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...strip, manages to do so without having lines or songs of her own. And in the midst of all this grown-up humor, the cast genuinely looks and sounds like a gaggle of ten-year-olds. Technically, the production is as colorful and understated as the actors?? performances. Lighting plays an ingenious dramatic role and is crucial to the play’s finale. The aesthetic choices, from Lucy’s blackboard to Snoopy’s doghouse, form colorful geometric patterns, which are only enhanced by the set’s dark backgrounds. There are serious...
...matched to the Lil’ Kim worthy lyrics she was required to recite, but “Maude and Harold” was nothing if not a comedy of incongruities. Mitnick’s exceedingly hummable score swelled beneath the show-stopping musical numbers, but never overwhelmed the actors?? riotous vocal performances. Mitnick’s score alluded extensively to the wholesome showtunes of yesteryear’s Rogers and Hammerstein productions—which was all the more ironic considering the songs’ risqué content. Pope had her hands full orchestrating frequent set changes...
...often occurs with secondary characters in musicals, Gohar steals the show by employing a believable Puerto Rican accent and not hesitating to express her emotions through body language. Her energetic dance moves and choice to emphatically speak parts instead singing them in a high key are particularly effective.Although the actors?? confinement to the small stage precluded them from reproducing the highly stylized fighting and elaborate dance scenes, the cast compensated for their lack of dancing expertise with coordinated movement. Dancing aside, the play remains in a permeating sense of lethargy. Blurring the distinction between the Jets...
...colored frills, since this both helps distinguish the actors and suggests the tumult underlying their obedient demeanors. Although the makeup is perhaps too good considering that the daughters are all supposed to be in their thirties—most of them look too young and pretty—the actors?? attention to their own makeup serves to underscore the feminine character of the play.Tom E. Osborne ’08 brings an added dimension of complexity to the show with his characteristically skillful lighting design. Vacillating between rich yellows that accentuate the wooden furniture and dusty earth...
...remember what to say, so we just said whatever came into our minds.” She remembers that Altman encouraged them. “He kept us going and he was unafraid, and it made us unafraid,” she says.Altman also maximizes his actors?? talents by shooting essentially boundless scenes, full of uninterrupted stretches of dialogue during which characters speak simultaneously. “There’d be long, meandering takes, and all I could think was, ‘Surely he?...