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Inside the theater, the pace picks up immediately. A laboratory set reveals the head of Walt Disney, played by Lorenzo Moreno '00, flanked by Albert Einstein (Scott Brown '98) and Mary Lou Retton (Kate DeLima '97). Moreno uses his head to wonderful effect, betraying 1,001 emotions throughout the course of the play...
...strengths of "Virtual School" are the strengths of "Small World Order": the play works best when it functions as pure satire. But when Rand attempts to seriously critique the Disney Empire for its insensitivity to minorities and women and for its culture of conformity, his dialogue is clunky, overly obvious and heavy-handed...
...well integrated within the play as the main characters are. When performed, several of the pieces come off as awkward and unrehearsed. The one exception (which may in fact excuse the rule) was certainly the seamless crowd-favorite "Virtual School," a witty, fast-paced description of the Disney curriculum for children...
Another example of satirical excellence is the play-within-the-play, "Disney's Adam and Eve," featuring an effortless Darin Goulet '97, singing in his best "I-m-gettin'-nothin'-for-Christmas" voice, and Jessamyn Conrad '00, a convincing temptress. The serpent, played by Chuck O'Toole '97, also makes an intense cameo...
...Like a Disney ride, "Small World Order" proved to be worth waiting in line for--mainly because it was generally amusing--nothing overly outrageous, just plain wholesome entertainment...