The Best of Victor Borge Act One and Two
by Sahan Arzruni
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Actor: Marylyn Mulvey, Ronald Borge, Sahan Arzruni, Victor BorgeDirector: Sahan Arzruni
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 90 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-09-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Gmg Records
Movie Reviews of The Best of Victor Borge Act One and Two
Movie Review: Victor Borge is great - this DVD isn't
Summary: 2 Stars
This DVD is very inadequate in showing the amount of humor Victor Borge is known for. And the length of the DVD is very short for what I was expecting. I was dissatisfied and returned the 3 unopened DVD's of the 4 I purchased for Christmas gifts.
Summary of The Best of Victor Borge Act One and Two
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 HoriuchiComedy DVD Video
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