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...Pirates of Penzance opens its winding tale with Frederick, played by Arlo D. Hill ’08, a boy forced into servitude on a pirate ship at the age of eight. Upon his release at the age of 21, Frederick falls in love with Mabel (Chelsey J. Forbess ’07), the daughter of Major General (Jeff W. Howard ’08). As the pirates threaten to capture Mabel and her sisters—and Major General lies to spare them—Frederick is obliged to return to the pirate ship due to an unfortunate loophole...
...sweep and poignancy, its collision of small lives with great events, the film?produced by Jackie and directed by Mabel Cheung?could make a movie epic or a top-rated, multigenerational series on a Hong Kong TV channel. Traces also has a diamond-in-the-rough star: Jackie's father. A jaunty, salty gent, still vigorous in his mid-80s, Charles carries the narrative. He was born as Fang Daolong in 1915 in Shandong province. A disorderly kid ("I was a real brat"), he became an orderly to a KMT general?until he accidentally shot a loaded...
Performances included Easy Street (starring Chaplin), Fatty and Mabel Adrift (starring Roscoe Arbuckle) and a compilation of Chaplin’s original movie compositions, entitled “The Reel Chaplin.” The films were projected onto a screen on the auditorium’s back wall while the orchestra played in the darkened hall. The experience of silent film with a full live orchestra was especially rare and memorable—emotions mimed by the actors onscreen are further energized by the orchestra’s proximity and musical charge...
...music for Fatty and Mabel Adrift wasn’t composed for the love story, but rather compiled from a variety of sources. Though they didn’t closely match the action in the film, the selections were well coordinated, compiled and whimsical—especially played alongside Fatty and Mabel’s farcical romance...
...Mabel Cheung's Beijing Rocks throws down the gauntlet to Hong Kong. By using the young and restless generation?specifically, determinedly unambitious underground rock singers who want music, not Mao?Cheung questions China's new-order identity struggle and serves up a premise that's hard to refute: Hong Kong is passE, Beijing is today and that shift will dictate China's thereafter...