Word: dictional
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...producer Nicholas H. Ma ’05 says the Pudding is all about “plays on words and wit,” which Schmitnick has taken to heart with character names like Lynn Guist, Graham Urr and the Diction Fairy...
Putnam is in charge of props along with Cara Zimmerman ’05, whose prop ideas include a riding crop for militaristic character Xavier Self, as well as a wand and other accoutrements for the Diction Fairy...
...people around him: his mom is obsessed with fancy appliances, an opportunistic TV reporter is obsessed with his career, young women are obsessed with getting rich (except for the ones who have hearts of gold, of course). All dialogue in Vernon God Little is rendered in strenuously lifelike Texan diction ("Six packa Coors, I'll go git it") larded with hick malapropisms--you know you're not supposed to like Little's mom because she calls Ricardo Montalban "Ricardo Moltenbomb." Pierre has a field day with the alienated apercus...
...stock. Her perfunctory responses to Judge Miriam Cedarbaum's questions (Did she understand the charges? Did she need them read aloud?) were barely audible. But when Cedarbaum asked for a plea, Stewart's response--"Not. Guilty."--rang out like a bell, with the first t enunciated in the clipped diction familiar to anyone who has ever followed her instructions to plunge blanched green beans into a bowl of "ice water...
...starlet Lilli Vanessi (Jean M. Flannery ’04), whose offstage feud affects the performance of a musical version of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew in which the two co-star. Its top-drawer Porter score, filled with tricky diction and prankster flourishes, encourages performances that are expansive, even shamelessly theatrical...