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...Degrees" greatest asset remains John Guare's dazzling script. With humor and affection, it pokes fun at everything from marriage ("My wife is a dada manifesto"), to Cats ("Aeschylus did not invent theater to have it end with a bunch of chorus kids wondering which of them will go to Kitty Kat Heaven."), to Harvard students, ("Is that all I am? An investment?"). At the same time it captures with great compassion and understanding the tragic fears and disappointments in the lives of those who seem to have...
...fact that the Bush administrationcriticized Aristide's relatively minor record isindicative of the Reagan and Bush administrations'"delicate sensitivity about Human Rights," saidChomsky to a chorus of snickers from the audience
...musical comedy--ahhh, we know thee well. From Broadway to the high school auditoriums across this fair nation, musical comedies occupy a cherished place in the arts. We remember rousing chorus numbers and witty repartee. We remember warmed hearts and corny love scenes. Ambitious, yes. Alas, it's proven too ambitious for the Harvard stage, or at least this Harvard stage...
...extraordinary youth who is in search of something to be extraordinary at. Pippin satirizes the genre while at the same time reveling in it. Unfortunately, in this production, neither the satire nor the reveling are fully realized. Pippin requires outrageous, over-the-top caricature and outrageous, over-the-top chorus numbers, neither of which it receives here...
...they should have. Or perhaps it would be better to say it was impossible for them to go as far as they should have. This show properly belonged on the mainstage, with a much larger cast, stage and budget. As it was, the small chorus seemed hard-pressed to avoid bumping into props during the big production numbers. The cramped choreography also served to restrain the enthusiasm of the songs. All in all, it's hard to avoid the impression that, in this case at least, bigger might have been better...