Word: operettas
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...year's more beguiling surprises. It is not at all the sort of thing one expects from Leigh, the very sober creator of films like Naked and Secrets and Lies, for it is basically the story--somewhat comic, somewhat desperate, very carefully detailed--of rehearsing and putting on the operetta...
...Whether making a rap out of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, belting out a song about red shoes in Swedish, or fashioning an ode to dinosaur puke, the Redundant Steaks struggle to come up with songs appropriate for their titles. In reference to the two songs entitled "Missing Buddha" (one Angry, one Dyslexic), Vaux warns: "We couldn't come up with lyrics for that random title, so we just did some Indian improv... I wouldn't bother listening to those; they're very painful and long...
...Note to the orchestra: although the singers are the focus of the operetta, you are in no way exempt from this urging to pump up the volume: you're a moderatesized band that sounds equally wonderful playing cheery patter accompaniment or swoony love-arias, but can the second-guessed entrances and just...
Aside from simple increased audience enjoyment, this need for enunciation is vital to any production of Gilbert and Sullivan: the story of the operetta, in true G. and S. style, is a convoluted tale of mistaken identities and star-crossed lovers that can only be understood when it is clearly and resoundingly sung by its main players. To summarize: it seems that years ago the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro had promised their daughter Casilda to an infant heir who was subsequently kidnapped but later found to be living as a gondolier in Venice. The operetta opens...
Members of the audience, which filled Sanders, were dressed in duct tape garb, threw paper airplanes and chanted phrases such as "Ig, Ig, Ig," at various moments throughout the evening. An operetta titled "La Forza del Duct Tape" was performed in three parts...