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...heels of HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance is one of the best known of the Gilbert and Sullivan canon. The show has very little dialogue; there's nothing here, for instance, to rival the verbal pyrotechnics between the two peers in Iolanthe or the pompous flatulence of Poo-Bah in The Mikado. Pirates' fame derives rather from its score, which is a typical G&S mix of rousing chorus numbers, patter songs and take-offs on Italian grand opera...
...Gilbert and Sullivan Players. The Players come closer than any other theatrical group at Harvard to being an ensemble company. Cast members perform together in show after show; some, like the versatile Tom Fuller, who played just about every G & S hero from Ralph Rackstraw to Nanki Poo before directing Iolanthe last fall, are Harvard legends...
...usual, the G&S Society has assembled an outstanding cast who combine comedic talents with operatic voices. W hat's unusual about this production, however, is that G&S Hall of Famer Tom Fuller has forsaken the stage-- where he's played heroes from Ralph Rackstraw to Nanki Poo-- to make his directorial debut. Fuller's production of Iolanthe lacks the inventiveness of past G&S shows like the gimmicky H.M.S. Pinafore of two years ago, but it features moments of comic brilliance rarely matched on the Harvard stage. The scene in which two Lords try to decide which will...
Iolanthe. Gilbert and Sullivan satirize the House of Lords with some of their wittiest lyrics and catchiest music, including the great patter number "The Lord Chancellor's Song." Tom Fuller, a second-year law student who's played G & S heroes from Ralph Rackstraw to Nanki Poo in the past few years, is making his directorial debut If this show is up to the standard of past G & S productions, it may well be the highlight of the winter theater season. Buy your tickets now; by next week they'll be impossible to come by. At the Agassiz, December...
...Nanki-Poo (Tom Fuller) was also excellent. The straight male Dudley Doright lead in G & S operas are usually second in insipidity only to the straight female lead, and Fuller turned in one of the most successful recent performance in such a difficult, unrewarding role. Pooh-Bah (Scott Moe) was well performed, but not as satisfactory; like Peter Rogers's unfortunate Mikado and Crowley's otherwise fine Ko-Ko, his portrayal suffered from too much of an unctiousness that makes Gilbert and Sullivan seem like effete tomfoolery, overbred "veddy British" knockabout farce, instead of satirical light opera of the highest...