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...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...
...more lavish production, and excellent performances by the principals. The crew of the famous ship whirls and leaps in a comic dance, with several planned encores. The dancing is excellent, but at times choreographer Ruth Perrenod and director Lindsay Davis push a little too hard. While Ralph Rackstraw (Thomas Fuller) sings his love Madrigal a member of the chorus and a ballerina waft about the deck of the ship. The scene is syrupy enough without this heavy-handed instruction to the audience, "See, this is really just in fun." The ballerina, Lois Rosenberg returns as a sprightly youngest cousin...
THOMAS FULLER as Rackstraw and Lise Landis as Josephine play their caricature parts with a sincerity that heightens the effect of the great cliche. Their dripping love scenes draw roars of laughter from the audience. Josephine's asides like, "His simple eloquence goes to my heart!" and "Oh, my heart, my beating heart!" and Rackstraw's statement of love, with the phrase "wafted one moment into blazing day, by mocking hope--plunged the next into Cimmerian darkness of tangible despair, I am but a living ganglion of irreconcilable antagonisms." draw cheers from an unbelieving audience...
...Stuttgart Ballet, to music of Sir Arthur Sullivan. Cheerful girls in peppermint stripes and ruffled panties collide with beerful British tars from H.M.S. Hot Cross Bun. Pineapple Poll herself appears and falls helplessly in love with Captain Belaye, an officer who combines the best qualities of Ralph Rackstraw, Captain Corcoran and Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B...