Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mummy," a farce written by G. Post Wheeler '91, with music by R. D. Smith '96, and W. W. Leonard '96, was successfully presented. The plot is laid in Egypt and centres about the disappearance of Rameses the King of Egypt and the complications thereby involved...
...first public performance of the Pi Eta play, "The Alcayde," was given Saturday evening in Brattle Hall before an enthusiastic audience. The music is by F. E. Barry '97 and the libretto by G. Stephens, Jr., Gr. The plot and cast of the opera has already been published in the CRIMSON...
...play is well worth going to see, being a decided improvement over last year's performance. The plot is good, but it is worked out in the conventional comic opera style. The dialogue contains few novelties and becomes rather monotonous toward the end. Moreover the play does not seem to be evenly balanced, all of the action excepting the denouement itself coming in the first act. For this reason the second act fails to retain the interest of the spectator, and seems almost an anti-climax...
...plot and cast of characters have already been published at lenght. Little more need be said. The music is tuneful at all times, catchy in many places, and almost classical in others, and it is sung by a thoroughly competent cast and chorus. The work of the chorus both vocally and in groupings for stage pictures shows what earnest work will do. The gypsy dance made a distinct hit. The costumes, stage settings, and effects were all that could be desired...
...plot is of a rather more substantial character than that of most light operas. Don Manuel, the young and handsome Alcayde of Seville, is desperately in love with Farina, an orphan maid of lowly birth. As Farina is the ward of the Grand Inquisitor of Seville, it becomes necessary for Don Manuel to ask the consent of that pompous functionary before pressing his suit. The Inquisitor, however, has designs of a nuptial nature on Farina himself, and to put his rival out of the way he shows Don Manuel a prenuptial contract made with a fierce Moorish chieftain when...