Word: kirklander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...capture the Straus Cup, and though Monteleone says "it's not as exciting a cup as we thought it was," the senior organizer adds. "We intend to hold onto it as long as we can" Only two of the river Houses have never won a Cup Quincy and Adams. Kirkland's 17 Straus Cup victories is more than double those of runners-up Eliot and Winthrop...
...EXTRAVAGANZA now playing at Kirkland House is blessed with a lead actor who looks uncannily, definitively Messianic. From the moment Adam Isaacs strolls onstage in his white tunic, smiling and nodding at some 25 adoring followers, any doubts as to the feasibility of staging a gospel-inspired rock opera at a predominantly blow-dried university become moot. The illusion of Deeper Meaning holds. And in a show which draws about a third of its emotional impact from that illusion and another third from the power of an extraordinarily rich score, such a visual bonus is no small gain...
Those two thirds of success success make this very large and lavish Jesus Christ Superstar an excellent evening's entertainment, despite production weaknesses glaring enough to sink most theatrical endeavors. Staged in the massive Kirkland House JCR. Superstar involves close to 30 actors in a perpetual whirlwind of motion, as well as an extremely competent 14-person orchestra thumping away madly in the background. The script contains not a single line of spoken dialogue, unless you count Pontius Pilate yelling. "Twenty-two! Twenty-three! Twenty-four!" while Roman guards put Jesus to the lash. The rest is music numbers...
...Winthrop House squad had sparked some excitement even in the void. It pinned a 14-8 defeat on Kirkland, gaining its first intramural football championship and finishing the season...
...Winthrop defense, which allowed no first downs in the first half, recovered a fumble just one minute following Bechtold's score. Slack immediately found Corman McLeod 34 yards downfield, to put the ball at the K-Land I. But Kirkland stiffened, and after four attempts, Winthrop went back on defense...