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While this production promises to deliver the characteristic Gilbert and Sullivan humor style that the composers’ fans know and love, “Yeomen” is noteworthy for its new delivery of a Victorian-era story...
...singer whose commitment is questionable: she is already engaged to a jester named Jack Point (Samuel Gale Rosen ’06). Fairfax’s rather blatant admirer, Phoebe Meryll (Jessica G. Peritz ’06) helps him to escape and hijinks ensue in typical Gilbert and Sullivan style with some surprising twists at the finale...
...that this is “not [her] style” and that she sought to “take the story that’s offered… on its own terms.” Myhrum suggests that this approach both exposes the ever-appreciated comic chaos of Gilbert and Sullivan’s work and the beauty of a script that “does something to get in touch with human emotion,” she says...
...more, the show casts the Tower of London as a puppet, lending a slightly off-beat vibe to the show. As HRG&SP President Casey M. Lurtz ’07 notes, ““Yeomen of the Guard” is the closest Gilbert & Sullivan [came] to a serious dramatic work.” The variety and hilarity in “Yeomen” promise to make it an exciting production...
...stage will be just about the only place where Margaret D. Maloney ’06 won’t play a leading role in the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ production of “The Yeomen of the Guard.” The Dunster House resident has been instrumental to the show at every point in its production, from being one of the people who chose “Yeomen” as this season’s Gilbert and Sullivan operetta right down to designing its publicity posters. Maloney left Decatur...