Word: kosh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soloists, Danius Turek (Fairfax) and Jennifer Kosh (Elsie) had the best voices; their singing made Sullivan's score sound like the more-than-respectable operatic music it is. Norma Levin's Phoebe was marred by singing that borrowed too much from the coyness of musical comedy. However, her acting more than made up for her vocal failings Mary Duffy as Dame Carruthers was, with the Yeomen, the only real musical disappointment of the evening. Totally oblivious to rhythm, projection, conductor, and pitch, she barely got through her own number and came near to ruining the ensembles in which she took...
...sure whether Stephen Michaels, who plays Strephon, is miscast, or has simply been directed for all the laughs he's worth. Whichever, Strephon does not emerge as the creation of Gilbert and Sullivan. Jennifer Lee Kosh as Phyllis, however, ultimately succeeds although she seems more suited to character roles than heroines...