Word: yeomens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia Gilbert and Sullivan Society will present An Evening of Gilbert and Sullivan Saturday at Agassiz Theatre. Excerpts from Pirates of Penzance, Ruddigore, Patience, and Yeomen of the Guard will be featured...
Originally, the group was scheduled to perform Ruddigore in exchange for the New York visit of Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Player's Yeomen of the Guard...
...unfair to send critics tickets for opening nights. Openings at times tend to seduce us from our Olympian objectivity. The atmosphere is tuxedoed and festive and charged with excitement, and everybody cheers and shouts and applauds like fury. Well, last night they had something to shout about. Yeomen of the Guard would be a delight on a rainy night in a plague year before an audience of psychopathic dope fiends. Under the conditions that prevail at Agassiz, it is an absolute, downright, unimpeachable, irreproachable, rip-roaring riot...
...Yeomen is a bit of a change for the Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan. The tone of most of their work is one of wit and buffoonery laced with pathos; Yeomen features pathos laced with buffoonery and very little wit. Since Gilbert's wit is pointed, while his pathos is pretty but quite lacking in real bite, Yeomen is not the Messrs.' best work. But since Sullivan's music is, as always, pleasant to the point of bewitchment; since Gilbert's buffoonery is of a very high grade; and since the pathetic moments can be quite touching, why complain...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (Wed. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Gilbert & Sullivan's Yeomen of the Guard, starring Alfred Drake and Celeste Holm (color...