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...Even the Broadway dramas that deal with more contemporary characters and issues seem intellectualized and aloof. In 33 Variations, Jane Fonda (making her first appearance on Broadway in 46 years) plays a musicology professor suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease who tries to solve a musical mystery: why Beethoven, late in his life, became obsessed with writing variations on a minor waltz by a now forgotten contemporary composer. Writer and director Moises Kaufman (The Laramie Project) jumps back and forth in time - we see Beethoven in flashbacks - as the professor races to finish her research before the disease incapacitates...
...about converting the original book into a zombie novel? I didn't want to mess with Jane Austen's overall structure, because it's a masterpiece. Who am I to screw with one of the most brilliantly plotted novels of all time...
...surprised at how easily the book meshed with the zombie genre. It made a weird kind of sense. It was strange. It's almost as if Jane Austen was subconsciously setting this up for us. You have this sharp-tongued, fiercely independent heroine. It's not a huge leap to say she's a sharp-daggered, fiercely independent heroine. And then you have Darcy, on the other side, who's a pompous and privileged guy. And you say, all right, he's a pompous and privileged slayer. And that's how they battle it out with each other...
...people say horrible things about her in this version. Like, she should just be happy that she's invited to this dinner party, she's a spinster, she should expect nothing more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness. Kind of playing up what Jane Austen had already put there...
...game victory, the Crimson took the field looking to sweep the Rams. After falling behind 1-0 in the top of the first inning, the Crimson rallied in the bottom of the frame, scoring two runs, aided by three Rhode Island errors.In the bottom of the second inning, freshman Jane Alexander scored on sophomore Ellen Macadam’s double down the left field line to increase Harvard’s lead to 3-1. Junior Jennifer Francis collected an RBI in third, before helping home junior Melissa Schellberg, who is also a Crimson sports editor, by distracting the Rams...