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...Oren J. Izenberg, a 1991 summa cum laude graduate of Harvard and former resident of Pforzheimer, then North House, will join the department as a specialist in 20th century poetry...
...Izenberg is currently completing a dissertation at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland...
...show, written by juniors Mo Rocca and Oren Izenberg, tells the story of Belle Bottoms (Peter Ferren), whose "pad is going condo" so she has to come up with the "dinero" or she'll lose her "spread." Belle brings her '70s gang of friends back to 1875 in order to find her great-great-great-etc. grandmother Lady Ophelia Bottoms and retrieve the long-lost family fortune...
Rocca and Izenberg's writing talent is best displayed in their jokes about the Victorian era and in their excellent lyrics. The Victorian characters introduce themselves in a Charleston-esque number called "Taste Makes Chaste" ("Birds may do it and so may bees, but we're shut firmly at the knees"). And when Belle goes through a crisis as she faces the fact that she may never be born, she sings a punny, existential song with questions like, "So if I fell in a forest would you hear...
...kickline is disappointing, especially since the show itself is so much better than usual. Not only does the Can-Can bear no relation to the rest of the show (I won't even try to explain how it fits in, since Rocca and Izenberg don't), but the dancing is somewhat uninspired...