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Even if you didn’t, you would certainly enjoy the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players’ production of “The Yeomen of the Guard...
There’s another significant element of the operetta: it’s not really a happy ending. As the story isn’t known to everyone, I won’t reveal its conclusion, but suffice it to say that Gilbert and Sullivan were obviously trying to aim higher than your standard crowd-pleaser. Keeping in that tradition of classically British humor, the performers do a great job of allowing us to laugh in the face of other people’s misfortune; only the most sensitive of viewers would consider this production a tragedy...
...singer whose commitment is questionable: she is already engaged to a jester named Jack Point (Samuel Gale Rosen ’06). Fairfax’s rather blatant admirer, Phoebe Meryll (Jessica G. Peritz ’06) helps him to escape and hijinks ensue in typical Gilbert and Sullivan style with some surprising twists at the finale...
...more, the show casts the Tower of London as a puppet, lending a slightly off-beat vibe to the show. As HRG&SP President Casey M. Lurtz ’07 notes, ““Yeomen of the Guard” is the closest Gilbert & Sullivan [came] to a serious dramatic work.” The variety and hilarity in “Yeomen” promise to make it an exciting production...
...stage will be just about the only place where Margaret D. Maloney ’06 won’t play a leading role in the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ production of “The Yeomen of the Guard.” The Dunster House resident has been instrumental to the show at every point in its production, from being one of the people who chose “Yeomen” as this season’s Gilbert and Sullivan operetta right down to designing its publicity posters. Maloney left Decatur...