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Keeping warm, if you must work at it over a period of time, is an exhausting business. It's hard to stay clean. The effort (chopping wood, building fires, heating water) coats you with a fine sweat, like a delicate machine oil, which then acquires admixtures of woodsmoke and ash. If the hot-water heater is gone, you don't wash much, or thoroughly...
...Giant-sized GameBoy props flank the proscenium. Their screens work like big TVs, showing montages of the cartoon show to accompany songs, or sometimes displaying a close-up of one of the actors. The story opens as Ash Ketchum (Dominic Nolfi), the leading human of the Pokemon universe, and his pals Misty (Heidi Weyhmueller) and Brock (Dennis Kenney) set off on a trip to win the Diamond Badge, the rarest of all prizes given to Pokemon trainers...
...magical ways. It has been oriented entirely around pet creatures, the Pokemon, that start out cute and cuddly but can be trained to become fierce fighting monsters. They are then pitted in battles, like dog- or cockfighting, where they sustain pain and injury until a clear "winner" remains. Ash is a 10-year-old trainer, though for the stage show he and his friends were played by twenty-somethings. (This becomes disconcerting when his mother, looking the same age as him, laments his turning into a man; and Misty, who harbors a secret love for Ash, has moved well beyond...
...Unfortunately Ash and company's quest turns out to be a plot by the evil Team Rocket, led by the dastardly Giovanni (Daren Dunstan), who use Pokemon in hopes of taking over the world. Giovanni has built Mecha-Mew2, a mechanical Pokemon capable of learning all Pokemon attack skills and returning them even more powerfully. The only remaining skills to learn are possessed by Pikachu, Ash's favorite Pokemon...
...Ash Somani, president of MIT's Phi Beta Epsilon fraternity, said Krueger's death was a wake-up call to the campus...