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Iolanthe is as good as this Henry IV was bad, and a reviewer need not be in his dotage to rave about it. Increasingly, Iolanthe seems to be the favorite work of most Gilbert & Sullivan fanciers. Those who like the gentle, submarine beauty of Sullivan's music claim the best of that is here; others who prefer his loud, brass musical parodies consider the finest of them to be songs like "Bow, bow ye lower middle classes" and "When all night long a chap remains." Those who love the way Gilbert's characters take an inherently silly contradiction and straight...
...which received a rave review in the Confidential Guide to Courses at Harvard and Radcliffe and requires only a ten-page paper and unsigned exam for a student to receive a B, should be second on the list with 620 students, but enrollment was trimmed to 315 by an impartial lottery...
...States. "Actor" is not recognized by apartheid South Africa as a possible profession for blacks, so Kani and Ntshona, the best actors you will have a chance to see on stage for a long time, remain second-class citizens, despite a three-year international tour that has garnered universal rave reviews and the 1975 Tony award for best actor...
Right now the workshop is featuring Mose Allison while Paul's Mall has Billy Paul. Neither is anything to rave about, considering that this is the start of the season...
Scenes From American Life, a comedy about upper-class life in Buffalo, has been getting rave reviews. It's continuing in repertory with Ah, Wilderness at the BU Summer Repertory Theatre. Ticket prices are steep--$4 to $7.50--but there is such a thing as a "student pass." Call 353-3392. --Natalle Wexler