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...rare to find a show where all of the principals are great—“H.M.S. Pinafore” nearly achieves just this.Noah Van Niel ’08 plays Ralph, a sailor who has fallen for the captain’s daughter Josephine (Chelsey J. Forbess ’07). In a comedy where most characters are cartoons, Van Niel portrays Ralph with sincerity and depth. He sings with feeling and a face that begs for sympathy, winning the hearts of the crew. Hill returns as Captain Corcoran, Commander of the H.M.S. Pinafore, another slightly ridiculous older...
...About a dozen students have already e-mailed CurrierWire—Currier’s e-mail open list—looking for an additional mattress or a larger replacement. “People are definitely more desperate for double beds lately,” Chelsey J. Forbess ’07 said. Patricia G. Pepper, the Currier House assistant to the Masters, has planned a group trip to Ikea for Currier residents, but she said the trip has nothing to do with mattress concerns. “We are sponsoring a trip to Ikea and if students want...
...drew out the absurdities just below the surface of Dickens’ melodrama. Indeed, this show wasn’t so much an adaptation of Dickens’ novel as it was a deconstruction of it. Nowhere was this more effective than in the dimwitted Lucy Manette (Chelsey J. Forbess ’07), who was the perfect incarnation of Dickens’ notoriously one-dimensional characters (“So does this mean that everyone can be a good person even if they don’t look like one on the surface?” she asks Darnay...
...This maturity and style in performance are certainly due to the LHO’s tradition of incorporating graduate students and professionals into the cast and crew. Every single performer, from conductor and pianist Harry Huff and the orchestra, to Macheath’s wife Polly Peachum (Chelsey J. Forbess ’07) and her “Barbara’s Song,” to Mrs. Peachum and her “Song of Sexual Dependency,” is a master of this music—which can be best described as “Cabaret?...
...most attractive animated female lion, however, is easy: Nala, Simba’s irresistible and sassy childhood playmate and later romantic counterpart in the Lion King. And the inspiration for Hollywood’s hottest lion lives in Currier House. When she was eight years old, Disney cast Chelsey Forbess ’07 as the voice of young Nala. But after she had recorded her lines, movie’s producers decided that Forbess’ voice sounded too much like that of co-star Jonathan Taylor Thomas ’01, who played young Simba, and they subsequently...