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...presentation at the Kennedy/Longfellow School last Wednesday, Cambridge Public School District Superintendent Thomas Fowler-Finn said Cambridge schools ranked 311th out of the 373 Massachusetts school districts—a list that includes both districts and individual charter schools—on the statewide MCAS exams required for high school graduation...
With witty, lightweight songs by William Finn (March of the Falsettos), the show is, first of all, a funny spoof of the rituals of these contests--from the up-close-and-personal commentary, delivered in earnest half-whisper by the moderator ("Mr. Barfee has a sea anemone circus in his basement"), to the ridiculously unhelpful sentences meant to put the words in context ("Sally's mother told her it was her cystitis that made her special"). The show also, more distractingly, partakes in the current Broadway fad of audience participation: four civilians each night are selected to go onstage...
...Broadway improv group called The Farm--whose director, Rebecca Feldman, had never quite got over misspelling the word bruise in a grade-school bee. Playwright Wendy Wasserstein, whose nanny was in the cast, went to see it and alerted her friend, composer Finn. He turned it into a musical, which was staged first in Sheffield, Mass., before making the return trip to New York City...
...their inner nerd. He told them to bring in pictures of themselves as kids, and he put them up in the rehearsal hall. "I could see who these people were at 11, 10 and 12," says Lapine. "It was so revealing. In an ineffable way, it helped the process." Finn once described the show as a "Survivor for nerds," but he means that in only the nicest way. "I know these people," he says. "I am one of these people. We all feel a little outside the mainstream sometimes. And these people have finally found where they feel comfortable...
...last question that moderator Meredith A. Finn ’05, who is also a Crimson editor, posed to the panel asked how young women should respond to the perceived obstacles standing between them and tenure...