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...wedding an unknown bride before his execution. The rescue comes too late to prevent the marriage of Fairfax to Elsie, who was previously affianced to the jester Jack Point. Once escaped, Fairfax unhappily finds himself "free, yet in fetters held," and the plot begins to unravel in usual Gilbert and Sullivan fashion...
...blackmail, the jester is bound to end up with his head on the chopping block--quite a few gloomy aphorisms might be gleaned from The Yeomen of the Guard. If the show's music--with its operatic flourishes--is among Arthur Sullivan's grandest, the libretto certainly represents W.S. Gilbert at his most despondent...
...picture of life suggested by The Yeomen of the Guard is a somber one, it is superbly painted by the Gilbert and Sullivan Players in a production which surpasses even their own invariably high standards. The show begins slowly, unimpressively, as the groundwork of the plot is carefully laid. But the momentum picks up for good when Elsie (Ellen Burkhardt) and Jack Point (Terry Knickerbocker) team in a lovely duet that tells the sad tale of "the merryman and his maid ("I have a song to sing, O!"); in this evocatively staged number, lyrics, music, choreography and voices blend into...
These minor characters are not quite as pivotal or as interesting as in some other Gilbert and Sullivan operettas--there's nothing here to compare, for example, with the posturings of the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe or Katisha's ravings in The Mikado--but they still offer marvelous opportunities for comic mugging. Scott Meadow turns in a sharply defined performance as Wilfred Shadbolt, the "assistant tormentor" who eventually wins Phoebe's hand (but not her heart). A typical Gilbert and Sullivan "light heavy," Meadow's Wilfred is too ridiculously self-important and gullible to be really threatening. Carol Flynn also...
...wasn't aware that you had also assumed the function of college humorist. However, my particular complaint is about a notice that was definitely not funny. This item appeared on Saturday, April 10, under the heading of "Ethnic Purity." The notice announced that the Institute of Politics fellow Gilbert Carmichael and his former campaign manager were to speak about the "New South." The implication of the title, especially after the controversy over Jimmy Carter's use of that phrase, is that Carmichael and the rest of the "New South" are racist and/or are in reality supporters of racist policies...