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...addition to the study groups, 17 per cent of independent work courses are listed as "extra curricular" in nature in Fox's report. Details of those courses were not included, but a similar report last year showed ballroom dancing and aviation courses to be popular...
...take Vienna out of Strauss is like trying to perform a heart transplant--you'd better have the replacement handy. The first act, for example, could as easily be set in Yonkers as in Vienna. True, the Lowell dining hall has little potential to be converted into a ballroom, but Lowell Opera gives up in despair from the start...
...Strauss's score. Worse, they muddle even further a typically inane--though enjoyable--operetta plot. "Fledermaus" means "bat," but the title has almost no relation to the story of marital cheatings, mixed identities, and revenge. In fact, as the plot wanders from Eisenstein's home to Orlofsky's ballroom to the local jail, you realize that it's all just an excuse for the dance music. In the famous trio "So muss allein ich bleiben" ("I must remain alone, then"), Rosalinda--whom Gretchen Johnson plays with vocal agility but no sense of style--begins lamenting her parting with husband Einstein...
Bowersock also cited other examples of "fringe" courses for which students have received credit in past years. "We have had students taking flying lessions and learning ballroom dancing," he said...
Friday, March 2--Movie: "Animal Crackers" and "3 Stooges" at Levin Ballroom, 7:30 p.m. & 10 p.m., Admission...