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...Phillip laZebnik's lyrics are at their best sublimely witty in the tradition of Noel Coward. Cole Porter and Tom Lehrer. "We'll be the perfect duet Two mouths sucking the same Sucret." "Call up Ronald Reagan and ask for my Friend Flicka." There are ten songs in the long first act, and nine in the second act, which is only 40 per cent as long. Some of these--"Power to Persuade" and "Team Song are the standouts--are clearly what makes the second act so much tighter than the first. The script is not quite funny enough--though...
Then out of the blue there appeared a new organization. The Harvard Premiere Society (HPS), which was quickly shuttled through CHUL and proclaiming undying support for the cause of original drama at Harvard, took Mintz under its wing. Since the organization had apparently coalesced around LaZebnik himself there was naturally skepticism about the existence of any long-term ends. The six-man executive board, however, has tried to establish the group's legitimacy and eradicate suspicions that it might be no more than a LaZebnik front organization. After drawing up a constitution, finding faculty sponsors, applying for a grant from...
...involved with the theater at Harvard reject--or ignore--original work all the time. Yet ask them why and you find yourself up against a virtual stonewall. But it is a wall of mismanagement and lack of perspective rather than a conscious effort to prevent original productions on principle, LaZebnik who has been through it all, claims that the problem is not really financial. "The main obstacle is the people here," he says, For even when he had a show. Teeth. that everyone agreed beforehand could not fail to make a considerable profit, he was ultimately forced to pull strings...
...should not be. Again, personal and political issues seem to be involved. But if they have been, they have also been effectively hushed up by the HDC board's closed-door policy, whereby rejected applicants for slots were left with no idea as to why their plays were rejected. LaZebnik found similar seemingly irrational standards of choice in other areas of Harvard drama. His rejection by Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid seemed to him to have been based on the belief that he was not "a Grant-In-Aid type of person," that his was not a Grant-In-Aid type...
...About Mintz. On the basis of last year's successful Teeth of Mons Herbert, I can recommend this unreservedly. Phil LaZebnik is a farceur of great range, and Mintz--if it's half as good as the people working on it have told everyone--should be excellent. Don't expect anything to shed any light on serious questions of birth, copulation or death, but this might be the intellectual's alternative to the Pudding Show anyway, since you can hardly avoid seeing at least one farce this week. Tonight, tomorrow and Saturday at the Agassiz...