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Quist did well enough in his boarding schoolclasses to enter the more prestigious tracks ofmath and physics, but academics were not hisprimary concern. "I was convinced that I wouldjust hang out and drive my dad's car," he says.Then he joined a production of Gilbert andSullivan's The Mikado, an this involvementgave him a new attitude. "I was amazed at how allthese people working together could create a showthat an audience would enjoy, how all this effortcould...
...that promised to shed some light on precisely such cross-cultural nuances; nor even that they were more or less ensuring -- if the principle were to be applied fairly -- that most Asian-American actors would have to sit around in limbo and wait for the next production of The Mikado. They were also raising some highly intriguing questions. How can John Gielgud play Prospero when Doug Henning is at hand? Should future Shakespeares -- even future August Wilsons -- stock their plays with middle-class whites so as to have the largest pool of actors from which ( to choose? And next time...
...trademarks of a Peter Sellars production are that it's fresh, different, full of gags and surprises. Sellars did The Mikado with a character vrooming around on a motorcycle, and he set Handel's Orlando at the Kennedy Space Center. But a question remains: Do the elegant and aristocratic operas of Mozart really need to be jazzed up, gagged up, camped up and wrestled into the postmodern...
...stage to explain that Ida has run out on her engagement to Prince Hilarion. His amusing gestures and grimaces demonstrate why he has been the mainstay of several Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players' shows. Bamberger most recently starred as King Pooh-Ba in the fall production of The Mikado...
Aficionados of lighting effects might be a bit disappointed by the production. But between pertinent parody and near-perfect performance, The Mikado is definitely worth seeing...