Word: operettas
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There are noticeably no women on stage at the start of the operetta and when they do shuffle in, flapping their fans and rustling their pastel kimonos, it is a relief to see them...
STRIKE UP THE BAND (Nonesuch/Elektra). This Gershwin pseudo-operetta folded in tryouts in 1927 despite such standards as The Man I Love and the title song. Radically reconceived in 1930, it then featured I've Got a Crush on You and still funny satirical ditties. Neither book is good enough to hold the stage these days, but both scores are meticulously sung in a new recording, invaluable to musical buffs. A high spot: tap numbers that capture the clatter and swish of each individual shoe...
...subtitle of Ruddigore, the latest production of the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, is "The Witch's Curse," but there is nothing evil about this charming operetta. With the help of a funny script, an engaging plot, excellent acting and singing, Ruddigore delivers an evening of great fun at the Agassiz Theater...
...coronation came last fall with her Metropolitan Opera debut as Gilda in Rigoletto, the season's major event. "Ah, she is beautiful!" croons Pavarotti, her co-star. "So tall! And she has beautiful musicality, beautiful voice, beautiful phrasing." Leonard Bernstein, who chose Anderson for the new recording of his operetta Candide, likens her to Jennie Tourel, among others, in "the sense of vocal color, of the dramatic use of technique and the endless drive to work hard...
True, the ostensible reasons for the invasion were mostly phony: there was no danger to the canal; the White House itself had originally laughed off Noriega's "declaration of war"; Bush's flowery defense of American womanhood, based on a single murky episode of rude remarks, belongs in an operetta. True, Noriega's thuggery and drug connections didn't much bother anyone in the White House until Michael Dukakis (remember him?) decided to make an issue of them in 1988. True, the invasion will have no impact on the drug war anyway. True, there were less bloody ways to remove...