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Finally, the real Nerd shows up in the form of one Rick Steadman (Daren Firestone). Willum invites him to his house because Steadman saved his life in Vietnam (shades of goody-goody Forrest Gump). Steadman's entrance is suspenseful because he wears a costume to conceal his identity. Tripping from one faux paux to the next and yet utterly naive about it, Steadman is the stereotypical nerd, but more abrasive, more annoying and goonier. He's a nerd's wet dream. Firestone sounds like Pee-Wee Herman with emphysema...
...Catherine deLima). Anne is much younger than her husband, Fredrik (Colin Stokes), and wants to preserve her virginity. So Fredrik seeks satisfaction in his old romance, Desiree (Lacey Tucker), whose theater troupe is passing through town. The affair is not long without complications. Desiree's jealous lover Carl-Magnus (Daren Firestone), a moronic dragoon who loves to fight, shows up just as the two lovers are emerging from her bedroom, and soon he is complaining of the infidelity of his wife Charlotte (Vonnie Roemer). Charlotte is down but not defeated and sets about planning to win him back. A weekend...
...interplay between Daren Firestone and Lizzy Marlantes, who portray the newly engaged Mortimer and Elaine, is sarcastic and sexy. As the only level-headed characters in the play, Firestone and Marlantes hold their own as a comic couple. Marlantes draws as much humor as she can out of a role which is overwhelmed by the hyperactivity of the others...
That they do is largely a tribute to Daren Firestone and Nora Dicke, who play the unlikely protagonists who fall in love while working in a plant shop. Firestone is perfect as the nerdy nice guy Seymour who dreams of a life beyond Mr. Mushnik's plant shop. "I've given you sunshine, I've given you dirt/you've given me nothing but heartache and hurt," he sings plaintively to the strange plant "Audrey II" in his first number. Firestone has a good voice and is convincing in his later scenes of moral crisis...
...Sandinistas may have lost power, said Daren S. Aronofsky '91, a COCA member, but "This isn't going to slow us down." Aronofsky said COCA plans to continue to educate Harvard on the "real" story of the Central American people, and to fight against U.S. intervention into Nicaraguan affairs...