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Sophomores did not seem overly concerned about their second reading period. Diana M. Gamser '80 of Quincy House said reading period "hasn't hit me yet. I hope it never does. There's no reason for it (reading period) to instill fear...
...quality and substance of the drama are contained in the interaction of these four characters with the girls next door. The women include Marcie Braddick (Diana Gamser) an innocent, honest and studious girl from the midwest who enjoyed bake sales in high school, Susan Ward (Victoria Allan), a high falutin' preppie from Milton; and Maggie Cochran (Lisa Beach), an aggressive, sexy wise-cracker. Maggie tells Stanley after he shrinks in tension from her sexual advances, "How do you whistle? Just put your lips together and blow...
...rocky start, all the players turn in topnotch performances, with Lisa Beach standing out, intensifying her role with each word. After throwing away her opening lines like most of her cohorts, Beach ends up carrying much of the comedy and dialogue later in the play. Victoria Allan, Diana Gamser and Jim Smith have their roles down perfectly, they don't seem to be acting. The play develops occasional snags with some dead lines from Hoyt and Hall, as well as some zingers that miss. However, Hoyt and Hall center the focus of the play effectively, in spite of their deficiencies...
...unusual brilliance in this respect, achieve more than just competence. Lindsay Davis makes a fine Colleen Allcars, Mark Kiely is impressively diabolical as the evil earl and Jonathan Emerson as his equality villainous accomplice ("efficient, but a strange woman...she's donating her body to science fiction"), and Matthew Gamser is appropriately straightforward as the bassest soprano since The Love for Three Oranges. Best of all, I think, is Peter Zurkow as the perpetually befuddled queen, a well-meaning though not very intelligent Edith Bunker of a monarch who wants to turn back from her escape because she forgot...
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