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...mutton chops (I could go on), the duo’s penultimate Savoy opera is a work that would lend itself to variation after variation. But until the show’s reputation gets the boost it deserves, the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ (HRG&SP) new production of “Utopia, Limited,” directed by Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08 (an incredible debut) and produced by Ryder B. Kessler ’08 and Benjamin T. Morris ’09, will do just fine...
...fact, I liked this show so much that I’m going to get my one criticism out of the way now and be done with it: the pit orchestra is terrible. It’s been terrible at every HRG&SP production I’ve seen here, but this one beats them all. It is constantly out of tune, out of rhythm, out of sync, and it single-handedly ruins a few otherwise excellent musical numbers. At the beginning of the second act, as the orchestra started tuning, all I could think...
...second act of “Utopia, Limited” feels harried and confused, but that’s no fault of the HRG&SP. Gilbert and Sullivan themselves got into arguments about the show’s construction and left those arguments mostly unresolved. As a result, an anticipated duel between Scaphio and Phantis for the love of Zara never takes place, among other incongruities...
Maybe my favorite thing about the HRG&SP is that they’ve never taken themselves too seriously, preferring instead to embody the best sense of the term “amateur,” which originates from the Latin word for one who loves. The cast and crew of “Utopia, Limited” clearly love what they’ve made...
...Engineering and Applied Sciences within Harvard College, and the physics department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the new program, called the Harvard Center for Microfluidic and Plasmonic Systems, will investigate a new type of NEMS/MEMS system based on metallic nanostructures that support particles known as surface plasmons (SP). “What’s interesting about surface plasmons is that they enable electromagnetic energy to be concentrated into tiny volumes that are only tens of nanometers across, so it will enable you to generate tiny intense spots of light that are far smaller than...