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...Elizabethan world he recreates. Gramm is light on his feet and a magical actor as he spins out recollections of his pageboy youth (Quand' ero paggio) and summons up what seems impossible but makes the character human: the memory of Falstaff as a child. He is no opera buffoon, but a laughing knight whether on top of the world or crushed by it. As Ponelle says: "Don't forget that Falstaff is an aristocrat...
BACKING UP the cast, the orchestra does a yeoman-like job of performing Sullivan's score. Aside from Point and Elsie's ballad, the best numbers in the show include Point's cynical patter song ("Oh a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon"), "Were I thy bride," during which Phoebe dallies with Wilfred while her father steals his keys, and "A man who would woo a fair maid," Fairfax's own testament to his success as a lover...
...recent run of articles on our President's bumbling style [Jan. 5] portray Mr. Ford as a bigger-than-life buffoon. What person has not tripped over his own feet or tied his tongue in knots over a simple statement? Does the nation want God hi the White House...
...blunders coincide with "a series of political and policy blunders that leave no doubt they're all being pulled off by the same guy." Frets an influential Republican politician on the fast-circulating Ford jokes: "I think they are hurting him. No one wants an image as a buffoon, least of all a President...
Unlike some of the other members of the cast, the Lord Chancellor (Dennis Crowley) is at his best in the dialogue sections--his voice clear, sardonic and genuinely Gilbertian. He catches the verbal nuances with the skill of a born Savoyard and manages to be not only a buffoon and a figure of pathos, but, when necessary, a commanding Lord in his own right. The only flaw in Crowley's performance is that his voice is not quite as strong as it might be--never powerful enough to belt out a line that needs belting out. Nonetheless, he traverses...