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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781892562159
Format: Classical, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 1892562154
Label: Gmg Records
Manufacturer: Gmg Records
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Gmg Records
Release Date: May 05, 1998
Running Time: 90 minutes
Sales Rank: 1573
Studio: Gmg Records
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Victor Borge was a master at combining two seemingly disparate elements: comedy and classical music. While the Dane's dapper dignity fit the image of 'longhair' music, Borge undercut it with broad physical comedy, clever spoofs, and off-the-cuff wit. A pioneer in the field of live comedy recordings, Borge is nevertheless best appreciated on video, and The Best of Victor Borge Acts One and Two captures a 90-minute concert that includes many of his most famous routines. He chides late-arriving members of the Minneapolis audience ('I come from Copenhagen and was here before you!'), falls off the piano bench, and reads his sheet music upside down. There are a few unwitting guests: a stagehand drafted to turn Borge's pages, soprano Marylyn Mulvey who tries to sing a Verdi aria through Borge's teasing and scolding, and Sahan Arzruni as he and Borge play a two-piano Hungarian rhapsody on a single piano by climbing over and around each other. Borge also presents an opera 'written by Mozart but credited to Salieri' ('so you can imagine what kind of opera it is') and proves that he's not merely a clown by skillfully performing a set of waltzes and lullabies. In addition, two of his best-loved sketches are nonmusical: Inflationary Language, in which numbers in language, like the economy, are increased ('I'll go back to Elevenessee.... Three-dleoo.'), and Phonetic Punctuation, in which a period is read aloud to sound like fft and an exclamation point fsss fft. Like Anna Russell and PDQ Bach, Victor Borge helped make classical music accessible to a wide audience by showing that it could be laugh-out-loud funny. --David Horiuchi
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - time to lighten-up
This DVD was one of the gifts I gave my 13 year old granddaughter. We watched it with her parents on Christmas day. We all laughed so hard that we cried. Victor ... Read More
Rating: - Timeless comedy from the amazing and twoderful Victor Borge
I remember listening to Victor Borge as a child on my parents LP player. I just couldn't get over the laughter from things as simple as Phonetic Punctuation. Although ... Read More
Rating:  - Best of Victor Borge Act one and two
Very intertaining. I got this video to pass Victor Borge down to my grandkids--- they had never heard of him but enjoyed him immensely.
Rating:  - love borge, but not this dvd
I really like Victor Borge, but for a DVD this had really bad video quality. Basically VHS quality, and it was as if they transferred that straight to DVD. Also, it was ... Read More
Rating: - phonetically the best!
As a child I enjoyed an LP by Victor Borge, and now as an adult have thoroughly enjoyed seeing the DVD of Mr Borge. My children, who love classical music, found him completely ... Read More
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