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THIS IS not to say that there are not some bright spots in Yeomen, of course, or to imply that the G & S Players have not taken advantage of them. Much of Yeomen's semitragic ending exists merely as a vehicle for the lyrical tragic love duet. "I Have a Song to Sing, Oh", and Karl Deirup and Chalyce Brown carry it off movingly. Deirup's expressive little mime during the number is unusually effective, quite touching really. Brown's voice is in top form for her part...
...Boheme. Set Designer Paul Shortt's floating clouds, silver rain and heavenly chariots were magically effective. The double Diana switched her sex with dazzling ease, garnering great applause from Cincinnati's sophisticates-and some rather hysterical giggles from startled youngsters who came unprepared for a lesbian love duet. "R.T.J...
...Maria is mercurial and passionate, offering Sills an ideal opportunity to display her gift for developing a character. In her first scene, Sills is a sweet-voiced lark of a girl enjoying the open sky and the fragrant fields. Moments later she is off on a rapturous, throaty love duet with the Earl of Leicester, making Donizetti's elaborately wrought roulades and cantilenas sound as natural as a lullaby...
...same par, although one or two ("Remember the Mania," "Sit Down and Take a Stand") seemed to me not far enough removed from the patriotic foot-stomping of a John Wayne television special for their own good. The show is not without its bland spots, though--particularly, the love duet "Patriotically Yours"--and there is one song, a lovely little lament for the trivia of fifties' childhood, that would look out out of place in all but the most winsome of entertainments...
...pervasive use of violin in most of their music is effective, whether in duet with a flute carrying an easy, pretty melody, or in an introduction to a piece developing a theme strongly reminiscent of Bach...