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While the return of its backfield is Harvard’s biggest pre-game story, by the conclusion of Saturday’s match-up the spotlight will probably have shifted to another offensive star. Junior wide receiver Carl Morris is within striking distance of three Harvard career records...
...three Harvard amigos actually wrote their first project in 1958, a comedy about the ongoing space race called “Countdown!,” which debuted in 1960 as a “modest production” in Leverett House. Carl remembers, “I grew up in a home with musical theater–my father was a piano player, and I sang in the high school Glee Club, so I knew about 2000 songs by the time I got here. I then found Steve [Price] who loved musical theater as well, and we got together...
Fast forward to the 35th reunion, where the seed for “Reunion” was planted when Carl sang a few show tunes at the festivities’ variety show. Kline remembers, “After the show, I e-mailed him saying, ‘Hey, your songs were really good...want to collaborate on writing a musical or something?’ We then batted ideas back and forth by e-mail and started putting something together...
...Carl explains, “We based the musical on the red books, the Class Reports, and the discrepancy between the image that’s put forth and the reality. People write in saying impressive things, like they’ve been promoted at work or that they’ve just bought a Burgundian vineyard, when in reality, their marriage is on the rocks and they’ve been going through some tough times...
Offstage, Philip Carl teaches molecular biology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Dan Klein is a writer, and Stephen Price is a practicing psychoanalyst who teaches at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis in Brookline. Carl noted, “This musical is about all the things you can’t learn while at Harvard–we certainly couldn’t have written it at your age...We didn’t want to write about Vietnam, women’s liberation, or any of the other major things–we wanted to write...