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Crowding conditions are totally unpredictable, according to Carol Finn, assistant to the master in Dunster House.She said the situation has improved slightly thisyear because more students took time off and movedoff campus than before...
...MICKEY FINN--peacemaker...
...Trousers, currently in production at the Lyric Stage, is a small play with big ambitions. In its Boston premiere, the William Finn musical is the first of the "Marvin" trilogy that Finn and James Lapine went on to complete, and while Falsettos, the Tony Award-winning combination of the latter two plays, has received much acclaim, the first one-act has merits...
...four members of the cast have strong stage experience behind them and deliver rousing renditions of Finn's score. Accompanied solely by percussionist Paula Rich and pianist Gerald Moshell, the cast's collective performance stand up to the demands of musical theater for a dynamic multiplicity of talents. Moshell, too, is the embodiment of a multiplicity of talents--playing piano is the least of his contributions to "In Trousers." Moshell holds full production and direction responsibilities for the play's Boston run, as he did when he staged the first-ever production of the entire trilogy of "Marvin musicals" last...
Blame it all on Mark Twain. His novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn established not only the quest theme for 20th century American literature but also the matter and manner of kids' movies. Sommers' brisk, pretty version of Huck's wayward youth gets most of Twain's words right, even if the music sounds like a TV jingle. Huck (plucky Elijah Wood) eludes his troglodyte father (Ron Perlman, doing an uncanny Tom Waits impression) for an eventful honeymoon on a raft with Nigger Jim (just plain Jim here, in a nicely balanced performance by Courtney B. Vance). Huck...