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Harvard’s theater community will produce several standbys—rather than modern musicals—this fall, which is almost certainly indicative of directorial preference and not risk aversion. This semester, the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) will present three musical productions in the Agassiz Theater (including the revolutionary classic “A Chorus Line”) and one musical in the Loeb Experimental Theater this semester. The show in the Ex, called “Company,” features music and lyrics by the venerable Stephen Sondheim of “West Side Story?...
...Dean] was cleaning out the Agassiz, and she’s found the spotlight that was used at the very first Woodstock,” says Nicholas J. Shearer...
Elizabeth Dean, Assistant Technical Director for College Theatre Programs, is currently taking on Symonds’ role as the College liaison for the shows being produced in the nearby Agassiz Theater...
...greeted by a pleasant voicemail with two names and phone numbers that could probably help solve the problem. I always meant to call him back. I never heard the fire speech—Alan’s famous safety talk, which he repeated before every show in the Agassiz Theatre. I never had a chance to work with him on a show; nor do I have that many stories about him or about us. Since his departure, however, I have enjoyed listening to the stories of others. Those who knew him felt his immortality every minute of his presence, both...
Alan P. Symonds ’69, the technical director of Harvard College Theatre Programs and a mainstay of the Harvard dramatic community for decades, died Tuesday, June 21 of a heart attack while working late at the Agassiz Theatre. He was 59.Symonds, who first ran the light board for a show in his freshman year at Harvard, had been technical director since 1993. In addition to his work on shows at the Agassiz Theatre, he advised many other productions on campus, including all house productions. He oversaw thirty to forty shows a year, according to Jack Megan, director...