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...leaving the mainstage performances at night with the more raucous entertainment of the Currier House Cabaret. The Cabaret's first season up at Radcliffe has met with tremendous popularity, and for late-night entertainment it can't be best. Most items on the agenda are definite, and cabaretier Al Franken '72 promises "the best of the Cabaret." But more important, some slots are still open, and people who would like to audition should get in touch with Al. In his words, "the function of the Cabaret is to get Harvard talent that isn't yet structured for things we have...
...SIGNIFICANCE of the Harvard Cabaret's inaugural lies in its proposal to go beyond this weekend and this month to become a permanent center for live entertainment. Producers Vic Budnick, a first-year student at the Law School who did drama work as an undergraduate at Yale, and Al Franken '73--the man behind Nixon!--are looking for material and talent to carry the Cabaret through its initial Spring season. Next weekend will have a musical retrospective with piano and clarinet on the work of Cole Porter. Between shows there will be music and, if a way is found...
...evening entertainment, it's real night life--late night life. You can spend those sleepy early evening hours at the Casablanca, at the Loeb, at the House library and still be in time for 11:30 show at the Harvard Cabaret. If the Cabaret is successful--and if Al Franken knows what's good for him, it better be--it will be an opportunity for undergraduates to try out original material on live audiences...
Blame for it all I'm afraid has to go to Alan Franken who wrote, directed and acts in the show (thus winning himself this week's Junior League Orson Welles Award). Nixon! lacks both the anger and vulgarity that is needed to make this kind of satirical statement compelling. Finally dissolving as it does into a trumped-up finale of song and dance, Nixon! is out to prove nothing but the cleverness of its participants. In the final analysis, it's as much an in-house entertainment as any of those other reviews which bob Hope periodically presents before...
...Alan S. Franken '73, author and director of the production, said he sent the invitation over a month ago by registered mail. "We tried to make the invitation as non-abrasive as we could." Franken said yesterday, and added, "Some people were scared that by some freak, Nixon would accept...