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...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...
...Yeomen of the Guard is one of Sullivan's finest scores, certainly his most operatic, and it is performed all too seldom. The performance last night was fully worthy of the vehicle, and showed a skillful blend of enthusiasm and musical excellence. Bruce MacDonald was a charming Point, whose pleasantly intimate manner with the audience, especially in such numbers as "I've jest and Jibe," was thoroughly captivating. Playing a tricky "tragic clown" role, he managed to convey a bit of pathos without spoiling the essentially comic nature of the part...
...chorus is always important in setting the tone of a performance, and this chorus was spirited and brisk, without being obtrusive. The finale of Act I was a superb rendition of a very difficult scene, which combined dramatic excitement with important plot lines. The Yeomen, led by Robert Cort-right and William Nethercut, should be mentioned for their fine singing. The crowded theatre weekend should not keep lovers of good Gilbert and Sullivan from a brilliant performance...