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More than 30 students and striking employees of H.A. Hovey Corporation Harvard's main supplier of dairy products picketed in front of the Freshman Unions yesterday from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., demanding that the University stop doing business with the Cambridge based distributor of institutional food...
...Colonel Fairfax, Donald Hovey also stands out. An unusually complex role among Gilbert and Sullivan leading tenors, Fairfax begins as a thoroughly sympathetic character. But by the end of the operetta, he becomes a callous rake, and his marriage to the strolling singer Elsie Maynard leaves two characters heart-broken: Phoebe and Jack Point, the jester who loves Elsie...
...Hovey handles this transformation prudently, choosing not to act out a drastic change of character, instead letting the circumstances around him shape his metamorphosis. His easy command of Gilbert's dialogue renders his earnest, deadpan performance natural and often slyly comical. Hovey uses his strong, sweet tenor to a similar end, mocking ever so slightly his heartwrenchingly serious solos...
...Hovey C. Clark San Francisco...
...just too long. Even Derek Bok's kid was fidgeting alongside the old man as the show wearied into its third hour. And some of the choreography--the term may be too lofty--suggests John Travolta more than a Japanese noble. But the leads are all good. Donald Hovey's Nanki-Poo is bereft and expressive. Paul O'Neill's Pooh-Bah is engaging and suitably gorged, if a little stock. Dennis Crowley, as the Lord High Executioner is the spitting image of Alfred E. Neumann, and reacts to this madness just as the old man would, reeling...