Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charts. Though they deny that they consciously play up their rebel image, they bill themselves as "five reflections of to day's children," write songs about "trying to make some girl," with supposedly coded allusions to menstruation, marijuana and birth-control pills. For their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in January, they reluctantly altered the words of their recent hit, Let's Spend the Night Together...
...snipped out the footage-and thanked N.C.O.M.P. for the free advertising. But the studio could not help pointing out that the British-made Ulysses got away with displaying the bare bottoms of Buck Mulligan (T. P. McKenna) and Blazes Boylan (Joe Lynch). Well, yes, replied the Rev. Patrick J. Sullivan, N.C.O.M.P.'s director, there is a double standard-but not the one that Fox suggests...
...oeuvre. The libretto is Golkbert's most serious. There is the usual measure of ponderous Victorian humor, but once the dangers suffered by the characters are real, and there are more than a few truly poignant and moving moments. Yeomen is also the opera for which Sullivan produced his richest and most solidly constructed score. Of all their works, it was the authors own favorite...
...soloists, Danius Turek (Fairfax) and Jennifer Kosh (Elsie) had the best voices; their singing made Sullivan's score sound like the more-than-respectable operatic music it is. Norma Levin's Phoebe was marred by singing that borrowed too much from the coyness of musical comedy. However, her acting more than made up for her vocal failings Mary Duffy as Dame Carruthers was, with the Yeomen, the only real musical disappointment of the evening. Totally oblivious to rhythm, projection, conductor, and pitch, she barely got through her own number and came near to ruining the ensembles in which she took...
...Sullivan's music may be warmed-over Mendelssohn, but this Yeomen was anything but warmed-over Gilbert and Sullivan. As usual, the players took a work that is generally regarded as a museum piece and made it into living musical theatre...