Word: buttaro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THREE of Hoss' buddies give terrific back-up performances. David " 'Vid" Buttaro and Randal Jean Baptiste provide moments of refreshing comic relief as astrologer and general space cadet Starman and hip deejay Galactic Jack. In addition, Glenn Kiser's clever portrayal of Hoss' doctor, a cowboy-boot-wearing drug supplier, leaves the audience wishing Shepard had given this character more lines...
...actors cast in these smaller roles team up in the second act for an amusing group vocal performance of "Slips Away," which they sing as the beaten Hoss lies catatonic on the floor. Clad in 50's-style tuxedo jackets, Buttaro, Baptiste, Kiser and John Byrd (Hoss' friend, Cheyenne) perform this absolute best of all The Tooth of Crime's songs...
...time of the accident, Ross was wearing the jacket of his room-mate, Joshua B. Goldstine '90. The Harvard Police on the scene found a slip of paper in the jacket pocket which had Goldstine's name on it and incorrectly identified Ross as Goldstine, said David J. Buttaro '90, another roommate. "Later...they found his wallet," Buttaro said...
...Philip Brittan) loves Cathy (Julie Scott), who seems as sweet and innocent as her boyfriend, except for some not too casually dropped hints about her suppressed sordid tendencies. The better-defined characters in Jonny and Cathy's large coterie include the disturbed Cider (played with scenerychewing gusto by David Buttaro), who carries a book of Nietzsche in one hand and a bottle in the other; Isaiah (Jason Cogan), who is a first year Harvard Law student and big-brother figure to Jonny; Mare (Jennifer Hodges), a tough whore; and Strawberry (Lena Strayhorn), a flirtatious ditz...
...What's so exciting is that the musical is acompletely original one, and we get to add our ownideas to what these characters might be like inreal life," Buttaro said...