Word: buttercup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...honor Gilbert's satirized British class distinctions, and it is this sitcom-like conflict which drives the play. Ralph professes his love for Josephine; she rejects the suitor her father has chosen and tries to elope with Ralph; Ralph is punished. Then, like a lightning-bolt from the Gods, Buttercup drops the secret that reverses fortunes and neatly resolves the plot...
...Gilbert and Sullivan Players are masters at creating spectacle. Many of the show's scenes are buttressed with cleverly-orchestrated background action: A sailor has his telescope fixed on Buttercup's buxom figure as she enters; the ship's crew produces small pocket-combs in preparing to receive a ship full of women; one particularly unhygienic sailor, who is unable to find a dancing partner, dances with a fish in a bonnet. Director Elaina Vrattos has inserted some memorable moments into the play...
...come to stud and go off to do something else. In 1910 the Birches move from Pasquotank to Raleigh, where matriarch Charlie Kate raises her daughter and granddaughter, practices medicine and becomes a Wake County legend: "Remember when she got Tessa Jerrod's arm out of the wringer? . . . Buttercup Spivey's dropped kidneys rose. Malcolm Taylor stopped wanting to scratch his missing leg. Everybody saw the miracles all around...