Word: cohn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Juri E. Henley-Cohn '00 was victim to a classic pre-frosh dilemma in April 1996. The bed-switch. "My pre-frosh host was a good childhood friend of mine," he explains. "She had three other roommates, one of which had a friend visiting that weekend. The roommate and her visiting friend were both going to leave early the next morning, so they decided to sleep on the common room futon (where l was supposed to have slept). This way, they would not wake anyone when they got up." Unfortunately, Juri ended up sleeping in the roommate...
...Jerusalem Disease, and itbecomes boring by the time Shrier actually forceshis narrator to explain it. The unsubtlety of theplot is compounded by the clumsiness of thedirect-address monologue through which the moralis conveyed: the play begins and ends with thecentral character, Noah Feldshriber--played byJuri E. Henley-Cohn '00--helping the audiencethrough any possible confusion...
...teen soap-operatradition--does not dwell for too long on anyparticular mini-conflict but also to the actors,who as a group were much better with movement andmelodramatic expressions of emotion than withsubtle feeling and delivery. Matt MacInnis '02(playing Jason Rosner) is a very good andconvincing screamer; Henley-Cohn is a fine stagepresence, and has a considerable amount of(misplaced, in this play) sex appeal; and JayChaffin '00 (as the rebellious Elliot Dachs, butreminiscent of nobody more than Seinfeld's George)has a very good sense of comic timing, despite atiresome tendency to yell a great deal more thannecessary...
...dancing! Oh, the dancing! Such fare is rarely seen on a Harvard stage, and is almost never pulled off with this much energy and ingenuity. It's almost impossible to believe that Guys and Dolls is the first production that Jim Augustine '01 (who, incidentally, played Roy Cohn in last year's spectacular Angels in America) has ever choreographed. As mentioned earlier, the "Hot Box" numbers bring campiness to delightful new heights; in addition, "The Crapshooters' Dance" stuns and enchants with the intensity and intricacy of the moves. Choreographing a well-loved musical is tricky; one wants to create original...
Marcantonio was Lisa Pon's personal point of departure as well: "The idea actually started when I was studying last year for my exams. I was pulling out all of the Marcantonio prints and Marjorie Cohn [Carl A. Weyerhauser Curator of Prints] asked me if I wanted to do a show." Marcantonio was a rather infamous counterfeiter in his time. He is considered the preeminent reproductive engraver, "the first and the best." For Pon the show began as a meditation on Marcantonio's copies of Durer, but evolved because she wanted to put those prints (the ones in the hallway...