Word: hms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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University College is experiencing an upsurge of interest in the dramatic arts, and its newly-built campus theatre has facilities far superior to those provided at Harvard. Recent productions include HMS Pinafore, Shaw's Gentle People, and Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute. The director, a young and, not unexpectedly, bearded Englishman, felt satisfied with the calibre of the performers, but voiced the eternal plaint of the director in every land: his major problem was simply to remain solvent...
After an intermission the serious work of the evening begins with a male chorus of well-blended voices opening HMS Pinafore. Morely is back as Ralph Rack-straw and Miss Smith sheds her bridal veil for the gypsy dress of Buttercup. They are again quite good, with Miss Smith a little weak on the acting end and Morely too conscious of how his spoken words have sounded in other actors' interpretations. Edward Morse, on the other hand, cuts loose from D'Oyly-Carte's version to create an interestingly stiff and proper Sir Joseph. Paul Sperry, while a bit awkward...
...Willson, producer, director and conductor of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas locally has achieved another success in "HMS Pinafore, which is currently playing in Winthrop House Junior Common Room...
With the polish and lack of nervousness that comes with a second performance, "HMS Pinafore" will unquestionably be another resounding...