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...Neill's Pooh-Bah is engaging and suitably gorged, if a little stock. Dennis Crowley, as the Lord High Executioner is the spitting image of Alfred E. Neumann, and reacts to this madness just as the old man would, reeling off his "list" with pizazz. And Willis Emmons as Pish-Tush illuminates the show: of all the leads, he's most able to sing and act at the same time while compromising neither--the first requirement of a good G&S performance...
Need something for an elderly maiden aunt? Here is romantic pish-tush, complete with nobility, scurrility, offstage virility, plight, blight, violent demise and intentions tragically mistaken. The locale is Rome. The heroine is Adriana, an aristocratic Italian beauty. One day, she is struck down by that scourge of modern-day Italy, a Vespa. She is helped to her feet by an imposing policeman, Captain Falconieri, in whom any reasonably perceptive reader can discern the ingredients of a true lover: "Above all, in the powerful current of masculinity beamed towards her." The current, however, is short-circuited by calamities-knifings, renunciations...
...Pish for thee, Iceland dog! Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland...
...convincingly expressive face to good advantage. The romantic leads are played by Paul Cawein as the minstrel, and Marietta Perl as his love interest. Both have clear and pleasantly Iyrical, if not always even, voices. The rest of the cast give more than adequate support, especially Pete Churchill as Pish-Tush...
...book is a standard text in English, Psychology, and ROTC courses. It has been my experience at Harvard, however, that few undergraduates are self-confident enough to approach a pocket book vendor or financially successful enough to blow 35 cents on a gamble. It might be propitious (pro-pish-us) then, to mention the high points of the text perceptively (pur-sep-tiv-Ice) and with acumen (a-kyoo...