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...code to allow deductions for investments in ventures considered worthwhile but risky, like coal mining, oil drilling and public housing construction. The shelters encouraged the wealthy to invest chunks of income that would otherwise have been heavily taxed. The problem was that in some cases lawyers and accountants found clever ways to make such investments appear much larger on paper than they actually were. In 1976 a major revision of the tax code eliminated some of the most abused shelter provisions...
...YEOMEN OF THE GUARD is a Gilbert and Sullivan curveball. It skips along in familiar G & S style: the mistaken identities, the thwarted romances, the brutally clever patter, all set to a jolly, stirring score. Yet throughout the operetta there runs an uncharacteristic current of grandeur and sobriety--just when the final scene seems to be resolving itself with happy Gilbertian expedience, the leading character staggers onto the stage and dies a prolonged, hideous death...
...inventiveness of despair, Carrie suggests that she and Oliver have a pretend-affair of their own to win their spouses back. The working of the ruse and the very clever denouement are as sacrosanct as the secrets of the confessional and the whodunit...
Amateurism is easier to spot in dancing than in singing or acting, but the clever choreography, done by Cyndi Silva, keeps Dames at Sea moving without overburdening the actors. And this earnest, lip-biting, Ruby Keeleresque style suits the script and the spirit of the show...
BOTH BRIAN MCCUE and Grace Shohet have displayed considerable talent over the last few years in Harvard theater but have emerged with somewhat limited personae--McCue as a clever, charming but extremely mannered performer who shines in musicals and farces, Shohet as a technically competent but brash actress whose specialty is destructive bitchiness. I looked forward to seeing them as Vanya and Sonya because both parts would demand a considerable stretch, a certain nakedness that neither has hitherto displayed. But instead of stretching to their parts, both have stretched the parts to accommodate themselves. Shohet has made Sonya, the most...