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...delicate bawdry. Not surprisingly, the co-author of the libretto is a storyteller of no mean skill, Larry L. King, an accomplished journalist who wrote a compact account of the actual facts underlying Whorehouse after they occurred. To tell it as it is in the show, a rural community, Gilbert, has long tolerated, secretly relished, and certainly patronized a venerable bordello run in a rectitudinous fashion that would be the envy of most private-school headmasters today. Governors, Senators and mayors unwind from the cares of office in the chambers of the Chicken Ranch, as the place is known from...
...tell Harvard how to manage its endowment. Rather, we are simply demanding that the University practice what it preaches. Far from hurting its ability to pursue its academic goals, Harvard's divestiture of its South African holdings will enhance its academic reputation and its ability to teach its students. Gilbert Fleitas...
...production's only real weakness lies in the unsatisfying finale. Presented "just as Gilbert wrote it," the ending seems forced, almost hurried, although Bonn tries to lessen the perfunctory note with sensitive staging. Hannah's prominent grief, for example, nicely mitigates the atmosphere of mechanical, happily-ever-after celebration. Nevertheless, the production could have punched or prolonged the moment--brought in the chorus, perhaps, to ooh and ah as Robin explains how he's "broken" the curse...
...clumsiness of the finale, however, barely tarnishes the polish of the entire show. As Robin lifts the jinx on the Murgatroyds, so this G&S production lifts the jinx on the opera itself. This Ruddigore is almost perfect--worth seeing twice. The Gilbert and Sullivan Players have done it again, and nobody does it better...
...disastrous opening night caused Gilbert's and Sullivan's Ruddigore to become known as "the unlucky opera." Harvard, however, is lucky to have it, thanks to a particularly fine production by the Gilbert and Sullivan players. As we've been telling you for two weeks now, it's both a supernatural opera and a melodramatic satire. It teems with mad love-sick girls and baronets in disguise and family curses and portraits that come to life. Despite the absence of the celebrated Gilbert and Sullivan social wit and a rather abrupt finale, the show is as visually dazzling...