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...Cafe Pamplona. Not only would the necessity of a large stage reduce the already small theater's audience capacity to about twenty, but the Ex is obviously acoustically wrong for large choruses. So recently, musicals have turned up sometimes in Agassiz Theater under the auspices of Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid--an organization that raises scholarship money through musicals--or more often in the far-from-ideal conditions of house dining rooms and common rooms. Even in these cases, no one is out to make things any easier for undergraduate playwright-composers...
Then there was the extensive financial haggling. Eventually, the budget was set at $500, one fifth of which went immediately to orchestration. (The approximate budget set for Loeb mainstage shows this year, considerably lower than that of past years, is $2000. The last Grant-In-Aid production in Agassiz Theater, Fiorello!, was budgeted at about $5500.) Again against all odds, Teeth sold out five of six performances and grossed $1100, making more than 100 per cent net profit...
...would have been hard to ruin this show, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. The Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society production goes beyond mere competence to provide a satisfying evening of entertainment...
...member committee is chaired by Peter L. Borowitz '75, member of the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society and includes representatives from the Harvard Dramatic Club, the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, Hasty Pudding Theatricals and the Lowell, Winthrop and Leverett House drama societies...
...exists, and yet the actual phases of production display a remarkable similarity across the board. If a critic wants to write truly knowledgeable reviews, that critic must begin with the institutional structures that fund theater at Harvard: the House drama societies, the Gilbert and Sullivan Board, the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid Society, Hasty Pudding Theatricals, and at the Loeb Drama Center, the University itself. In the main it is the student portion of these structures which decides who is to produce and direct what play, with what budget, and on what dates during the coming term...