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...audience devours Beehive like a three-foot hoagie. They may stand up and sing The Name Game ("Sarah, Sarah, bo barah, bonana fanna fo farah, fee fi mo marah . . . Sarah!"). They wallow in Lesley Gore's perky petulance ("It's my party and I'll cry if I want to") and sway to the Motown philosophizing of the Supremes ("Baby, baby, where did our love go?"). They thrill again to the eloquent plaint of the Shangri-Las ("Remember, walkin' in the sand") and the sly taunts of the Angels ("My boyfriend's back, he's gonna save my reputation...
...these, even if in jest, serve only to misinform and misrepresent. To add insult to injury, Mr. Smith engaged in blatant sexism. He wrote that "a wily person [no gender here] can use these stereotypes to his advantages," by being able to entice the students at Wellesley and Lesley. Are these advantages available only to men, or are women also subject to attack by "a squad of Lesley...
...wily person can use these stereotypes to his advantage. An astonishingly higher number of Harvard Pre-Meds appear at Wellesley than have ever passed through any Cambridge laboratory. On the other end of the spectrum, a friend and I once fended off an attack from a squad of Lesley co-eds by telling them we were Fine Arts and Urdu majors...
HOWEVER, SOME aspects of the Kirkland production really do shine. Schwartz' score includes several interesting dance numbers, and choreographer Lesley Blumenthal takes advantage of them by lifting Bob Fosse's original choreography leg, stocking, and barre...
...players in the drama were Harvard's rising freshman star Lora Rowning and Eagle sophomore Lesley Lane...