Word: poo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems like an exercise in futility to try to summarize a Gilbert and Sullivan plot, but the bare bones may suffice. Our young hero, Nanki-Poo (Jerry B. Shuman '98), the son of the Mikado of all Japan, has fled his father's court in the face of his upcoming nuptials to Katisha (Tuesday Rupp), a ferocious elderly noblewoman. While disguised as a wandering minstrel, Nanki-Poo has met and fallen in love with the delicious Yum-Yum (Caline Yamakawa)--but their amours were frustrated by the fact that the tailor Ko-Ko (Paul D. Siemens '98), the guardian...
...production might easily have been allowed to ride on the abilities of a few, letting mediocrity slide by around the edges. Fortunately, that isn't an issue here; each of the central players demonstrate a startlingly high level of energy. As the young romantic protagonists Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo, Yamakawa and Shuman are thoroughly engaging, projecting the strange blend of world-wisdom and innocence that make Gilbert and Sullivan's heroes so appealing--by the time he's finished his introductory song, "A Wandering Minstrel I," Shuman has won us over. Siemens's Ko-Ko is thoroughly annoying...
...here Sheinberg and Pollock may slip into melancholia: virtually all Universal's megamovies of the past 20 years-including Jaws and Hollywood's all-time champ, E.T.: The Extraterrestrial-were directed or produced by Steven Spielberg, who last fall decided to form an independent multimedia company with fellow Poo-Bahs Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen...
...Nanki-Poo but does not cut loose vocally as he did in Into the Woods, this is an amazing turnaround for Bell and Bowman, who mounted Broadway's truly brainless if brief musical flop, the gender-swapping castle fantasy A Change in the Heir, in 1990. Where that air was stale, this is irrepressibly fresh and fizzy...
...Rudy" 5. Bastard Kestrel "Motofry" 6. The Beats "Beatnik Bounce" 7. Hugh Beauont Experience "Eric's on Thorazine" 8. Milk "Happy is the Eye that Sees" 9. Ampersands "Postcards" 10. Sparkalepsy "Friendly Fire" 11. Cockpit "P. J. Party" 12. Bugskull "All Members Please Rise" 13. Seeds "Evil Hoo Poo" 14. Gaunt "Good Bad Happy Seed" 15. The Smiles "Lions on the Prowl" 16. King Loser "Dick Dale" 17. Neutral Milk Hotel "Everything Is" 18. Fat Day "Pawn Shop" 19. Victims "TV Addicts" 20. Hammerhead "Anvil...