Word: operettas
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...operetta, which presents a fantastical and ultimately dismissive view of feminism and women’s education, is particularly relevant in light of the recent controversy that has rocked the university regarding President Lawrence H. Summers’ remarks on women and science...
Henry's father had been a successful operetta librettist, and as a young man Henry hoped to become a playwright, but he took a job with TIME as a copyboy while earning a degree at New York University. What began as a temporary measure turned out to be a destiny. "I realized in due course that the theater was not really my calling," he once said, "but that journalism--which of course can be theatrical--indeed was." His rise was suitably dramatic. At 28, he became senior editor and 17 years later, in 1968, managing editor. Very quickly, the magazine...
...Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan could have hardly imagined their most beloved operetta The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty as performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players under the direction of Ashley A.P. Horan ’05. It is a delightful romp of song and dance, with a flamboyant (and let us not forget, glitter-chest) Pirate King who immediately calls to mind images of Captain Jack Sparrow...
Gilbert and Sullivan’s light-hearted operetta of duty, sentimental orphan pirates, cowardly police and love is brought to a different level of wild comedy with the personal interpretations in characterization, particularly by actors in secondary roles. Ben Engle, a senior at the Boston Conservatory who plays the Pirate King is the most memorable part of the cast. From his entrance, Engle was overwhelmingly significant, in part due to his tall frame and strong stage presence, but more so for his outrageously affected behavior and heavy eye make...
...frequency that the Harvard-Radcliff Gilbert & Sullivan Players stage The Pirates of Penzance (every four to five years) speaks of the wide appeal of the operetta, the sold out audiences speak as loudly to the ability of this particularly gifted cast...