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When you call Alan P. Symonds '69 at the Agassiz Theatre, a taped voice on the answering machine claims you've reached "the Harvard-Radcliffe Technical Support Line...
...with the decision two weeks ago to replace Symonds, the technical director for students at the Loeb Drama Center and the Agassiz, many students fear theater at Harvard will become an even more difficult endeavor...
Check the program of almost any show--a musical at the Loeb Mainstage, a house production, CityStep, a comedy at the Agassiz--and you will find his name, usually with a preface along the lines of: "and our eternal special thanks to technical wizard Alan Symonds." As the interim undergraduate technical director of the Loeb Theatre, Symonds far surpasses his official duties in his support of student theater. He attends preliminary planning meetings for productions and points out which plans are technically feasible and which would literally go crashing through the ceiling. He patiently shows inexperienced techies how to build...
Symonds, who has been working with student theater groups at Harvard for more than a decade, spends evenings going from the Agassiz to the Loeb to house performance spaces, helping techies "put-in" upwards of four shows a night. With a student theater community of more than 500, Symonds is almost the only professional resource available--particularly to the bulk of the shows that are performed outside the Loeb...
...best things you can say about Melody Scheiner's production of The Gondoliers is that it improves significantly after the first 10 minutes. If you survive the excruciatingly slow painful beginning without running, screaming, out of the Agassiz you will be rewarded with the entertaining performances of the several accomplished leads. But all the talent in the world doesn't quite redeem a production marked mostly by its slow pace and stale direction. The funnier moments of the Gilbert and Sullivan operates do shine through the dreariness but it is depressing to see such a fine cast wasted...