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Bob is notorious for his "wacky, witty, wise sayings"-- "Bobisms," some label them. While he doesn't exactly exude "sparkling optimism" and "bubbling effervesence," (he might be more comparable to "Saturday Night Live's" 'Grumpy Old Man,') he is, nevertheless, the acknowledged, beloved house personality.
The program for H.M.S. Pinafore describes the show as "an entirely original nautical comic opera." "Nautical" is the only original item here, for if you've seen one Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, you've seen them all. Take the beloved feel-good plot of protagonists overcoming rigid British class divisions...
If $400 sounds too much to spend even for your most beloved, you can keep your holiday budget down by skipping the multimedia kit and just getting some CD-ROMs (Let your friends worry about the CD-ROM drives themselves!).
Postmodern directors have been shaking up grand opera for quite a while, especially in European cities like Hamburg, where this production was first unveiled in 1990. But rarely has opera received a shaking like this. The victim is Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischutz (The Free-Shooter). First performed...
This slap-stick atmosphere, however, proves incompatible when the film chooses to shift gears, focusing on the serious problems of divorce. While Sally Field is largely convincing as a somewhat frustrated, struggling career woman, the "real-life" interactions between Daniel and Miranda seem stiff and unrealistic. And no tangible rapport...