Word: classics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...films will inaugurate a weekly series of double-features of classic experimental films from the Harvard Film Archives. Beginning next month, films will be shown on Thursdays at 8 and 10:30 p.m. Before each film, the audience will be able to buy espresso, cappucino and cookies at Cafe Gluttony, set up in the back of the room...
When Composer-Lyricist Stephen Sondheim and Director-Librettist James Lapine completed their Pulitzer-prizewinning musical Sunday in the Park with George in 1984, they began exploring two new ideas: to create from scratch a classic myth or fairy tale for the stage and to bring together Lucy, Ralph Kramden and other memorable sitcom characters in a single overlapping story for a TV special. Eventually the two plans sort of fused. Instead of the sitcom figures, the authors decided to jumble larkingly together the characters and archetypes popularized by Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm. The strikingly original yet completely...
Cocteau wove overt references to popular culture into his adaptation of the classic. Hints of thrillers, dime romances and detective films abound in the tale of the poet Orpheus's (Jim May) descent into Hades and return with his bride Eurydice (Magdalena Hernandez). Prascak, perhaps true to Cocteau's intentions, begins the play with a Madonna medley and transforms Death (Jennifer Lyn Bader) into a lovely Material Girl in white...
...thought Rope was just a classic Alfred Hitchcock movie think again, because it saw its first performance on the London stage in 1929. Now it has been revived by Quincy House Theatricals under Oded Salomy's direction...
...first game Harvard has played this year, after only two weeks of practice. Most of the other college teams the Olympians devastated had played at least one warm-up first. This was the classic match-up of age and ability versus youth and inexperience...