Word: yeomens
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...roam freely without suspicion. in a healthy dose of expletives, tacky clothes, a dangerous audience and it's as if you're in 16th-century Ricki Lake or Rolanda territory. But the scenario actually belongs to the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert & Sullivan Players' fall contribution to the Agassiz stage, The Yeomen of the Guard...
...hardly have adjusted to the uptight Agassiz seats before it's time for an ovation. "Trial by Jury" is just an overture to November's full-scale "Yeomen of the Guard." With G&S, though, as with all trials, it's better to leave wanting more than staring with glazed eyes at your watch--or your calendar...
...same can be said of the summer's other productions. From Britain, Glimmerglass has imported a splendidly colorful mounting by the Welsh National Opera of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Yeomen of the Guard. And Swedish director Peter Stormare, a protege of Ingmar Bergman's, has put Mozart's Don Giovanni in a surprising, provocative new light. This Don is an aging lech so enervated by his exploits that he spends most of the opera being pushed around like a paraplegic. The approach may not be quite what Mozart had in mind, but the gutsy cast of young American singers...
...most frequently cataloged submersibles besides homes and acres of waving grain were bandstands and ball fields. "Summers are what we are all about," insists the Des Moines Register's Larry Fruhling. "This summer was wrecked." Worse, it may have planted fear in the hearts of thousands of the yeomen...
...successful elements of the spring Yeomen mask its shortcomings. Musicals, no matter how dumb, always entertain if performed with a modicum of professionalism. This strange operetta claims only to be "an experiment in merriment," and though it doesn't quite illuminate all the author and composer might have hoped it would, the Gilbert & Sullivan Players have fulfilled their obligation to their namesakes with enjoyable artistry. Thanks to that effort, The Yeomen of the Guard won't have to be performed again, until all the present matriculants of the College are long gone away...