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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Given the merits of the production’s highest points of ingenuity and creativity, it comes as a disappointment that the show’s culminating achievement—the oft-cited descent of a crepe paper ceiling that swallows the audience into a psychadellic human collage—rests solely (and literally) in the hands of the audience. The performers demonstrate that they are capable of carrying the experience on their own performative merits, so we must wonder why they do not even attempt to do so in the equivalent of their 11 o’clock number...

Author: By Matthew Hudson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Something Blue: Blue Man Group Tubes | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

...kinds of cheese and sausage, two kinds of flour, four kinds of sugar, appropriate spices, pots and pans of all sizes and appropriate machinery. Second, the slow and deliberate assembly (see #4). Finally, the open-ended consumption of the meal: half-an-omelette, walk the dog, read the paper, crepe, bubble bath, write a paper, walk the dog, hot chocolate with steamed milk, write column...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Decadence | 12/18/2000 | See Source »

Other protestors were doctrinaires: the death penalty, poverty, political venality. To draw the cameras to their signs and slogans, they would run crepe paper around traffic lights and street signs at an intersection, forming a quick square into which they would jump and begin the chants they would use until their arrest...

Author: By Matthew F. Quirk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Protesters Gather in Philidelphia | 8/4/2000 | See Source »

...dance, can't sing, can't compose. By all accounts, Bjork behaved like a bjerk during filming, and she skipped the press conference, only to show up on the red-carpeted steps of the Grand Palais in a blushing-pink gown that seemed to be made of bunched crepe paper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Catnip for Film Connoisseurs | 5/29/2000 | See Source »

...know--they probably went to Harvard. Too many people here have been told that the world is their oyster. And, they've been told far too many times. We all have an exceptional aptitude for academics, but we are not gods or royalty. The student in the crepe shop, like so many here, had clearly forgotten the distinction between a high SAT score and divine right. To be fair, Harvard has done nothing to remind...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Remembering Harvard | 5/22/2000 | See Source »

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