Laurelyn Watson Chase, Stephen Quint and the NYGASP chorus, by Richard Termine/The New York Times
The Yeomen of the Guard at City Center, January 18, 2013
The New York Times, Jan. 22, 2013
I've written several times before about my abiding love for the Gilbert & Sullivan canon, and for the work done on its behalf by the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, most recently when I covered their production of The Sorcerer at John Jay College in December. But of The Yeomen of the Guard, a show I didn't know well and hadn't seen staged previous, the following lines came to mind unbidden when I circulated my tiny review on social media:
Of "Yeomen," a rarity,
Observed with all due charity,
The music's bliss,
The tale, amiss –
Unfortunate disparity!
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