Word: ko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although these songs are slow and evocative, they never wander or get lost in the background. In fact, only at the end with "Ko Ko Ku" does the music fail to capture and hold the listener's attention. This minor flaw occurs because the ambient music takes over and Anderson's voice becomes lost...
That synchronization is broken when the male chorus comes scrambling on in identical blue business suits. All the flurry and the coy comic extravagance of having Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner (Baritone James Billings), carry on like an insurance salesman who has been crushed beneath his quarterly projections set a pace that the singers cannot match. Whatever purists may have thought were its vulgarizations and deficiencies, Joseph Papp's Broadway presentation of The Pirates ofPenzance was all of a brassy piece. This Mikado is too fitful, too ambitious, perhaps-Dare we even whisper it, risking the rage...
...Oyly Carte tradition that Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, proscribe a modern villain or two in his first-act showstopper, I've Got a Little List. And sure enough, Baritone Alistair Donkin ticked off an added starter in his roll of "society offenders who might well be underground, and who never would be missed." Spinning impishly about the stage in much the same gyrations that the great Martyn Green had learned from Sir Henry Lytton (inherited by Lytton from the original Ko-Ko, George Grossmith, who had learned his stage business from Director W.S. Gilbert himself...
Alas, it was Ko-Ko himself who would be missed by sorrowful G&S fans in England and the U.S. (where the troupe made its first tour in 1879-80, for the premiere of Pirates of Penzance). Last week, after more than a century of continuous operation as a troupe, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company gave its last performance and disbanded. In the end there were not enough Savoyard loyalists to pay the costs of a 100-member company. The Arts Council of Great Britain, hard pressed to subsidize the National Theater and the Old Vic, rejected...
Harvard's other two entrants, juniors Jackie Corrigan and Lisa Harrison, got KO'd in the third and fourth rounds, respectively...