Word: awkwardness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...half his age. He comes by his accent naturally, since he was born and raised in Goffstown, New Hampshire, which is near add not unlike the Grover's Corners that the Stage Manager so precisely pinpoints as to longitude and latitude. Backus' George is admirable all the way from awkward adolescence to bereaved husband. A useful preparation for this role was Backus' appealing portrayal, at Harvard's Loeb Theater in 1970, of the similar small town New England teenager who is the focus of O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! (a revival of this lovely play opens tonight at Boston University...
...moping teen-age inhabitants, Reg Dwight, 28, and ever so much better known as Elton John, has become the repository of a million escapist dreams. He is the symbol of the often battered, never completely shattered juvenile faith that no one is too short, too fat, too awkward or parentally despised to be transformed into someone who is not only famous and rich, but-infinitely more important-loved by the multitudes...
...fiddled with my watch chain, adjusted my Grand Canyon lapels, and forged into a gaggle of tweeds. The sallow faces above the collars were debating the relative merits of the various Supreme Court justices they had clerked for. At the next awkward power is the conversion, one of them turned is me. "I'll, you're Andy Klein, aren't you? I was in your freshman dorm. I'm Alex Forbush. What have you been doing with your life?" My mind reeled. Can I tell him I've been washing dishes, driving delivery vans, waiting on tables...
...completing his second year as master of Dunster House, says that unplanned contact between students and associates of the House is rarely successful. "It makes no sense, as I tried last year, to urge senior faculty members to just drop in for a meal by themselves. It's awkward for them." What is important, he feels, is to identify those students who are interested in eating with a particular faculty member. "In general, if a meeting, talk, or dinner is planned, they are usually successful, either on a small or large basis. The job of Housemaster is to keep trying...
Lois Overton's set design, three tableaux that fit bedroom, kitchen, and bar into the small stage, moves the action smoothly around the stage, although actors occasionally wander out of their spots, and the lighting is awkward at times. The skill of John Kirkwood's direction is apparent in the timing, humor and vitality of the show, especially in the bar scenes, when a brilliant supporting cast of Harlem characters continually brings the house down. Don Gillespie as Henry, Minnie's boyfriend; Sary Guinier as Lynn Clarisse, another of Jess's cousins; and Paul Ruffins as Brandon, a drunk...