Word: agassiz
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...Spell Me, Darryl Loomis?, the student-written comedy which played Jan. 4 and 5 at Radcliffe’s Agassiz Theater, operates on several levels. On one, it’s a brilliant satire about the decay of sportsmanship, on another a dead-on parody of sports movies like The Karate Kid and Angels in the Outfield...
...something goes terribly wrong. More than once, a song is completely drowned out by the production’s twelve-person orchestra, which is situated between the stage and the audience, as is standard in the Agassiz. Much of the blame here must be given to the faint-voiced actors; the orchestra is not exceedingly resonant. Some of the actors are simply unable to vocalize over the instruments, and it is not clear that they could be heard clearly even if the orchestra were not playing at all. The frustrating effect of losing the words to songs cannot be underestimated...
It’s 9 o’clock and Pitkin’s back in the Saab, heading for the Agassiz School. Here he meets up with School Committee member Susana M. Segat, who plans to spend the entire day in front of the school. So far turnout “feels low,” she says...
...School Committee members both have the endorsement of the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), the activist establishment of local politics. In front of the Agassiz, the CCA crowd is hanging out together; at one corner of the school all the signs advertise their candidates. Down the street, two young men in blue jeans and work boots look lonely holding signs for incumbent Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72, who dropped out of the CCA in 1996. They’re members of Carpenters Local 40. Reeves supports their union, the two men say, and the union supports Reeves...
Then it’s back to the Agassiz and the Peabody, where State Rep. Alice K. Wolf (D-Cambridge) stops by and is taken aback by some of the campaign strategy. A pair of supporters holding the same candidate’s sign are standing together, even though there are two entrances to the polling place...