Word: distaffina
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, the Pudding show has grown to such proportions that Distaffina and the Hollis 11 crew would hardly recognize it. According to publicity manager Gloria R. Beck '85, this year's production has an overall budget of around $180,000, with $22,000 going to costume production and $9000 going to construction of the set. The Theatricals is nonprofit, with the revenue from each show paying the costs of production. This year, however, some of the money made from the show will be set aside to help renovate the Hasty Pudding Theater, which needs a new roof and seats...
...show's tradition goes back to 1844, when the venerable Hasty pudding club-founded in 1795, realized that it had to cast a man in the role of Distaffina in its first play, Bombastes Furioso because there were, of course, no female members...