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...year came from a band veiled in secrecy, a band that shuns playing already-released material in their frenetic live shows, a band whose members include an Avery Tare and a Panda Bear. The group is the Animal Collective, whose early 2004 release Sung Tongs redefined how a pop song could sound. With no coherent structures or discernible lyrics, the band still managed to put together an album that is constantly catchy and never boring, with instrumentation that proves an experimental album doesn’t have to be difficult to take...
...Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan could have hardly imagined their most beloved operetta The Pirates of Penzance or The Slave of Duty as performed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players under the direction of Ashley A.P. Horan ’05. It is a delightful romp of song and dance, with a flamboyant (and let us not forget, glitter-chest) Pirate King who immediately calls to mind images of Captain Jack Sparrow...
Jeffery W. Howard ’08 equally hilarious in the always crowd-pleasing role of Major General Stanley—he introduces himself with the ridiculously fast, tongue-twisting song, “I am the Very Model of a Modern Major General.” Howard had the audience clapping for the more rapidly sung encore before he even began to sing it. With facial expressions akin to those of Lucille Ball, Brianne Boyd is lovely as the not so lovely and slightly deaf maid-of-all-work, Ruth...
...anachronistic use of his hands to “quote” and the to-be invented wrist watch only served to heighten the comedic effect. Chelsey J. Forbess ’07 played Mabel, the love interest, and displayed a good sense of comedic timing, especially in the song “Poor Wandering One!” where she coyly delays Frederick’s satisfaction for a kiss...
...Pirates of Penzance made wonderful use of the cozy Agassiz Theater stage with a multi-purpose rotating set. The actors’ interaction with the audience was a fun added touch—the Chorus of General Stanley’s Wards sang their entrance song up and down the aisles before heading onto the stage to finish with a delightful and facetiously choreographed number involving parasols. But perhaps the crowning touch was when major general Howard grabbed an unsuspecting audience member to weep on and was given a hanky by music director and conductor Mark P. Musico...