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Andy Borowitz '80, author-director of Gars and Goyles, is treading near the edge of the Inferno with his creation. A loose musical adaptation of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the fall production of the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society suffers the fate of many similar musicals that break from the gate with fast scores, only to get bogged down in the backstretch with a muddy script. Borowitz's music and lyrics are undoubtedly first-rate, but his book is simply ridden with too many stale jokes to carry the action. As the playwright's first effort...
...Matthews's advise to would-be soothsayers is: "You have to have a good math background, know what statistical methods are available and how to use them, and a high-speed computer." ZBIKOWSKI The Top Ten MATTHEWS 1. Texas 1. Texas 2. Ohio St. 2. Ohio St. 3. Notre Dame 3. Notre Dame 4. Kentucky 4. Kentucky 5. Penn St. 5. Michigan 6. Nebraska 6. Pittsburgh 8. Alabama 7. Alabama 9. Oklahoma 8. Arkansas 10. N. Carolina 9. Penn St. 1. Penn by 2 Ivy Predictions 1. Harvard by 4 2. Brown by 4 2. Brown by 1 3. Yale...
...Notre Dame and Penn State were among the suitors, and Paul recalls the trip to Duke where "it was like everything you hear about recruiting. You know, a hotel room, the offer of a girl for the weekend." But then the good looking irishman blushed and in the process reaffirmed his All-Americanism--"I turned her down...
...Goyles, the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aide show opening tonight, is just a mispronunciation of the title of a story you've heard some place before, then you're only partly wrong. Writer-director Andy Borowitz '79 says that his new musical comedy is based on "The Hunchback of Notre Dame." But it's also, Borowitz claims, "a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical except the leading man doesn't have good posture." "America has been begging for a good family musical about a hunchback for a long time," Borowitz says (only partly joking). With its big, brassy production numbers, "Gars...
...exasperated with Thalberg's revisionist notions, which included the resurrection of the serious romantic plotline--a tedious device that had been abandoned after the Marx Brothers' first two pictures "The Cocoanuts" and "Animal Crackers"--and "A Night at the Opera features Allan Jones and To Tell the Truth Grand Dame Kitty Carlisle as a pair of nauseatingly naive and boring singing lovers. But even they are not enough to sink a film featuring the redoubtable Margaret Dumont and authored by (among others) George S. Kaufman, S. J. Perelman, and 300-pound miracle worker Al Boasberg, who wrote the famous stateroom...