Word: furioso
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...tuition for the 2009-2010 school year: $33,696 Number of members in the cast of Acropolis Now, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 161st Show: 12 Number of performances put on this year: 38 Year of the staging of the HPT’s first production, Bombastes Furioso: 1844 Age of Paul Dudley, class of 1690, the youngest person ever to be admitted to Harvard: 10 Estimated IQ of Willian James Sidis, class of 1909, a child prodigy who entered Harvard at age 11: 300 Number of books stolen fron Widener library found in the home of a University...
...Pudding members decided that the mock trials had run their course. Lemuel Hayward, Class of 1845, borrowed a plot from a stage play that had been produced in Boston’s Tremont Theatre and created Bombastes Furioso, a “tragicomic opera.” The Pudding’s all-male company cast Augustus F. Hinchman, Class of 1845, in the coveted drag role of Distaffina. The burlesque was staged on December 13, 1844, in Hollis 11 before an audience of Hasty Pudding members...
...time, the club expanded so much that the College gave the organization a room in Holworthy Hall to serve as a library. Even with this success, change was still in the air, and the club evolved from mock trial to pure drama in 1844 with the presentation of "Bombastes Furioso" by Lemuel Hayward in Hollis. According to the catalogue, by 1849, the metamorphosis was complete and the society moved into a space in the north entry of Stoughton Hall. The 1850s and 1860s featured seven or eight shows a season...