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'- So it’s all aboard for a
. quick hop around some of
the many theatrical treats
available’ on the North
” Shore and elsewhere this
week,
_ Starting close to home, Greater Vancouver Operatic Society
(GVOS) is back with its annual musical at Centennial Theatre
until March 4.

- This year's choice is unusual.
Frank Loesser (of Guys and Dolls fare) broke traditional barri-

ers in 1956 when he pushed the boundary of Broadway musicals
towards opera with The Most Happy Fella.

The operatic influence spills over from score into plot with
melodramatic consequences in this quasi-Italian story of a May-
September mail-order romance.

Musical highlights include Standing On The Corner, Song of a
Summer Night and anything by the singing chefs of Adam Kozak,
Tony Serka and Richard Theiss.

Hervey K. Hicks strong baritone is in a class of its own but
unfortunately feels like it is starring in a solo musical.

The problem of contrasting professional and amateur voices is
exacerbated by the lack of chemistry between Hicks’ Tony and
Laara Brown’s Rosabella.

Brown does not really succeed in making us care about her
predicament and she’s not helped in establishing her presence by
some decidedly odd costume choices.

But there are other pleasures to be enjoyed.

Stealing the spotlight whenever they are on stage are LouAnne
Schmidt and Barrie Mills.

Schmidt’s performance as Cleo is an all around standout and
together with Mills, who can make you smile just by being there,
proves once again that selling a song in a musical is as important as

singing it.

For once in a musical, the American values espoused
are not traditional appie-pie, although politically they
remain questionable.

Stil, I was probably the only audience member won-
dering why a woman had to get a man to be happy and
why punching someone made a man a hero.

So, if you’ve got them, check your political scruples
with your coat and allow The Most Happy Fella to treat
you to a mostly jolly evening of musical surprises.

Congrats to GVOS for challenging its cast and audi-

See Curtain page 15

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