Word: hpt
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...and’ I’ve got a conflict there,’ and it’s very crazy because they’re all auditioning at the same time,” Karlin says. At the time Karlin was also business assistant for Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) 153: “Fangs for the Memories” and business manager for HPT 154: “Snow Place Like Home...
...NAHC is thankful that they made a concerted effort to make sure the show was funny and provocative as opposed to offensive, since there is a fine line between humor and offensiveness,” Scott said in an e-mail. “Luckily the HPT didn’t cross that line, so I enjoyed the show very much...
...shouldn’t he? Elsewhere in the 12 Holyoke St. building, the members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) have meticulously prepared a shower of insults. To kick off the opening of its 157th annual musical, “Terms of Frontierment,” the Pudding has invited Robbins here to be mocked, ribbed, joshed—and, finally, to be rewarded with the cross-dressed kisses and golden Pudding Pot which are the true deserts of the oldest student company in the nation’s Man of the Year...
Beyond the raw acting skills of the cast, the HPT production is also visually stunning. Costumes could not be more aptly designed, though even the show’s script includes references that poke fun at the outrageousness of HPT costumes, which tend to be designed according to stereotypes. Indeed, at one point in the show, Gay Caballero tells his partner-in-crime, an Asian railroad maven named Ho Down, that she looks “like a cocktail waitress for the Viet Cong.” She responds equally critically, commenting that he looks “like...
...audience is never left wanting. But perhaps this weakness of the production is actually an essential part of the HPT magic. After all, it is in the very nature of an over-the-top production to go far beyond satiation. In this case, every joke is carried to its natural end at the time it is made, characters are ridiculed as much as humanly possible when they are first introduced, and the show itself continues long past the conclusion of the actual musical with a lengthy, garish kick-line number...