Word: operetta
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...might be over, but fear not: on April 6, the revered Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players (HRG&SP) will open their annual spring production, a show that consistently has one of the largest budgets in the campus theatrical world. This year’s feature is a farcical operetta entitled “The Yeomen of the Guard,” which will run at the Agassiz Theatre. HRG&SP produce one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s 14 operettas per semester, replaying shows every four years...
...Yeomen of the Guard.” The Dunster House resident has been instrumental to the show at every point in its production, from being one of the people who chose “Yeomen” as this season’s Gilbert and Sullivan operetta right down to designing its publicity posters. Maloney left Decatur, AL for the bright lights and big city of Cambridge, MA with little more than unsatisfied curiosity about the ways of the theater and a vague desire to learn more. She didn’t have to wait long before the world...
Granted, one of the happy couples formed at the end of the operetta is composed of a living woman and a ghost. This and other ghastly touches, as well as deftly comic performances, prevent “Ruddigore” from becoming entirely bogged down in its origins...
...building up for our 50th anniversary next fall, we figured it would be a great time to do ‘Ruddigore’ again,” says Casey M. Lurtz, ’07, one of the show’s three producers. The operetta was last performed in 2001 and was also the first show that the G&S Players ever produced—running it again takes the society fill circle.Jennifer A. Bloom ’07, the G&S historian, says that “we did a little known production last spring...
...Though Director Robert Wise (West Side Story) has made capital of the show's virtues, he can do little to disguise its faults. In dialogue, song and story, Music still contains too much sugar, too little spice ... [The film's] gem?tlich heart tugs make a Lehar operetta seem grimly realistic by comparison. Viewers who want a movie to swell around them in big, warm blobs will find Sound of Music easy to take. Sterner types may resist at the outset but are apt to loosen up after a buoyant, heels-in-the-air song or two by Julie Andrews. Seconding...