Despite only making a few appearances, the titular sorcerer is perhaps the operetta’s most memorable role, and Koven certainly delivers, blazing through the patter song “My Name is John Wellington Wells” and eliciting gasps of delight from the many children in the audience during his other numbers. As Koven seems to understand, the character’s distinctive combination of weird and respectable qualities exemplifies Gilbert and Sullivan’s preoccupation with juxtaposing the ironic and absurd.
Congrats on the favorable review! I suspect that the children were not the only ones 'gasping' with delight during your enthralling numbers. :o) You excelled not only in song and dance but also the minute details that make a character jump off the stage--e.g. the elaborate spoon swirls to put the potion into the Teapot of Doom, and the creepy normality/'respectability' you in the character of Mr. Wells abruptly switch in and out. In short, a puck in businessman's clothing.
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Congrats on the favorable review! I suspect that the children were not the only ones 'gasping' with delight during your enthralling numbers. :o) You excelled not only in song and dance but also the minute details that make a character jump off the stage--e.g. the elaborate spoon swirls to put the potion into the Teapot of Doom, and the creepy normality/'respectability' you in the character of Mr. Wells abruptly switch in and out. In short, a puck in businessman's clothing.
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