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...season advances, some long-standing patterns are about to be broken: the Hasty Pudding Theatricals will get serious, and the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, for the space of two performances, will go professional...
Professional leads will join another Harvard chorus this weekend as the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Society sings as chorus to the London Savoyards, a prestigious G&S ensemble on tour from England. After a Friday night engagement in Worcester, the Savoyards will descend on Sanders Theater (or theatre, depending on your loyalties) to perform selections from eight different operettas...
Though "any good school chorus would have done," according to John Parker Murdoch, director of the tour-sponsoring International Artists Series, he expresses pleasure at Harvard's "strong Gilbert and Sullivan tradition." The Harvard G & S singers till now have performed only inside the college or for patrons; the Savoyard encounter will mark their first big public engagement, says a group member...
...part of the same renovation effort, the Agassiz Theater will be remodeled in time for a November 9 Gilbert and Sullivan Society performance of "Pirates of Penzance...
...inflation fighter. Back midst the ivied halls of Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., where he was once dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and is now a professor of economics, Alfred Kahn, 63, has polished up his act. A robust bass, he regularly turns up in local Gilbert and Sullivan productions, playing the modern Major General in Pirates of Penzance, Ko-ko in The Mikado and Jack Point in Yeoman of the Guards. Asked to aid a local fund raiser, Kahn happily swapped his tweedy academic threads for the lounge-lizard's black tie. "It was more...