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...performances. As Colonel Calverley, the leader of a troop of dragoons whose fiancees have all fallen in love with the poet Bunthorne. William Propp wins over the audience from his first entrance. In one toothy grin, he can look mischievous and still hopelessly bemused, and he handles the perilous patter-song without missing a beat. Carmen's basic idea for staging this number--a list of the ingredients that go into a heavy dragoon--is original and witty: the Colonel sings it on his soldiers' shoulders, lending new meaning to the phrase "heavy dragoon...
...here: throughout the song, the dragoons bounce up and down in rhythm, grimace and moan under the Colonel's weight, and end up overwhelming Propp's noble effort. The chorus's distraction in this scene is especially regrettable because the Players have added a sensational new verse to the patter-song in which Gilbert's original recipe--including "the pluck of Lord Nelson on board of the Victory" and "the humor of Fielding (which sounds contradictory)"--is supplemented by additives like "the biceps of Ryan O'Neal" and "the eyeballs of Kermit the Frog...
...prove he realizes the imminent destruction of this escape, Jeffreys juxtaposes the song "Graveyard Rock," which incorporates the earlier pop with Linton Kwesi Johnson spewing out reggae patter. The song sounds humorous, but the words bare a deadly seriousness...
...this joy is infectious, and, combined with their refined style often makes for superb concerts. A cappella singing is an acquired taste, but the Kroks' impeccable song selection (mostly Cole Porter, Irving Berlin and Richard Rodgers stories of love and destruction), pleasing harmonies and prissily risque patter, all in the sensuous acoustics of Sanders create an enticing package. The Kroks don't just sing, they perform, with that Preppie obsession about sex used occasionally to roaring success, and never, in my experience, to disappointment...
...standard pattern goes like this: one member steps forward and introduces the next number with a few words of smirking humour (a word the Kroks almost demand to be spelled with a "u." The American way would seem somehow inappropriate). An example of the patter from their record...