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...Robbins, who has dramatized the injustices of the American legal system on film, was confined to an on-stage prison of puns last night as members of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals (HPT) roasted their newest Man of the Year...
...about 20 kitschy minutes, HPT members mercilessly mocked the lauded actor, writer, and director. Robbins fired back with good-humored quips of his own before being rewarded with the venerable student group’s traditional article of shiny golden crockery...
While the Woman of the Year ceremony is still a ribald event, the HPT treats the award with reverence. For them, the Man and Woman of the Year visits are “icing on the cake”—a phrase repeated by several current Pudding members—a chance to appreciate and connect with a consummate professional, and a chance to have that professional appreciate their production. Ferrante describes the Woman of the Year ceremony as the event that “makes the company a family...
Some of the celebrities even keep in contact with the Pudding after the event. Jamie Lee Curtis, who won the Woman of the Year in 2000, for instance, took a Polaroid picture of herself wearing Hasty Pudding underwear and sent the photograph back to the HPT; the picture now sits in the business office...
...production is enormous; the HPT takes its farce extremely seriously. Work begins in March, when the executive board of the HPT helps to select the authors, who work on the story and script during the spring and summer. In the fall, the show is cast and developed; professional contractors help to create costumes and sets, to coach the singers, and to ready the orchestra. The entire HPT company stays at Harvard over intersession break for marathon 14-hour rehearsals. The Woman and Man of the Year happens almost as an afterthought, the roast written late at night in the weeks...