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...LOVE-SICK MAN is a helpless ninny, marriage is a trap baited with blackmail, the jester is bound to end up with his head on the chopping block--quite a few gloomy aphorisms might be gleaned from The Yeomen of the Guard. If the show's music--with its operatic flourishes--is among Arthur Sullivan's grandest, the libretto certainly represents W.S. Gilbert at his most despondent...
...grimness, there is no real heavy in Yeomen of the Guard--the only out and out villain, the venal relative responsible for sending noble Colonel Fairfax to the Tower on a trumped-up charge of sorcery, never even appears. The plot complications arise instead from the ironic unfolding of two different schemes initiated by the forces of good...
...picture of life suggested by The Yeomen of the Guard is a somber one, it is superbly painted by the Gilbert and Sullivan Players in a production which surpasses even their own invariably high standards. The show begins slowly, unimpressively, as the groundwork of the plot is carefully laid. But the momentum picks up for good when Elsie (Ellen Burkhardt) and Jack Point (Terry Knickerbocker) team in a lovely duet that tells the sad tale of "the merryman and his maid ("I have a song to sing, O!"); in this evocatively staged number, lyrics, music, choreography and voices blend into...
Trial by Jury, and scenes from Ruddigore, Yeomen of the Guard, and Princess Ida: Cathy Gratto, director, Gerald Moshell, conductor; Kirkland...
...history has conditioned Americans to think of men like John Adams and Patrick Henry as politically stodgy as they appear in pictures in American history books, with their long powdered wigs and tight-fitting puritanical breeches. Our image of Thomas Jefferson, with his dreams of a nation of enlightened yeomen, is sullied by the picture of Lyndon Johnson sending B-52s to bomb the peasants of North Vietnam. The thought of Samuel Adams, fervently orating on the imperative of American independence, becomes confounded with the image of American leaders like Dwight Eisenhower sending troops to Korea...