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...shimmering in pale pink tutus. To the lilting, romantic strains of Cesare Pugin's 18th century composition, four renowned (and infamously conceited) ballerinas of the past were recreated in all their beauty and gracious snobbery on the stage by four equally-beautiful Harvard undergraduate ballerinas. On Saturday night, Elizabeth Darst '99, Allison Lane '02 , Liz Santuro '01, and Davis '99 each elegantly claimed the stage with quick footwork, amazing poise and seemingly infinite amounts of grace...
...shimmering in pale pink tutus. To the lilting, romantic strains of Cesare Pugni's 18th century composition, four renowned (and infamously conceited) ballerinas of the past were recreated in all their beauty and gracious snobbery on the stage by four equally-beautiful Harvard undergraduate ballerinas. On Saturday night, Elizabeth Darst '99, Allison Lane '02, Liz Santuro '01 and Mai'a Davis '99 each elegantly claimed the stage with quick footwork, amazing poise and seemingly infinite amounts of grace...
...crazily wonderful as the guys in the show are, the dolls--er, women--are their perfect match. All of the "Hot Box" Girls (who double as "extra dolls" and Cuban dancers)--Elizabeth Darst, Jody Flader, Mari Foreman, Esther Riggen, Jamie Smith and Phoebe Taubman--give performances of a lifetime. As "Hot Box" girls, they cackle and strut with such all-out campiness that it defies words (the "A Bushel and a Peck" number wins my vote for "Funniest Thing I've Ever Seen on a Harvard Stage"), and the spicy Havana dance scene both awes the audience members and heats...
...People were making a big fuss in those days because a dog was caught in Lamont Library--but a woman could not get in," remembers Caroline Greve Darst...
...there was some good in all these inequities, Darst says. "In a very rough way, Radcliffe prepared you for the real world because you learned how to fight," she says...