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...stage. This first farce consists of the waiter serving a poor beggar (portrayed in an appropriately pathetic manner by Sam Samuels) as they each complain about the failures of their lives. But as the beggar hopelessly asks for a fairy godmother to save him, bells ring and a ladder slides down the window to the room...
...frizzy hair, Safron dress and all, keeps the audience in hysterics by sustaining her bizarre accent and ridiculous movements during her entire time on stage. The fairy godmother grants the beggar's wish, disappears, and reappears a few minutes later. This time she comes all the way down the ladder, on to the stage and assumes a yoga position on the table. The three actors combine precise execution of lines and movements to allow the ridiculous plot to reach its quick end. While the lines are funny and fluffy, the play subtly satirizes poverty and the dissatisfaction of people despite...
...though a climb up the corporate ladder does bring wealth and responsibility, it does not bring the absolute power this person dreams of. The days of Rockefeller, Hunt, Getty and other corporate dictators are over. Management these days has a board and stockholders to answer to, so unless all of your business associates are likewise closet liberals. You will succeed only in making a total fool of yourself, after which you will be fired and blackballed from taking any position in corporate management again...
Stimpson's first two years at Harvard found her near the top of the varsity ladder and as a junior her victors over a Yale rival at number three late in the season played a key role in the team's runner up finish to Prince ton in the national rankings...
Having dropped from the top of the ladder to number six in four years, another player might feel resentment at the influx of new sensations each year. Not so with Stimpson "I've had a lot of competition in past years, which I don't have now in our matches but on the other hand it's great to have a really good team I'm very proud of the caliber of my teammates...