Word: sullivan
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PRUDENTIAL'S ON STAGE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Barry Sullivan and E. G. Marshall star in "This Town Will Never Be the Same," which chronicles the last day in the life of a newspaper and the effect its death will have on its staff and the town...
...suitable performances currently running under the guise of "strategy meetings" at Phillips Brooks House, in various obscure rooms in Holworthy and Weld--and, of course, in Massachusetts and University Halls. However, if comedy a bit lighter is more to your liking, might I suggest the most delightful Gilbert and Sullivan that the Agassiz stage has seen in several years...
...always gratifying to witness a performer improve his role, and this production affords that gratification in triplicate to staunch Harvard Dilbert and Sullivan patrons. John McKean seems to have found, in Ralph Rackstraw, the Gilbertian lead to which he is best suited. The part calls for rapid changes of character: from a caricature of soulfulness to impetuosity to prideful rage to rapture to despair to pompous authority and back, finally, to rapture. That McKean can make so many transitions so rapidly is itself a feat worthy of praise; that he makes them so smoothly and so convincingly is simply amazing...
James Paul is, as ever, powerful, meticulous, and demanding of his orchestra. And the result is, as one has come to expect, a rendition of Sullivan's most exuberant score that splendidly complements Hammond's direction. The orchestra is slightly overbalanced towards strings and could, perhaps, have been a bit brassier; but the necessity to resort to criticism so minor only underscores the fact of an excellence that has become traditional...
...before, these pages have advised kind readers to refrain from deposting their hard-earned coin in the coffers of the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, they now caution those selfsame readers to hasten the box office while tickets still remain. "For it were a shame to have seen the rest, and to have fail's to see the best...