Word: limbering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Opening the Phoenix Theater's eighth season, the Tyrone Guthrie production of H.M.S. Pinafore slapped salt freshness into Gilbert and Sullivan. Though bold as always, Director Guthrie in no sense threw out the baby with the bilgewater. He is too lustily stage-minded not to want to limber up the D'Oyly Carte tradition wherever stiff joints masquerade as style; but he is too English and too understanding of G. & S. to want to undermine what they did. The sudden gay way in which he has the crew lift Captain Corcoran off one side of the deck...