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Holding, while fantastic in the main role, seems a slightly strange choice from a physical point of view: Lucie’s tiny size is repeatedly referenced, while Holding is one of the tallest members of the cast. While this adds to the unreal and stylized aspects of the play, it also causes some confusion, as the audience constantly forgets about this until it is reminded of the character’s size again. That fact aside, her performance is riveting. She plays Lucie throughout her 67-year life with only a few personality changes to account for the transition...
...rest of the cast is uniformly good. But with the exception of the excellent Malone, most of the actors end up portraying emotions in tableaux that are non-naturalistic to the point of being a little distancing. This aspect is largely a function of the nature of the play: its use of dance and poetic monologues lends itself to a demonstrative form. For example, when Jean is nervous around Lucie, he repeatedly runs to the edge of the stage and back...
With a huge ensemble cast, political satire, unresolved side plots, self-slander, sex, finance, and mutton chops (I could go on), the duo’s penultimate Savoy opera is a work that would lend itself to variation after variation. But until the show’s reputation gets the boost it deserves, the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players’ (HRG&SP) new production of “Utopia, Limited,” directed by Jeremy R. Steinemann ’08 (an incredible debut) and produced by Ryder B. Kessler ’08 and Benjamin...
...show, the cast has so effectively adopted the English way of doing things that the country’s efficiency actually becomes a problem. The all-powerful army and navy can’t find anyone who is willing to go to war with them, and the laws are so just that the lawyers are starving for lack of criminals to prosecute...
...cast wields an almost embarrassing richness of personality, and under the musical direction of Julia S. Carey ’09, Arthur Sullivan’s daunting melodicism is terrifically realized. Gilbert and Sullivan operas are always wordy, and this dual satire of 19th century English society and limited liability companies—replete with now-obscure references to parliamentary legislation and Hawaiian princesses—is no exception...