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...Professor Herschbach has always been known for his off-the-wall humor. We had him do a couple of chemistry experiments. I think it went off really well," says Lee L. Eichen '89, a member of the Veritones...
...Veritones, now in their third year, started off as a group of freshmen who had attended freshman-week auditions "that were so crowded we couldn't even leave our names," says co-founder Eichen. "We put together our own group of 16 freshmen just to see what we could do and have been together ever since," he says...
...plot is a fast-paced blend of theatrical parody, stock farce, and typical British silliness. Frederick (Lee Eichen), ex-apprentice to a gang of nice-guy pirates, is torn between loyalty to his former masters and his moral duty to turn them in. To complicate matters, he has fallen in love with the daughter (Lisa Zeidenberg) of the local Major General (Andrew Gardner) who is bent on the pirates' destruction. How does Frederick escape from this frightfully sticky wicket? Suffice to say that the resolution is as silly as it is stirring...
This is especially true of songs which are especially rapid, such as the Major General's song (admirably dispatched nevertheless by Gardner), or particularly soft, such as the duet between Mabel and Frederick (Lee Eichen). But on the whole such moments are rare and really nothing more than slight flaws on an otherwise extremely strong production...
...fact, the idea behind the Veritones was promted by the overwhelming interest in performing in one of the very popular groups. When more than 200 aspirants showed up to audition for the five spots in Harvard's coed singing group, the Opportunes, Lee L. Eichen '89 decided it was time to start his own group...