Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...playwright is not unlike that of the master criminal. Before acting, each must construct a well-conceived, meticulous plan, tightly bound together, without any loose ends. In the case of Softly Stealing, the new Kirkland House musical, the mastermind is that of Tom Fuller '74 of Harvard's Gilbert and Sullivan fame, and the plot rocks with enough surprising twists and turns to be worthy of the reputation of Edward Sable, its notorious but good-hearted Victorian robber hero...
...father, who comes from a German-Mexican family, is a guitarist who sang Mexican songs to his four children when they were little. (Gilbert Ronstadt's name appears with Linda's and that of her friend Bass Player Kenny Edwards as co-author of Lo Siento Mi Vida on the album Hasten Down the Wind...
Married. David Carradine, 36, film actor (Bound for Glory) and son of saturnine-visaged Movie Veteran John; and Linda Gilbert, 27, of Malibu, Calif.; in Munich, where Carradine has been making an Ingmar Bergman film (see CINEMA). Both Carradine and Gilbert had been married before, she to Roger McGuinn, founder of the rock group the Byrds...
...firm finds the work not as interesting as he supposed, he might sit and moan that he should have pursued that dream of being an artist in Paris after all. But if the law student is named Tom Fuller '74 and if he has played the lead in the Gilbert and Sullivan shows for years then instead of idling away his time with wishful thinking, he sits down and writes a play. Softly Speaking, to be performed at Kirkland House March 3-5 with music by Gerald Moshell is the product of Tom Fuller's law firm summer...
Patience, the spring Gilbert and Sullivan production to be performed late in April, is certainly no adaptation. The cute couplets, scores of love sick maidens, and happy endings could only have sprung from the brows of the illustrious two. Yet Patience, like any true G & S, is a satire and in this operetta what is being so obviously but fondly mocked is the aesthetes who so carefully buttoned their sleeves in Victorian England. Banthorne, the hero, is a parody of Oscar Wilde or Swinburne; Patience is the name of the simple village milkmaid he adores...