Word: agassiz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BLOBBING DAMPLY up the grand stairway of the Agassiz Theatre, to keep his appointment with Timothy Mayer's masterful staging of Jesus (A Passion Play for Cambridge), this reviewer passed by Peter W. Johnson--a Technical Director qualified to retire the title--locked in brief colloquy with a bearded minion. A conversation was overheard. Quoth the minion: "There are no more weights." Replied Johnson: "Well...use anything...
...Jesus--A Passion Play for Cambridge opens at the Agassiz Theater, playing through July 19, and 22-26. Further information at the Agassiz Theater, 10 Garden Street 2-6 p.m., phone...
...Morality Play, a production of the Harvard Dramatic Club Summer Players, opens at the Agassiz Theater. Other productions on August 8, 9, and 12-16. Further information at the Agassiz Theater, 10 Garden Street, 2-6 p.m., phone...
Still, musicals--even those have aged poorly, as Yankees has--can provide a lot of theatrical lightning. All they need to work is plenty of love, speed and style. In the Agassiz Yankees, the love and speed are there; it's the lack of style that often sends this enormously pleasant show into the doldrums...
...talented individuals and springy dances, Agassiz' Damn Yankees can never throw off the burden of a book in which things happen so dully and a director who does so little to slick it all up. Go to Agassiz expecting spasmodic thrills, but plan to find you ecstasy after the show is over...