Word: moulan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollis-"Patience." One of best of the Gilbertian series, with the regular Civic Light Opera cast including Frank Moulan, William Danforth, and Vivian Hart. Opening Monday...
...Frank Moulan, as the Executioner, is even cleverer, if less Gilbertian. A wizened-eyed little wisp of a man, he capers about constantly, kicking up such a breeze with his furious fanning that he all but blows himself into the wings. He takes frequent encores by singing the most irreverent variations on the text, translating "The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tra-La" into every dialect but the Scandinavian. He expands the patter-song "I've Got a Little List" to include the more recent nuisances. Even in Gilbert's day this song was progressively altered to include...