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Northeastern University has an overenrollment problem this fall, and to accommodate 150 transfer students the school has leased the top two floors of the Boston YMCA, adjacent to the school's campus. The floors have effectively been turned into Northeastern dormitories. A new metal grate across the building's stairways shuts off the sixth and seventh floors from the rest of the building, so that the only access is an elevator which a security guard watches. And while the rest of the YMCA has 11 p.m. parietals, the top floors stay open for traffic all night...
...singing. Delivering his lines like an overgrown marionette, Bue alternates between timidity and sarcasm. Occasionally he introduces a British accent for variety. Harper's Todd is an improvement, although his lumberjack appearance detracts from the credibility of his role as a Don Juan. Many of his facial gestures grate after the hundredth repetition but he still performs convincingly as the hard-drinking stud. Genovese's constant head-tossing disturbs her acting, as does her whining intonation. Yet Roffner rescues much of the dialogue with her intuitive feel for timing, breaking easily through her stereotypical role as the professional sculptor/amateur psychiatrist...
...could be a subway coming under the grate, or gas being released, Bob Hsiung '80 said. "Or maybe it's the monsters who live in Widener," he added...
...damage occurred when one dorm decided to retaliate against a prank played on them by a rival dorm. Before the school's annual bladderball game, students climbed up to the dorm roof and dropped the vomit-smelling chemical through a grate into the dining hall during breakfast...
...ends up playing Judith as a stock comic character, a foolish, romantic female who inhabits an entirely different theatrical world than her more naturalistic male counterparts. While this interpretation certainly makes her rejection by Dudgeon seem justifiable, it also devalues it, making it too easy. As Judith's entreaties grate more and more, it seems no wonder that Dudgeon should look longingly toward the gallows...