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...Tuesday, June 15, seniors and guests will attend Baccalaureate Services at 4 p.m. in Memorial Church. A special performance of "The Beggar's Opera," presented this spring by the Adams House Drama Society, is scheduled for that evening at the Loeb...
...Adams House Drama Society announced yesterday that subject to the of the Faculty Committee on . The Beggar's Opera, directed by Lithgow, will run in the Loeb's commencement slot," June 11-13. The will be substantially the same as of the Adams House March production
Five plays appear on Harvard stages tonight, but the Adams House Drama society has simplified the choice. You can't do much better than Adams' production of The Beggar's Opera. from the beggar's entrance to the full-cast choral finale it bounces with such bawdy, malevolent zest that every minute is a theatrical...
...whores danced at their compatriots' hangings. But they let us know from the start that no one's really going to get hanged, that the raging and weeping histrionics are no more than over-acting (though done with skill and polish), that what we are seeing is only a beggar's tale...
...Lithgow for the gall to undertake such a production and the imagination to make it succeed. His numerous bits of comic stage business, his theatrical playfulness and inventiveness kepp the brief duets as exciting as the raucous tavern scenes and intricate dances. Under Lithgow's broad, farcical hand, The Beggar's Opera sparkles...