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...cast wields an almost embarrassing richness of personality, and under the musical direction of Julia S. Carey ’09, Arthur Sullivan’s daunting melodicism is terrifically realized. Gilbert and Sullivan operas are always wordy, and this dual satire of 19th century English society and limited liability companies—replete with now-obscure references to parliamentary legislation and Hawaiian princesses—is no exception...
...course, English customs and governmental procedures are completely alien to Paramount, and so he enlists the aid of his eldest daughter, Princess Zara (Charlotte Munson, another great singer), who returns from school in England and brings with her four representatives of English society to help Utopia along in its transformation...
...Princess Kalyba (Megan M. Savage ’10), Goldbury and Dramaleigh burst into song with “Then I may sing and play.” The reason you should sleep with us, they tell the princesses, is because that’s what any proper English woman would...
...Joan of Arc languished in margins of French history before she was revived as a nationalist symbol in the late 19th Century. Having been called by God to expel the invading English from France during the Hundred Years War, as the story goes, the teenage saint was later appropriated as a symbol of the disputed province of Lorraine during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-1. The discovery of the false relics would also have added weight to the public campaign to canonize St. Joan, launched in 1869 by the Bishop of Orl?ans. As for the unlikely materials used...
...line of those applying for citizenship, would have to pay heavy fines for the years they have been in the country, would have to show that they have held a job while here, and would have to pay full back taxes on their earnings and pass an English exam. And in a major departure from U.S. immigration policy as it has existed since 1965, the plan would do away with citizenship for their family members...