Word: queenã
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...finest of these talents is Jendi Thorday, who plays the queen??s lady-in-waiting, Belinda. In addition to possessing a beautiful voice, she displays the production’s best acting, particularly early on, when she tries to convince the hero and heroine of the other’s affection...
Point is a nasty part—a nasty part in a nasty show. If Gilbert and Sullivan operettas are as English as a cup of tea (and this is a show that makes its audience sing “God Save the Queen?? before the overture), then The Yeomen of the Guard is the cup that got laced. It is operetta on crack. The plot starts off with characteristic gleeful entanglement, but when the time comes to tidy everything up for neat resolution, the miraculous ploys fail and tragedy, usually avoided by a hair?...
...school’s own surveys back up Queen??s statements. Each year the summer school conducts polls—similar to the CUE Guide course evaluations done during the regular term—in which students are asked to rate their instructors and their classes on a scale of one to five...
...most mature and varied music, as a piece of drama it doesn’t always attain the same sublimity. There is, for example, no explanation of why the evil Queen of the Night has at her disposal three virtuous wonder-boys who help Tamino thwart the Queen??s plans after leading him to Sarastro’s temple. Nor is it obvious why Sarastro, that paragon of priestly piety, employs as his prison warden an old lecher bent on ravishing Pamina...