Word: gilbertian
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Dennis Crowley, back once again to sing the patter song, is another familiar face. Crowley has somewhat less to do as Major General Stanley than he did as the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe, but he carries the part off with the same Gilbertian quizzicality that has marked his previous successes. His rendering of the difficult patter song is excellent, with every word--well, just about every word--clearly audible...
...overwhelms any deficiencies in her acting. By contrast, Linda Anne Kirwan is a gifted comedienne, handling the part of Pheobe with real comic flair and singing well, if less vigorously than her rival. Roberto Gaston makes an extraordinarily winning Fairfax, with his broad toothy grin, strong tenor and charming Gilbertian sense of the absurd...
Unlike some of the other members of the cast, the Lord Chancellor (Dennis Crowley) is at his best in the dialogue sections--his voice clear, sardonic and genuinely Gilbertian. He catches the verbal nuances with the skill of a born Savoyard and manages to be not only a buffoon and a figure of pathos, but, when necessary, a commanding Lord in his own right. The only flaw in Crowley's performance is that his voice is not quite as strong as it might be--never powerful enough to belt out a line that needs belting out. Nonetheless, he traverses...
...heard were guffaws from the gallery. Surely this was a farce, with its soldier hero who carries chocolates instead of cartridges, its recently-civilized Bulgarians who wash their hands "nearly every day"--something worthy of the satirist W. S. Gilbert. In oppressive Folkestone Shaw is trembling with literary indignation. Gilbertian! Hhmmph...
...IMPRESARIO, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and COX AND BOX, by Sir Arthur Sullivan with a non-Gilbertian librettist whose name escapes me, but whose story reaches its climax when Cox learns that Box does not have a strawberry mark on his ear. "Then you are my long-lost brother!" he cries delightedly. Conducted by Gerald Moshell. Opens tonight at 8:30 in the Cabot Hall Living Room...