Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very same stage. This year I decided to remove the heels and the hose and distance myself from the show, Yet, given the fact that recently The Hasty Pudding Theatricals has felt more than its usual share of pressure--both internal and external--to re-consider its all-male casting policy, I would like to take this opportunity to clarify what I believe to be the most important facets of the Pudding; and to delineate why it is of utmost importance that the organization include women in its cast...
...decided not to do the show this year not only for scheduling reasons, but, to some extent, because I've always had problems with the content of the shows. Certainly, the composition of the cast had always seemed peculiar to me when I was in the show, but at the time, I thought it was given that the Pudding would remain all-male. Moreover, I felt that was something the Pudding didn't necessarily have to change. The most difficult thing for me to digest was the Pudding's brutal sense of humor. A firm believer in the power...
...intensely aware of its own absurdity and constantly pokes fun at itself and its form. The songs are catchy ("Houdinis of Whodunit") or endearing ("Blue Suede Blues"); and the cast appears to be genuinely enjoying itself on stage. Furthermore, (as these things go) the plot is compelling. (Present-day presidential candidate General Lee Aliar (Jason Mills) threatens to ban Rock 'n Roll in exchange for campaign funding from disco-freak Hal Elujah; in order to save Rock 'n Roll, Elvis impersonator Al Shookup (Seth Fenton) travels back in time from the year 2099 to Philadelphia in 1787, where he elicits...
Still, "Campaign", the creation of two Dunster House roommates Benjamin R. Kaplan '99 and Gregory G. Lau '99, is impressive. The two seniors create a varied cast of stereotyped characters, from the Italian-American barber/womanizer, Donatello Mywife (Michael Roiff), to the not-so-innocent Washington intern, Stella Virgin (Robert Schlesinger); and the script and lyrics they cowrote are often very clever. On the whole, the show never loses a beat...
...good thing they did because Act II wasn't getting any cleaner. In "Tea for Three," for example, the third song in Act II and one of the best examples of the show's lewdness, Stella sings these lines while bending over between two members of the cast (pun intended): "I am in a boil and I am ready to steam/Just drop in a teabag and throw in/plenty of cream...