Word: 50th
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...Katie Couric's Holly Golightly party at Tiffany's. This past Sunday, the CBS news anchor donned a Holly-style frock and long black gloves and threw herself a 50th birthday party at Tiffany's Fifth Avenue flagship store. (Proceeds to the National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance...
...Johnny, you're the king of Christmas," Bette Midler tells him on Mathis' latest collection, Gold: 50th Anniversary Christmas Celebration, before they lend their still-expert chops to a medley of "Winter Wonderland" and "Let It Snow." At 71, Johnny is certainly the season's most consistent troubadour, having done Christmas albums in 1958, 1963, 1969, 1986 and 1993. Stick with the first, which matches Mathis' clear, confident tenor to a familiar batch of seasonals. A camp highlight is "Sleigh Ride," in which Johnny unleashes a falsetto, tres gay "Yoooo HOO!" The numbers get lush, warming orchestral support from...
Celebrating their 50th anniversary, the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRGSP) whiz through “H.M.S. Pinafore” and “Trial by Jury,” performed back-to-back with energy, grace, and abundant humor.Whether Gilbert and Sullivan are names you’ve only heard uttered by your parents, or if you’ve performed their operettas since you were little, these two dead Victorian Englishmen have a lot more to offer than their dreary names suggest. Directed by Charlie I. Miller ’08 and produced by Jeremy R. Steinemann...
...part to a group of students in Winthrop House,” who regularly performed Gilbert and Sullivan libretti.An alternate tale appears in the Web site’s “Director and Historian Notes” section, written by HRG&SP 50th Anniversary Coordinator Emma B. Katz ’06, which states that “the more immediate lead-up to HRG&SP’s birth was due in part to a group of students who were already performing the operettas regularly, but without a fixed home.”The discrepancy may seem minor...
...Pinafore.” Indeed, perhaps the only opportunity Harvard students and alums nowadays will have to experience Victorian England will come next weekend, as 200 alumni and family members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) waltz into Cambridge for the organization’s 50th anniversary celebration.When a few students first conceived of starting such a group, in the spring of 1956, they had few resources other than their love for the works of Gilbert and Sullivan, with the first patron letter requesting a modest five dollar donation. Since then, HRG&SP has grown into...