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Show 'Charm' to grace contf by DON GRAVES Chronicle Staff "Gilbert and Sullivan? Don't you mean Gilbert O'Sullivan?" No, 90 years ago Gilbert and Sullivan created some of the most delightful music ever written. The fact that a modern rock performer has taken their names is beside the point. Gilbert and Sullivan wrote operettas that were to Victorian England what "My Fair Lady" and "The Music Man" are to us today. The main difference is that the older operettas had singing most of the time as opposed to the scattered scat-tered songs in todays musicals. On October 18, at 8 p.m. in the Tabernacle, the University of Utah Office of Continuing Education in conjunction with the Utah Symphony Sym-phony will present "The World of Gilbert and Sullivan." Now you might ask just why you should pay good money to see something written for Victorian England. There is just one good reason I can think of, because the whole thinci will be so much fun. Gilbert and Sullivan used wildly improbable stories with so many mixed-up sub-plots that at times these shows seem like a Marx Brother's film because of the inanities happening on stage. With these stories they were able to satirize the straight-laced social conventions with humor that chopped holes in the Victorian Ship of Morality. Because human nature really doesn't change from one era to another, these arrows of satire are still as funny as the) tri in 1880. L One of the best exampr Mikado," set in Japan,' with political suppress Ko-Ko, Lord High b Titipu (the play sounS-'ij, already doesn't it?l sings D( little list of society ;:f0 might be underground', will be missed." Then??., pure corn of "A wonder;' am I", or the trio that g little maids from school!1 as a school girl welta' Today these works period charm they sidered pure camp, I current nostalgia movie posters, "No, Mae West films (what"?-or (what"?-or ragtime. ; Because the concert of songs from a nun1,, shows the perform i costume, but the H0J and Sullivan will s t f (I hope). A word of adwa that these songs'"''' entertain and annuseP; feel like laug in 1 stolid atmosphere ' nacle hold you to; think that the Taber few good laughs. have all o. tho 78's lying armjng |