Word: titular
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Despite only making a few appearances, the titular sorcerer is perhaps the operetta’s most memorable role, and Koven certainly delivers, blazing through the patter song “My Name is John Wellington Wells” and eliciting gasps of delight from the many children in the audience during his other numbers. As Koven seems to understand, the character’s distinctive combination of weird and respectable qualities exemplifies Gilbert and Sullivan’s preoccupation with juxtaposing the ironic and absurd...
...even Kate, Shakespeare’s famous anti-heroine, feels oddly timid. Poorly executed fight choreography abounds, such as Kate’s unconvincing knee-to-the-crotch and the lame food fight which opens the second act. By that point, it feels as if the titular “shrew” has already been tamed. What’s left to watch after that...
...Peter Brook. According to director James M. Leaf ’09-’10, this production had served as a commentary on the Cold War; Marat was used as an allegory for East Berlin, Sade as an allegory for the West. This particular interpretation, which pitted one titular character against the other, possesses little contemporary relevance in Leaf’s play, which lays its emphasis more on the relationship and similarities between the two characters, rather than on their opposition...
...latter part of the '80s, Albano assumed his biggest nonwrestling role, as one-half of the titular duo on the animated and live-action Saturday-morning cartoon The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! But even when he no longer had his trademark beard, it was impossible to mistake him for anyone else. He was, as he regularly quipped, "Often imitated, never duplicated...
...original story of Semele, which William Congreve adapted for his libretto, is a oft-told tale. The titular mortal protagonist falls in love with Jupiter, king of the gods. They have an affair, but when Jupiter’s jealous wife Juno finds out, she swears revenge. Furious, Juno disguises herself as a mortal and appears to Semele, convincing the poor girl to question Jupiter’s immortality. Semele, unaware that the sight of Jupiter in all his divine glory is fatal, demands to see him as a god. He begs her not to, but she stands firm...