Word: harking
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...Hark, Hark...
LAST YEAR, there were no Spiro Pavlovich jokes in the Law School review, which was odd, because just about every other Law School jokes that could be made came up in the course of the show. This year, there are no such omissions. Holmes is Where the Hark Is relies heavily on inside one-liners; even jokes that are comprehensible to outsiders (as when a Johnny Carson figure tells a class, "How angry was the crowd? As angry as the Harvard Law faculty when Jimmy Carter announced his cabinet") rely on some knowledge of the school. How inside...
Nevertheless, Holmes is Where the Hark Is--a reference, by the way, to the Law School cafeteria, Harkness Commons--is not a dramatic disaster. Do It Yourself, a now-famous Lowell House production, relied no more heavily on College jokes than Holmes relies on the Law School, and was only funnier because its humor was directly connected to undergraduates' lives. Howard Katz, Robert Noto and Ivan Orton have come up with a book that pokes fun at every aspect of Law School life, and one leaves with a sense not of frustration at having missed the point, but of having...
...decision to see Holmes is Where the Hark Is should probably be based more on an anthropological interest than on a search for a musical. Because unless you're planning to take someone along to explain why the rest of the audience is rolling in the aisles at a joke about torts, Holmes is Where the Hark Is is an insiders' guide to the Law School--a very funny guide indeed, but unfortunately, it may be just a little more inside than most outsiders can take...
...Harvard tradition and that isn't just a lower class Pudding show? The Law School show, of course. With a plot that promises to be as thoroughly indescribable as everything we've come to expect from over there, it's hard to say anything about Holmes is Where the Hark Is, except that even if you don't get two-thirds of the jokes you probably should still go. The other third may be worth it. Performances are tonight through Sunday at 8 p.m. and March 23-29 at the Law School's Pound Building. Admission is $2.50 Wednesday, Thursday...