Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Straight from the sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney, the courtly lover came to life here at Meehan Auditorium Saturday night, and he bore a strong resemblance to the Harvard hockey team...
...decade he lived openly in a captain's paradise, spending each week with his London mistress and each weekend with his Parisian wife. Finally Sir James Goldsmith, 45, multimillionaire entrepreneur and press lord who controls France's L 'Express, put an end to the domestic balancing act. Having already divorced the former Ginette Lery in September, Sir Jimmy whisked Lady Annabel Birley off for a private wedding ceremony-in Paris of all places. When the couple left Goldsmith's Paris office, Daily Express Photographer Bill Lovelace snapped some pictures. Sir Jimmy ran at him "like...
...really can't blame the people involved in this production for reducing Sir William Gilbert's venomous social satire to the level of Broadway musical comedy. That's happened over the decades, and there's nothing any single director can do to change it. Audiences want their G & S lovable, and until someone comes along to persuade them otherwise, that's the way they...
...misses its chance to underscore the irony, leaving poor Gilbert's words to stand or fall on their wit alone. That they could stand at all is a tribute to the universality of his satire. No one remembers W.H. Smith any more (the newspaper-stand magnate Gilbert caricatures as Sir Joseph Porter)--except the tourists to Great Britain who still see his name on every other newsstand. But no one can miss this general broadside against sinecures of any kind...
Gilbert's Sir Joseph Porter is his great creation in Pinafore, the character everyone remembers. But the pompous First Lord of the Admiralty, tailed by his drone horde of matronly relatives, fussily insisting that officers and crew "refrain from language strong," should be a solid character nonetheless. He's the vehicle for Gilbert's satiric venom, and he should be just respectable enough for us to enjoy laughing at him. Jonathan A. Prince turns Porter into a lovable old Codger, who you'd help across the street or stage if you could stop cracking up for a moment. So much...