Word: mikados
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...important of the minor pleasures of life, and Harvard would be a spiritually poorer place without its G & S society. Like any company devoted to performing a canon of works over and over, some years it must forego the juiciest operas and stick with the second-rate. But The Mikado (even if it's not quite as good as Patience) is the traditional favorite, the old chestnut by which the rest are judged. Its production is like Hamlet at Stratford or Casablanca at the Brattle Square. This Mikado, though, is hardly a high point among recent G & S productions...
...lead in G & S operas are usually second in insipidity only to the straight female lead, and Fuller turned in one of the most successful recent performance in such a difficult, unrewarding role. Pooh-Bah (Scott Moe) was well performed, but not as satisfactory; like Peter Rogers's unfortunate Mikado and Crowley's otherwise fine Ko-Ko, his portrayal suffered from too much of an unctiousness that makes Gilbert and Sullivan seem like effete tomfoolery, overbred "veddy British" knockabout farce, instead of satirical light opera of the highest order...
...Mikado should be good, I guess--the Gilbert and Sullivan Players' productions usually are, and in this case the conductor is also nominally a Crimson photographer, although he admittedly hasn't taken a picture in about two years. Opens tonight at the Agassiz...
...tintype of some long forgotten grandparent. The comedy of manners that is Patience with its mild jabs at the military and the intellectual alike seems pale and watered-down today. The genius of G&S, when it appears in the show is only a shadow of the inspiration of Mikado or lolanthe Gaylin and Huessy have exploited every possible moment of great theater in the show and forced Patience to be memorable...
Warren Goldfarb as the Mikado seemed suited to reign over this ridiculous country, and made himself an integral part of the second act. The pacing never flagged, and the finale was strong and forceful. All told, it was a sterling performance of an old chestnut, one of the best this side of the Savoy...