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...FinkFankFunk band member Ari K. Appel `03 said he expects the concert to be well-received by students...
...band now showcases a powerful brass section of Daniel Rhodes '01 on trumpet and Eric Rosenbaum '01 on trombone; a groovy sax section of Alec Spiegelman '03 on alto, Alexander Scammon on baritone and Jake Fleming '01 on tenor; Ari Appel '02 on guitar; Mike Large '01 on keyboard and the band's only off campus member, Brett Rautenberg, on drums...
...interesting features of summer theatre is the overlap within the individual productions. Senior Jay Chaffin transformed from a condemned Spaniard-with-a-song-in-his-heart into a gambling New Orleans philanderer; Ari Appel '03, the guitarist in La Mancha's orchestra, took a turn across the boards as Stanley in Streetcar. Dan Cozzens '03, in a rather peculiar instance of ethnic globalization, went from Russian to Mexican in a matter of weeks...
Under the veteran direction of Naeemah White-Peppers, postwar New Orleans lurches into being, subtle jazz languishing on the breeze before fading into silence. The simple home of Stanley (Ari Appel '03) and Stella (Christine Nichols '01) Kowalski, rendered in a pastiche of gritty realism and abstract whimsy by designer Pete Wilson '99, becomes a battle ground where Stanley and Blanche DuBois (Sara Newbold '00), Stella's indigent sister, square off in a frantic struggle for survival...
...unfortunate for this production that Williams's characters describe one another in such vivid detail. While Newbold's Blanche is certainly striking as a misplaced flower already begun to wilt, she struggles to maintain her own illusions, making it difficult for the audience to feel for her misfortunes. Likewise, Appel's Stanley rises to moments of animal force, but these pass as quickly as they come; Appel flits between an appealing, carnal alternative to the decaying Southern gentry of the Belle Reve and a brutish cartoon of an abusive husband. Of the three main characters, the most appealing is Nichols...