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...home base. Peterson takes pleasure in "the simple stuff of life. Just being there. Making sure that on Saturdays and Sundays we have hot cinnamon rolls for breakfast." As manager of Andrew's ice-hockey team, Peterson also invited the whole team to see In and Out, the Kevin Kline film about a gay teacher...
...begins “Reunion,” a humorous yet poignant musical chronicling those four Harvard years and the permanent crimson tint they add to one’s post-college life perspective. Dr. Philip Carl ’61, the lyricist, Dan Kline ’61, the book writer, and Stephen Price ’61, the composer, collaborated on this commerative work for their Class of 1961’s 40th Reunion last weekend. The musical was included in the Second Annual Festival of New Works for the Musical Stage, co-sponsored by New Opera...
Fast forward to the 35th reunion, where the seed for “Reunion” was planted when Carl sang a few show tunes at the festivities’ variety show. Kline remembers, “After the show, I e-mailed him saying, ‘Hey, your songs were really good...want to collaborate on writing a musical or something?’ We then batted ideas back and forth by e-mail and started putting something together...
Some of the musical’s serious moments include a satirical take on class warfare with the tune “Better Bed,” where an argument arises between Joe and Blake on who deserves the bottom bunk. Kline commented, “We confront some serious issues in this musical as well, such as the class system, private versus public schools, which was very heavy at the time. And we talk about aging–everybody gets old some time...
...certainly couldn’t have written it at your age...We didn’t want to write about Vietnam, women’s liberation, or any of the other major things–we wanted to write about friendship and how it lasts.” Kline added, “It’s about being realistic but hopeful: our classmates have survived illnesses, death of spouses and children, hard times at work, and other tragedies; but life goes...