I've never considered 'The Sorcerer' to be top drawer G & S but I thoroughly enjoyed this production. The performances, direction and choreography are excellent. It's kept moving and the numbers are never static which is just what this piece needs. Very well done.
The slapstick shtick created (presumably by the director) added some badly-needed humor to one of G&S's less humorous operas. Though to be fair, John Wellington Wells sang his patter song brilliantly. Otherwise, this was an above-average production all around.
I've never considered 'The Sorcerer' to be top drawer G & S but I thoroughly enjoyed this production. The performances, direction and choreography are excellent. It's kept moving and the numbers are never static which is just what this piece needs. Very well done.
Magical Moonbeam Performance 🌌🥀
Nice acting and singing. My problems concern Cupid as a character and the changing of Gilbert's libretto in Constance's "Take pity..." song.
Why was no effort to make the "old and gray" women old and gray and plump?
Director added too much slapstick. Gilbert would not approve!
Making Mrs. Partlet be Constance's sister rather than her mother is wrong.
The slapstick shtick created (presumably by the director) added some badly-needed humor to one of G&S's less humorous operas. Though to be fair, John Wellington Wells sang his patter song brilliantly. Otherwise, this was an above-average production all around.