Word: kickings
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...KICK FROM CAMPAIGN...
Preface to Abstract Thoughts P>The 151st installment of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, I Get No Kick from Campaign, is, ironically enough, a kick. Not only that, it's all about kicking: kicking back and enjoying, cancan kicking and kickboxing. It is an entertaining romp through time (a choice sample including the signing of the Constitution and a presidential race of the near future). More spectacular than last year's production, but not as dazzling as the next's, the show follows the hearty base tradition of vaudeville...
...subplot, a drag show is nothing. With one, it could be a dragnet show. International espionage, despite its tendency to climax in showdowns on top of skyscrapers, is eerily seductive--think Tom Cruise flailing like an insect in Mission Impossible, Harrison Ford in Patriot Games, Elizabeth Berkeley in Showgirls. Kick from showcases its espionage plot as a xenophobic triangle, with private eyes Katya Redhanded (Young Lee '99) and Newt Erd on the tail of Eiffel Over (Christian Roulleau '01), a breadbasket wearing, scent-spilling, card-carrying member of the HPT (Hairy Patriarchal Thespians). For the resident woman...
...Kick From Campaign", the show now playing at the Hasty Pudding Theater, is no exception to the HPT formula: It's raunchy, at times unnecessarily and excessively so, the puns are merciless (and sometimes God-awful), and the men do not look as pretty in tights and brassieres as women would in their place...
...enjoy the show, you do better to know this beforehand. But if in the last few years you've been wondering whether or not HPT is for you, this is a good year to find out because where other shows have fallen short, in my opinion, "I Get No Kick from Campaign" delivers...