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...cast full of untrained passionate performers. The role that supporting characters like a nosy old waiter (Alex N. Chase-Levenson ’08), a provocatively funny nurse (Jamie Renee Smith ’08), and a suspicious hotel manager who possesses an ability to walk into a guest??s room at the worst moment possible (Brock W. Duke ’06) play in the performance is tremendous, and each player provides a certain charming element of their own hilarity, which puts that extra dash of spice into the play’s already piquant brew. Levenson?...
Although those bearing passes marked “Press” were allowed within the security barrier surrounding the convention center—a privilege not granted many with passes reading “Honored Guest,” “Special Guest?? or even “Delegate”—by a few minutes after 9 p.m. it became clear that none were getting inside the FleetCenter itself...
Seated in front of the endless drone of the television—right now, treating us to a very grainy version of The Drew Carey Show—one guest??s chin sinks to his chest in slumber. The volunteers and guests who haven’t gone to bed yet sit in clusters and talk in hushed tones...
...MIGHTY WIND. Anyone who sits through A Mighty Wind, writer/director Christopher Guest??s latest entry in the mockumentary subgenre, will be tempted to make comparisons to Guest??s earlier work, This Is Spinal Tap. While Tap focuses on the disaster-prone tour of a brainless metal band, Wind centers around a disaster-prone tribute concert in memory of a late, legendary folk music producer. The premise is just the sort of odd episode that Guest has mined so skillfully in the past, but this time around he maintains little of the comic consistency that...
...cast is also dotted with the standard ensemble of excessively colorful characters, played by Guest??s resident troupe of oddities. The standout is once again Fred Willard, whose offensively boorish announcer in 2000’s Best in Show amassed a fair share of critical praise. Here he plays the equally ignorant manager of Hi-Class Productions, who constantly relives the days when he supposedly hosted a game show called “Wha’ Happened? Willard never fails to produce a chuckle every time he attempts to incorporate the show’s titular catchphrase into...