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...Hamlet plot has always been an archetypal sources for playwrights. As diverse writers as Goethe (Clavigo), Chekhov (Seagull), W.S. Gilbert (who wrote a play let in which Rosencrantz and Ophelia are secret lovers). Philip LaZebnik '75 (whose Mad About Mintz not only parodies Hamlet but is riddled with themes of death), and Paris Barclay '78 (whose ambitious though now moribund production of Niccolo & The Prince featured Hamlet as a major--character), all have pirated shamelessly from Shakespeare...
...other, possibly because social mores remain remarkably constant. One may demur at Adapter Tony Harrison's decision to render the entire play in rhyming couplets. While these are agile and clever, they are somewhat distracting to an ear attuned to English prose in the theater. A hint of Gilbert and Sullivan enters the playgoer's mind and lightens what should essentially be a dark comedy. Leaving that aside, the redcoats have come with another triumph to their Broadway beachhead . ∙ T.E.K...
...bring you to your feet, I guess, It's an eclectic as it should be--the first-act finale is vaguely reminiscent of "Another Opening, Another Show" from Kiss Me, Kate, and I'm told there's also a direct quotation from an all but totally obscure pre-Gilbert opera by Sir Arthur Sullivan--but the tunes aren't very memorable, and O'Donnell's lyrics ("We're not exactly in Utopia. Our queen could scarcely be dopier") don't seem up to the rest of his script, either. In the second act, the silliness of having songs...
...soon was showing up for every rehearsal, an unheard of thing for an accompanist to do. That led to an offer for the next fall to be associate music director with John Posner for Fiorello!, a Grant-In-Aid production, which led to an offer this spring from the Gilbert and Sullivan board, to be music director of Princess...
...rehearsal the next night is for the chorus. Thirteen basses, tenors, altos and sopranos are huddled at one end of Shannon in a semicircle around Krag and the piano. Jay Banks, a Gilbert and Sullivan "groupie," is the accompanist. He's a small man, with brown hair, a brown beard, brown rimmed glasses, and a penchant for bright colored turtlenecks. He's a physics major at Harvard and has been involved in a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan shows, often unofficially. He has no part in Princess Ida but he comes to most of the rehearsals and often gives Krag...