathetic.
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''The Yeomen of the Guard, or, The Merryman and his Maid'' is an opera by Creator/GilbertAndSullivan. Though generally considered a "comic opera," it is notable as the team's [[SeriousBusiness most serious]] work. (Sir Henry Lytton wrote that Gilbert once told him that he had always intended Jack Point to die at the end, but had somewhat modified his intention due to the great comic reputation of George Grossmith, who originated the role.)
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''The Yeomen of the Guard, or, The Merryman and his Maid'' is an opera by Creator/GilbertAndSullivan. It takes place in the Tower of London in the 16th century, and concerns a young street performer, Elsie Maynard, who agrees to marry a condemned man named Colonel Fairfax, without even meeting him: she will be a widow the next day, and the marriage will prevent his fortune going to the kinsman who framed him for a crime. However, with the help of kindly old Sergeant Meryll and his daughter Phoebe, Fairfax escapes, and, under an assumed identity, begins to woo his own wife -- to the distress of Jack Point, the [[SadClown unhappy jester]] who is Elsie's partner and hopes to be her husband.
Though generally considered a "comic opera," it is notable as the team's [[SeriousBusiness most serious]]work.work. It even became tradition, after Gilbert's death, to make the opera an outright tragedy by having Point drop dead of a broken heart. (Sir Henry Lytton wrote that Gilbert once told him that he had always intended Jack Point to die at the end, but had somewhat modified his intention due to the great comic reputation of George Grossmith, who originated the role.)
Though generally considered a "comic opera," it is notable as the team's [[SeriousBusiness most serious]]
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The stage direction is more of an Ambiguous Situation since it's not clear that Gilbert intended Point to die.
* AmbiguousSituation: The stage direction at the end of the opera says only that Elsie and Fairfax embrace while Point "falls insensible at their feet." Directors and performers have made their own decisions about what that means.
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* NeverSayDie: According to the stage directions, [[spoiler:Jack]] "falls insensible".
