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...Gilbertian terms, the object of the Winthrop House Music Society is sublime. And this year the production matches the goal; for with their performance of Patience, the Winthrop group has overcome with case the difficulties of piano accompaniment and crowded common room. It has collected the voices and the actors, often lacking in the past, to preserve the luster of Gilbert's lyrics and the sprightliness of Sullivan's music...
...plot has an immense sallowness, exceeded only by the banality of much of the dialogue. And yet authors Sidney Gilliat and Leslie Bailey rise sometimes to Gilbertian heights of whimsy. ("My dear," coss Gilbert to his wife, "how does it feel to be married to a transcendent genius?") Beginning with their Trial By Jury success and ending with Gilbert's elevation to knighthood after Sullivan's death, the film neatly skirts the high points of the duo's joint career. Instead, it brings to bear the full force of superficial analysis on the dissension that had them taking bows from...
Gilbert lived on for eleven years, and all the wit that had once gone to paper ran to tongue. An actor who gave a dreadful performance was greeted with the Gilbertian accolade: "My dear fellow! Good isn't the word!" When the suffragettes chained themselves to the railings in Downing Street and cried "Votes for women!", Gilbert threatened to chain himself to the Maternity Hospital and cry "Babes...
...collaborators. The opera maintains the high level of its music wonderfully well even between its most famous songs, and there are a number of brief but lovely musical numbers that leave you wishing there were more--the case with "Good Morrow, Good Mother," for example. The subject, too, is Gilbertian best. The combination of blunt, but sophisticated satire of the House of Peers with a typical G & S tale of mismated fairies and lovers produces a book which allows neither the plot nor the satire to become over-whelmingly dominant and then wearying...
Strumpet Call. As producer as well as librettist of the famous operas, Gilbert was the driving power behind the scenes. Through him, the light-opera chorus ceased to be a mere massed accompaniment to the soloists, became vociferous participants in the speedy, highly involved counterpoint of Gilbertian song. Through him, too, many a D'Oyly Carte Company member rose from the ranks to stardom. It was rarely a smooth rise: Gilbert's temper was as full of spikes as a bag of nails, his rehearsals long and terrifying. Once, when a player warmly urged his untalented mistress...