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...with a Hebrew prayer, “Y’varech’cha,” sung by John D. Kapusta ’09. The singers and musicians emerged out of the darkness onstage and the focus moved from the mainstage up to the catwalk above where Arlo D. Hill ’08 sang the triumphant “A Simple Song.”These two numbers established the tone for the evening—a serious look at Bernstein’s music with the utmost attention to detail and musicianship. All of the performers...
...County Mayo claiming to have killed his father. Christy wins the praise of the town and the love of Pegeen Mike (Catrin M. Lloyd-Bollard ’08), a feisty townswoman, for the bravery he affects in his vivid story of patricide; things get complicated when his father (Arlo D. Hill ’08) shows up with a head wound and angry questions.As the final Mainstage of the year, “Playboy” has great expectations to live up to. Fortunately, director Aoife E. Spillane-Hinks ’06 and executive producer Zoe M. Savitsky...
...height of the Vietnam War, Arlo Guthrie wrote a song about littering. The song, “Alice’s Restaurant,” tells the story of a young man who is called before the draft board only to discover that an arrest for littering a few years back makes him ineligible to serve in the Vietnam War, a war he detests. The narrator, asked if he’s rehabilitated himself after his crime, loses his cool. “You got a lot a damn gall,” he explodes...
...last section, B, who is a doctor, treats children in Siberia who have been affected by radioactive waste. She and Yegor Tremens Rodent (Arlo D. Hill ’08), a government functionary, discuss the future of Russia and the world. The scene shifts to heaven, where the little girl (Claire Dickson) treated by B meets two old party leaders who died in the first part. No credit for guessing what they discuss...
RETIRED. William J. Obanhein, 60, tough, taciturn police officer in his native Stock-bridge, Mass., made reluctantly famous when he arrested visiting Folk Singer Arlo Guthrie for littering on Thanksgiving Day 1965, thereby becoming the heavy, "Officer Obie," in Guthrie's talking blues epic, Alice's Restaurant, and in the 1969 hit film in which each played himself; from his position as chief after 34 years on the force because, he said, of his frustration with the courts and smalltown politics; in Stockbridge. Obie and Guthrie, a resident of nearby Washington, Mass., became friends after the clash over trash...