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...BERNIE KRIEGER has been singing with the Harvard Glee Club since before any of the group's current members were born. A veteran of roughly a quarter century of Harvard choral music, Krieger--by profession an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Boston University Hospital--has become something of a legend among several generations of campus singers...
...perhaps "legend" is a misleading word. Bernie Krieger is by no means the William Tell of the Cambridge choral set; his name inspires neither awe nor tremendous admiration. And, unlike Robin Hood, he will probably not be the subject of many great tales of heroism and warm-hearted concern. Indeed, if Bernie Krieger is a legend, he is a legend after the fashion of Pinnochio: all the stories about him are tales of misadventure, tinged ever so slightly with a reluctant love...
WEDDING BAND'S fiery subject matter and Childress' unrestrained style force co-directors Nancy Krieger and Linda Thurston to walk a thin line between highly-charged, emotional drama and preachy social commentary. They get support for this precarious balancing act from Luiza Gonsalves, whose performance as Julia would, by itself, make this Black C.A.S.T.-Black Star Theatre production worth seeing. The subtle expressiveness of her Chaplinesque face and the easy grace of her gestures and movements lend her performance a naturalness that never fades though she remains on stage nearly every minute of the play. In Krieger and Thurston...
Wedding Band is subtitled A Love/Hate Story in Black and White. Judging from the play's severe contrasts, one assumes that playwright Childress sees a world of rigid irreconcilable extremes. This production of Weeding Band succeeds best, however, when Krieger, Thurston and company avoid extremes, exploring life's gray region of confusion and ambivalence...
...Nancy J. Krieger '80, founder of the Women's Clearinghouse, is "surprised and also not surprised" by the squad's appearance. She suspects the cheerleaders are reacting against the expanding presence of feminism at Harvard. Women's issues are no longer the sole concern of a "feminist clique," she believes and some people, threatened by more widespread acceptance of feminism, "are in retreat." She adds, "Having women go back to cheerleading will not bring back the good old days...