Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HARVARD Gilbert and Sullivan Players have carted out the old sets, hoisted the sails, and launched yet another H.M.S. Pinafore onto the very receptive waters of the public. Like the countless productions of Gilbert and Sullivan's charmer that have preceded this one, it finds an audience predisposed in its favor, ready to accept it uncritically...
...These Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are delightful little bonbons, really. They appeal to the Anglophile in all of us. Like the imported BBC television shows so popular today, they prey on the transatlantic inferiority complex that leaves most Americans rolling their eyes at anyone who flashes a British accent. The Loeb production unashamedly squeezes every drop out of this tendency, even playing "God Save the Queen" before the overture...
...really can't blame the people involved in this production for reducing Sir William Gilbert's venomous social satire to the level of Broadway musical comedy. That's happened over the decades, and there's nothing any single director can do to change it. Audiences want their G & S lovable, and until someone comes along to persuade them otherwise, that's the way they...
...even after its teeth have been pulled, Gilbert and Sullivan can be wonderfully entertaining--if the musicians and cast put everything they've got into the invigorating score. The Pinafore at the Loeb, despite its abundance of musical and dramatic talent, just doesn't have the energy. It's as though the Gilbert and Sullivan Players took one look at the old standard, let out a long sigh, and resigned themselves to cranking out a competent show, nothing more...
However, with the expected publication of new, more relaxed guidelines, no one seems to know whether the Cambridge ordinance applies to the stricter 1976 rules or to the looser 1978 strictures. Nor do scientists agree on the justification for the new guidelines. While Walter Gilbert '53. American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, hails the new guidelines as considerably more sensible than in the past, dissident scientists like Jonathan King, professor of microbiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says the new guidelines are based not on new scientific evidence but on scientists' lobbying against restrictive guidelines...