Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VOLTS-GILBERT BÉCAUD (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.).* Sizzling Frenchman Bécaud, who often composes his own songs, sings his recent splash hit, Sound and Sea, in this international variety show. Also featured: Singers João Gilberto (Brazil) and Lill Lindfors (Sweden...
Princess Ida is typical Gilbert and Sullivan, stereotypical in fact. After the play opened at the Savoy in 1884, Sullivan fled to London. From France he declared that his score had a disquieting "family resemblance" to his previous work and that only by abjuring the musical comedy form altogether could he progress as a composer. Gilbert, characteristically less concerned with posterity, was nonetheless so moved by his collaborator's threats and supplications that he put aside the pedestrian libretto on which he was working to write what eventually was produced as the Mikado...
Still, to anyone with an ear for Gilbert and Sullivan, Princess Ida can be a completely delightful evening. Although the production of the show which opened at Agassiz last night failed to achieve even this circumscribed end it was always pleasantly theatrical--if this or any other word can suggest the pagentry which attends the most humble G&S composition...
...characters, with the exception of Gilbert's rather savage self-portrait, King Gama, are splendidly familiar. The marshal chorus, sometimes seen as a patrol of bobbies, sometimes as a well-buckled line of officers consists of the three sons of King Gama, Neil Fairbairn, William Baker and Ted Rau: wonderful as a trio of bass clarinets. The expected Friends of the Suitor are played with tolerable alacrity by John B. McKean and David Evitts. As for the suitor himself, Hilarion, his name is, nothing more need be said than that Danius Turek is filling an accustomed role with acustomed accomplishment...
Missilery & Mouth. Missilery, muscle and mouth are the keys to the Rangers' resurgence. Jean Ratelle, Rod Gilbert and Vic Hadfield constitute the deadliest line in the league. Center Ratelle has 30 goals and 45 assists, ranks No. 2 in the league in scoring (behind Chicago's Stan Mikita). Right Wing Gilbert trails Ratelle by one goal; and Left Wing Hadfield, who missed a fifth of the season with a broken shoulder, has contributed 19 goals and 19 assists. For muscle, there is Reggie Fleming, a stocky "bad boy" who has spent 122 minutes in the penalty...