Word: operettas
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...thiop, which ran this weekend in the Agassiz Theatre, dates from 1812 and ranked as one of the most successful operettas in America until the Civil War. Given its period, it was no surprise to find that it’s horribly dated—the type of show where men ponder “the benefits and liabilities of having a strong-willed wife” in song. As such, it was difficult to know if we, the modern audience, were laughing with the production or at it—did those 19th-century viewers guffaw...
...digging in the bowels of Widener before they could produce the play. Somehow, while searching Hollis, Musical and Orchestral Restorer Victor Fell Yellin ’49 discovered that one keyboard score of the show had survived there all this time. He went on to restore the operetta for this production, and did a winning job. Moreover, the work was remarkably well executed by Music Director Marisa W. Green ’04, who rose above the well-known difficulties of working with a hastily assembled orchestra...
Lithgow sang on stage for the first time in a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, his first taste of musical drama foreshadowing future appearances on Broadway...
...SORCEROR. The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players promise to transform the Agassiz Theatre into the parodied Victorian England of The Sorceror. The duo’s first full-length operetta, also known as “The Elixir of Love,” follows “John Wellington Wells, a dealer in magic and spells” as he causes mayhem with his love potions in true Gilbert and Sullivan style. Though the show pokes fun at the outdated Victorian values of its time, the fresh and lighthearted score can still charm and entertain modern audiences. Through Saturday...
...SORCERER. The Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players promise to transform the Agassiz Theatre into the parodied Victorian England of “The Sorcerer.” The duo’s first full-length operetta, also known as “The Elixir of Love,” follows “John Wellington Wells, a dealer in magic and spells” as he causes mayhem with his love potions in true Gilbert and Sullivan style. Though the show pokes fun at outdated Victorian values, the fresh and lighthearted score can still charm and entertain modern audiences...