Word: milkmaid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gilbert and Sullivan satire it is the aesthetes who so carefully buttoned their sleeves in the last half of the last century who are being so obviously but fondly mocked. Bunthorne, the hero, is a parody of Oscar Wilde or Swinburne; Patience is the name of the simple village milkmaid he adores. In the G & S society spring production, director P.D. Setlzer should put the cute couplets, scores of lovesick maidens and happy endings to good use. Performances are at the Agassiz Theater in Radcliffe Yard tonight through Sunday and also next weekend at 8 p.m. Tickets...
...true G & S, is a satire and in this operetta what is being so obviously but fondly mocked is the aesthetes who so carefully buttoned their sleeves in Victorian England. Banthorne, the hero, is a parody of Oscar Wilde or Swinburne; Patience is the name of the simple village milkmaid he adores...
...indeed? Yet much of the Track's success lies in the inherent shock of seeing a hefty male wrapped in a chiffon skirt dancing on point. "In Coppelia, I must be the biggest milkmaid in the world," concedes 6-ft. 2-in. Natch Taylor, 27, whose stage personae are Suzina La Fuzziovitch and Alexis Ivanovitch Lermontov...
...Marquise Milkmaid. This coquette of Versailles, with a pound of powder and pomade on her hair, ended up in moccasins on farms outside Albany, making cider, bending over the family laundry and rising at 3 a.m. to milk the cows. One evening her old friend Talleyrand strolled unannounced into the yard as she prepared a roast. Bringing a touch of Parisian gallantry to wilderness New York, he cried: "Never was a leg of mutton spitted with greater majesty...