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...greatest of Broadway musicals was exuberantly revived there as a color- drenched, clownish yet passionate paean to a big-city zest and vitality that no longer exist, and probably never did. Faith Prince's Miss Adelaide was the year's musical highlight...
...gender-blind. Mother Stahlbaum is played with zest by a man (Peter Wing Healey), who doubles as a portly Dewdrop in The Waltz of the Flowers. The corps de ballet comprises both males and females, some on pointe, some not. The Snowflake Waltz, without doubt the show's highlight, is performed by this motley assemblage of 22 in an ingenious parody of classical choreography. But instead of the snow drifting down from the rafters, the dancers carry it onstage by the fistful, and each time they jump, they fling it into the air. Silly? Definitely. But like all the best...
Probably Tharp will refine the evening during the tour. Maybe another oldie or two would not hurt. To see Baryshnikov's lyrical, muscular performance in One More for the Road (1983), a last-act highlight, is to watch a marvelous synthesis of classical and modern dance -- what their creative partnership is all about...
Then its back to Cambridge for practice, two days off for Christmas and then off to California for the winter break's highlight: the Cable Car Classic in Santa Clara on December 29-30. Harvard plays Santa Clara in the opening round. Alabama and Rhode Island will meet in the other bracket...
...tenacious defense (save for the one mental lapse at the end) was also a highlight for the Crimson. Leitzes and junior Francie Walton turned in sparkling performances, breaking up several Patriot breaks...