Word: choruses
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unquestionably a good musical comedy--fully as good as the average we have had in Boston this season. The dialogue is unusually clever and witty, and then is a semblance of a plot. The most out standing feature of the production is the excellent and attractive chorus. In this Hammerstein has shown some originality and considerable skill. The staging of the play could hardly be improves upon and the scenery shows real talent and appreciation of theatric effect. But here we stop...
...general staging of "Step This Way" is faultless, the carnival scene being particularly effective. In the chorus, however, much is lacking, which might escape notice were this body not so frequently in evidence, but since no remarkable dancing is seen and this, coupled with an absence of beauty, we wonder for what function this good old American Institution is intended; if just to pass the time we lose patience, for we long ago have ceased to expect real singing...
...annual meeting of the University Alumni Chorus the officers for 1915-16 were re-elected, and plans made for the coming season. The chorus has be gun the study of Oedipus of Sophocles, the music for which is by John Knowles Paine...
...were wholly out of place, and have the latter revivify all his old business, which was once pleasing, but might well have been buried long ago. One continually looked for a deus-ex-machina to appear, but he evidently was not so disposed. The settings were attractive and the chorus also, but even these essentials were not sufficient to make one leave the play-house in any frame of mind, but that he had been gulled. Who was to blame was a natural query...
Work started on 1917 Technology Show yesterday, when the show books were called in for the first reading. All preparations, save production, will be made before mid-years, shortly after which rehearsals for cast and chorus will begin. The school orchestra tried for the first time last year has been declared a success, and will travel with the show this year...