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Patience is not Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular play. Musically or textually it is also not their most sophisticated—not that the duo is known for complex dramatic exchanges as much as for pithy comic deliverance—but the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players latest production, though unpolished in its execution, effectively delivers the humor that has kept this somewhat unremarkable musical in frequent production...
Taking the form of traditional comic operetta, Patience parodies the Wildean Aestheticism rampant in late 19th century England. As the production notes indicate, there is an emphasis on “fads, fashion and faux-intellectualism...
...fact the costumes become a wonderfully effective tool in bolstering the comic elements of the play. When Bunthorne walks on stage with his beret, black turtleneck and absurd purple and black striped knickers or when the Dragoon Guards make their dramatic change in costume from military uniform to aesthete-in-training frocks, the audience can’t help but roar with laughter...
Past Class Day speakers have included Coretta Scott King in 1968, actor Rodney Dangerfield in 1978 and Mother Teresa in 1982. In 2000, comic Conan C. O’Brien ’85 delivered the address...
Franken, who rose to fame as a writer and actor on “Saturday Night Live” before becoming a bestselling author, on-air political satirist and Grammy-winning comic, said he was thrilled to be selected...