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...directly involved, and, apparently, a reasonable amount of fun for the annual audience of 14,000 as well. And someday, perhaps, somebody Big and Bored will decide that enough has been enough, and will let someone write something real and really funny, and a bit less unwieldy--HPT 230, perhaps. I'll come back then, no matter where I am, and review it; but you still won't have to listen to a word I say, since the review will be done completely with mirrors...
...curious things about HPT 128 is that plot seems to suffer from the toned-down atmosphere, almost as if the sexism is an integral part of the show, and men just running around in drag and telling silly jokes isn't enough. I've never been to a Pudding show before so I can't tell, but I hear plot has usually been weak; this year it's about as thin as a slide-specimen. Innocent Kitty Kaboodle comes to New York during the Depression with hopes of instant stardom, or at least she says she's marked...
...dancing throughout Tots is actually pretty impressive, considering that part of the fun of HPT shows is supposed to be that everybody trips over clodhopper-style numbers. There's still too much bumbling, but Greg Minahan as Kitty shows that fast feet can add to the show. He dances up a good watch-me-and-then-you-can-do-it number with Mark Szpak (Henna), and together with Buddy (Bruce Cranston) they dance a nice soft shoe in a satirical love song, called "Easy to Please." Even the bumbling has been made into more interesting dance with Judith Haskell...
...quite know what to say," but the producers, practiced in this sort of thing, can say it all. Having been expertly guided through his performance, the star of Baretta stumbles offstage. The composer and director are exhibited next; Judy Haskell '51, as the first woman to direct an HPT show is something new, and slightly progressive. Very much "the thing", and treated as such. She is given a hand by the producers and the audience and "welcomed to Harvard." Certainly Haskell had never been to this Harvard when she was an undergraduate. A turn and she descends the ramp...