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...have invited Kitty (Kris Alexander) and Amy (Abigail Shapiro) to lunch in order to propose to them. Charley's aunt, the pretext for inviting the girls, sends word that she can't come. Through a Plot Machination and an Incredible Coincidence, the boys find a substitute "aunt": their friend Fancourt (Adam L. Schwartz) in full drag. A Plot Machination or two later, both Jack's father, Sir Francis (Billy Salloway) and the girls' guardian, Spettigue (Jon Hill) arrive, and both take a shine to the "aunt." Things get worse from there...
With the exception of Glenn Burris, the Caliph, the other performers match Drake's buoyancy very well. Henry Calvin plays the Wazir of Police with a cheerful ghoulishness reminiscent of Fancourt's Mikado. In "Was I Wazir," with an accompaniment wisely lifted from Wonderful Town rather than In Central Asia,Calvin has one of the best bits in the show. Joan Diener, as the Wazir's crrant wife, is sultry and sarcastic, with a figure to please even the most myopic in the second balcony. With comic relish, she joins Drake in the slaughter of a smutty little horror called...
Died. Darrell Fancourt, 65, famed British D'Oyly Carte bass-baritone, best known for his title role in Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado, which he sang more than 3,000 times; in London...
...Gilbert and Sullivan performance can only be compared to another Gilbert and Sullivan performance, and, this three-week program is very likely the best that will be in Boston for a good while. The cast includes such veteran savoyards as Darrell Fancourt and Martyn Green, who have been with D'Oyly Carte for 30 to 28 years respectively. Fancourt, as the guffawing pirate king, is heartily delightful, and all that can be said in criticism of Green is that his part is not large enough. As Major-General Stanley, he gets several of the best songs in the play...
...Darrell Fancourt was a properly grotesque, and villainous Dick Deadeye, but that was to be expected. Most surprising was the performance of Thomas Round as Ralph Rackstraw. In less able hands, this role can become just another callow juvenile, latched onto the plot to take care of the male side of the love interest, and for little other purpose. But Round didn't devote himself to a simple display of his fine voice--he added a mature and well-constructed characterization that made his part more than just that of First Tenor...