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...steers clear of political as well as personal problems in their patter: "Hallelujah Baby, about black-white relations in the U.S., never got an ending, somehow...we had to keep changing it as the front pages changed." Though Comden and Green are to be respected for not indulging in gossip or trying to play up themselves by playing off others, perhaps this matured, mellowed presentation makes their show too smooth, too digestible...
BACKING UP the cast, the orchestra does a yeoman-like job of performing Sullivan's score. Aside from Point and Elsie's ballad, the best numbers in the show include Point's cynical patter song ("Oh a private buffoon is a light-hearted loon"), "Were I thy bride," during which Phoebe dallies with Wilfred while her father steals his keys, and "A man who would woo a fair maid," Fairfax's own testament to his success as a lover...
Pirates of Penzance. The very model of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, featuring one of their most famous patter songs and centering on the paradoxical plight of poor Frederick, a young man only five years...
Pirates of Penzance. The very model of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, featuring one of their most famous patter songs and centering on the paradoxical plight of poor Frederick, a young man only five years old. Presented by the Boston Light Opera Company, at Madeleine Lee Theatre, 140 Clarendon St., through March. Performances Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday...
...bouncy, exuberant man with a cherubic Irish face and a floppy lock of prematurely gray hair, Moynihan, 48, has a well-developed ability to both charm and infuriate. Walking down a corridor, he can pick up a retinue with a nonstop monologue of patter, pontification and wisecracks ("If the U.N. didn't exist, it would be impossible to invent...