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...pounds, sophomore Matt Picarsic had a great match, thoroughly outwrestling Big Red senior tri-captain Nate Rupp for an 8-3 win. It was sweet revenge for Picarsic, who was defeated by Rupp in the semi-finals of last year's conference tournament...
...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 of Yum-Yum and her sisters...
...majority of the cast deliver their "patter songs"--the quick-paced, witty recitatives that are the trademark of Gilbert and Sullivan operetta--with careful articulation of the words. This allows viewers who aren't familiar with the play to follow the plot and understand the jokes. Yamakawa and Rupp are more conventionally operatic singers. Yamakawa's solos are lovely, and the music occasionally surprises with its beauty, as in the grief-colored "merry madrigal" near the beginning...
...show's finest performances, though, is arguably not comic at all: Katisha, the ferocious would-be bride of Nanki-Poo, is played with both delicious villainy and a surprisingly subtle range of emotions by Tuesday Rupp. Bloodthirsty and terrified of her own encroaching old age, Katisha first appears in a cloud of smoke and an attitude that brings to mind Cruella de Ville. But, playing Gilbert and Sullivan's somewhat enigmatic character to the hilt, Rupp injects a disturbing and note of tragedy into the entire latter half of the play; in the complex weave of The Mikado, this cast...
Perhaps the best testimony, though, to the extraordinary coach Smith was his own comportment last March after his Tar Heels defeated a pesky and game Fairfield University team, 82-74, in the first round of the NCAA tournament--a win that temporarily tied Smith with Kentucky's Adolph Rupp for most victories in a career. Rather than celebrate the record, Smith sought out each and every member of the opposition to congratulate him. He asked leading scorer Greg Francis, "Do you always play like that?" and told coach Paul Cormier, "I just want you to know we played very well...