Word: laura
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From a technical standpoint, Laws is uneven. While everyone is enthusiastic (the orchestra frequently overly so), Ivan Orton as Bobby, Marcie Goldstein as Laura Vue, his Law Review president girlfriend, and Rich Friedman as Professor Killer stand out as the real actors in the group. Professor Herwitz does a fine job playing himself as the Hollywood Squares emcee, as does America Lou Fackler in a sequence about the Mr. Junior Associate Pageant...
...obscure references to Law School trivia, the script is pretty funny even without the Pavlovich jokes. The best musical numbers are "Laura, Little Laura," in which Bobby describes the sad death of Laura Vue, who was eaten by a shark in the Charles (to a background chorus of wailing greasers), and "Never Tell a Lie," in which Bobby and the company act out the punishment for perjurers...
...book's parallels between ancient Biblical times and the present day were a bit strained," Laura E. Holmes '78 said...
...expressive end, unlike the other three who substitute the ambience of drama for its substance in "Yin and Yang," "Chidori" and "Goat Dance." Danced to throaty cabaret songs composed by Zygmunta Koniecznego, Monreal's duet has less specific associations than the other drama and succeeds in its allusiveness. Laura Young and Woytek Louski sweep through a succession of breath-arresting lifts, revealing the tenderness and trust implicit in "duet...
...dose of roman a clef in them) are much more convincing as he makes it clear that he knew them all personally. The only area of restraint caused by his close relationship is Waugh's marriage, a subject on which he sheds almost no light, aside from denying that Laura Waugh was a "doormat...