Word: byes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WALL STREET: Bye Bye Brokers...
...start of the turnabout may fairly be dated to the night Rivera saw the original version as a guest of Kander and Ebb. Like the critics, she wasn't enchanted: "The stage was so big that the tension just went bye-bye, there was so much space between the two men in that cell." Tactfully, her hosts did not tell her she had been considered, and passed over, for the title role as the fantasy creature of the decorator's reveries. Having cast an actress a generation younger, they belatedly realized they needed, as Rivera laughingly phrases it, "a diva...
That would insure a first-round bye and the blessing of not having to play Maine--which is certain to be ranked first in the East--until the Final Four in Milwaukee...
...because of its 4-2 Beanpot win over Boston University, Harvard should get the number two bid in the East, allowing the Crimson a first-round bye and the gift of not having to play Maine until the finals of the tournament...
...there is even more on the line than the sought after 'Pot. With the Crimson's recent loss to RPI, Harvard and BU are also battling over the right to the second spot in the East behind Maine. And that ranking may mean the difference between a first-round bye and an extra trip to Michigan (and Detroit, of all places) come NCAA Tournament time...