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Fitzgerald wrote these words about the Manhattan of 1922, but they could just as well apply to The Game tomorrow. As we wrap ourselves in striped scarves and wool coats, trudge home through leaf-coated sidewalks, and watch the mercury dance around the mid-twenties, there’s a simmering sense of anticipation in the air that only a Crimson win can happily resolve...
...ambitious enterprise. Before the show began, the audience was treated to a rendition of John Williams’s distinctive theme song that sounded like it was coming from a first-generation Game Boy. The only scenery consisted of a few fake plants and some cardboard painted with leaf prints. But this minimalism belied Wham City’s enthusiasm: the play brilliantly balanced reverence and irreverence for its source material.The play opened with Dennis Nedry (Benjamin O’Brien), doubled over, pant legs stuffed with padding, lumbering across the stage and gnawing on what seemed...
...climbs in through the pressroom window. He claims that he is innocent and was framed as part of a crooked deal between the city’s sheriff and mayor, who is up for reelection in four days. Under the insistence of his calculating editor, Walter Burns (James M. Leaf ’10), who desperately wants to keep his star reporter, Hildy hides Williams and faces the challenge of extracting him from the newsroom under the noses of corrupt cops and government officials in order to get the exclusive story.While the battle between the media and politicians takes center...
...freshman representative Guanyi “Tony” Huang ’12, got the judges talking the most. Even the difficult Munoz said he was won over, though Emily Huang, preceptor in Chinese, could not help but laugh (and praise) the improvisation of using a lettuce leaf as decoration...
...remembering: our very first day of school. He asks the audience to remember our parents leading us by the hand, to imagine their parents behind them and their parents behind them, and so on. He asks us to trace our entire lineage through the veins of a fallen tree leaf, which was given out before the play commenced. The point of this simple exercise of the mind, and of imagination, is to convey how every audience member watching “Mnemonic” comes from a common ancestor. Remembering such a bizarre scenario will definitely not require any sort...