G&S factlet

Over the past two evenings, we watched our DVD of 'Topsy-Turvy' once again. A DVD first watched back in 2015 and noticed at reference 1, the fictionalised and very glossy story of the creation of the 'Mikado', one of the most successful light operas of all time. With an expensive performance of this last being noticed at reference 2.

This morning, I learn that the George Grossmith who figures as a member of the cast of Mikado in the film was the same as the George Grossmith who was part author with his brother of  'The Diary of a Nobody', a book which has sat in one or other of our bookcases for around fifty years. It has now lost its dust jacket but is still in reasonably good order. Probably not read for a while now, but unlikely to be culled any time soon.

According to Wikipedia, Grossmith became a very successful solo entertainer after his G&S years, making far more at that than he ever had as a singer.

While according to BH, it was so blindingly obvious that the singer and the author were the same person that she did not think to mention it. Not obvious to me at all, blindingly or otherwise.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-mikado-visits-leatherhead.html.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.com/2013/01/nanki-poo.html.

Reference 3: The Diary of a Nobody - George and Weedon Grossmith - 1892.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grossmith.