Sailing isn't all smooth for 'Pinafore'

The Baltimore Sun

For its annual production of a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, the Young Victorian Theatre Company has not so much sprinkled Baltimore-isms on H.M.S. Pinafore as drowned the old vessel in them.

That's not to say the result is all wet, but merely to point out that anyone who prefers G&S; reasonably undiluted may have some trouble swallowing this concoction.

Saturday night's opening performance at the Bryn Mawr School generated enough musical values and high spirits, though, to keep the ever-fresh spark of Sullivan's brilliant score burning nicely. Poor Gilbert didn't fare quite so well, since the fundamentals of his gently satirical libretto are weakened by the mostly incongruous adjustments in the staging.

If you go H.M.S. Pinafore will be performed at 8 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, and 3 p.m. Sunday at Bryn Mawr School, 109 W. Melrose Ave. Tickets $36. Call 410-323-3077 or go to yvtc.org.

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