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When Peggy Averite left her job as a school official in Indianapolis, the Ivy League graduate had received nothing but glowing performance reviews, and was heavily recruited across the nation. After some consideration, she finally accepted the City of Cambridge's offer to serve as Principal of the Agassiz School, an elementary school in North Cambridge...
...appropriately suggestive smiles, this band of love-stricken Venetians could use a little more "cha-cha" in their "Cachucha" dance, and once again, a few more lessons in being louder and more boisterous. Maneuvering 16 singers (Marco, Guiseppe, their wives and 12 of their closest friends) around the tiny Agassiz stage is difficult and requires clockwork choreography and impeccably-enunciated singing, but this cast has the potential to make it work...
Master Kiely said he takes special pride inAdamsians' past leadership in taking theater atHarvard "off-Loeb and off-Agassiz" and in beingthe first House with a gay and lesbian supportgroup before homosexuality could be openlydiscussed. At the time, Kiely said, some Masterscalled homosexuality "an Adams House problem...
...Loeb Mainstage was turned down, McGuinness and her production staff were faced with the problem of finding a space big enough for the large cast and schnazzy dance numbers a good production of Guys and Dolls would require. Though they looked into the Reimann Center and the Agassiz (where West Side Story went up three years before) none of these were large enough to put on a good show, and by June of this year the production seemed to be off. The big break came when McGuinness met Michael McClung (director of the Hasty Pudding space) at a reception...
...groups, making it easier for shows like Guys and Dolls to go up in the future. The production was strongly supported by the OFA, and also by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, who has been a strong proponent of opening the Pudding space to coed undergraduate theater. Agassiz Director Alan Symonds has been working towards the de-segregation of theater funding and was a major supporter of the production...