Word: hrdc
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past nine years, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) has organized Common Casting in an attempt to draw a greater number of actors for all the shows...
...pretty tiring, it can get pretty boring and it can get pretty frustrating," Jordanna M. Brodsky '98, the publicity coordinator for the HRDC. "We try to keep things as entertaining as possible...
This semester, Common Casting is even more difficult to organize, because HRDC has included more plays than usual, and has added the Mainly Jazz Dance Company to its list of auditioning groups...
...seem a natural subject for a ballet, and a line like "got a rocket in your pocket" didn't automatically provoke knowing winks from the audience. To present that musical now, without turning it into pure kitsch, requires a daunting level of sincerity and enthusiasm. To do it with HRDC's limited resources, and to do it well, would be something like a triumph...
Triumphant is the best word to describe the atmosphere at Agassiz Theater last Friday night. The new HRDC production of "West Side Story" (directed by Scott Brown, produced by Melissa Swift) takes on the full challenge of the musical--the singing, dancing, scatting, even the blindingly bright costumes--and pulls it off with style. The make-or-break moment comes right at the beginning, when the Jets, snapping in rhythm and looking cool, break into that first pirouette. Not only is it surprisingly graceful, but the six buddy-boys do it with such infectious high spirits that the audience...