Word: gilberte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sophomore--unable to tell a master electrician from a technical director, unaware of what happens when a show is cast--viscerally reviewing a play he or she had clearly never read or even seen before. It may not make a great deal of difference in the case of a Gilbert and Sullivan or Hasty Pudding show, both organizations sport blindly loyal followers generally impervious to reviews, but a bad Crimson review can often destroy the potential audience for a Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid or House production, and even for some kinds of Loeb mainstage shows the impact is significant...
...Harvard a hodge-podge of theatrical groups exists, and yet the actual phases of production display a remarkable similarity across the board. If a critic wants to write truly knowledgeable reviews, that critic must begin with the institutional structures that fund theater at Harvard: the House drama societies, the Gilbert and Sullivan Board, the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and at the Loeb Drama Center, the University itself. In the main it is the student portion of these structures which decides who is to produce and direct what play, with what budget, and on what dates during...
...RUTH M. GILBERT...
H.M.S. PINAFORE, by Sir Arthur Sullivan and Sir William Schwenk Gilbert. An outstanding production of a very funny opera. 8:30 p.m. at Agassiz...
...TEETH OF MONS HERBERT, by Philip LaZebnick '75, sounds like another very funny show, but not quite like Gilbert and Sullivan. More like a cross between Groucho Marx and Cole Porter. I haven't seen it, however, 8:30 p.m. at Lowell House...