Word: savoyard
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...taped in London. Conrad enjoyed himself so much that he intends to sign up for singing lessons when he returns to Los Angeles. "I honestly believe I would have been much happier, although much less rich, if I had taken up singing as a career," says the budding Savoyard. "As my wife knows, I love to sing in the bathtub." -By E. Graydon Carter...
Though "any good school chorus would have done," according to John Parker Murdoch, director of the tour-sponsoring International Artists Series, he expresses pleasure at Harvard's "strong Gilbert and Sullivan tradition." The Harvard G & S singers till now have performed only inside the college or for patrons; the Savoyard encounter will mark their first big public engagement, says a group member...
...fully open to my awful situation") is faster and perhaps more tongue-twisting; but the Lord Chancellor's song is the Moby Dick of patter songs, the masterpiece all the rest led up to or away from. Singing the Lord Chancellor's song is the equivalent, for a Savoyard, of Hamlet or Lear for a Shakespearean. The lyrics are a juxtaposition of complete irreverence ("the black silk with gold clocks") with a sense of heightened reality and absurdity characteristic of real nightmares...
Unlike some of the other members of the cast, the Lord Chancellor (Dennis Crowley) is at his best in the dialogue sections--his voice clear, sardonic and genuinely Gilbertian. He catches the verbal nuances with the skill of a born Savoyard and manages to be not only a buffoon and a figure of pathos, but, when necessary, a commanding Lord in his own right. The only flaw in Crowley's performance is that his voice is not quite as strong as it might be--never powerful enough to belt out a line that needs belting out. Nonetheless, he traverses...
...Subversive Activities Control Board could have been invented by Gilbert and Sullivan. Like the Queen's Navee, Savoyard-style, it provides its members with impressive-sounding responsibilities, conveys a generous ($26,000) salary, and requires virtually no work at all. The board has heard not a single case in the past 19 months and is not likely to hear one any time soon. With an economy fever gripping Congress, SACB-together with its nearly $300,000 annual budget-would seem to be an ideal target, but the Senate voted overwhelmingly last week not to dissolve the board...