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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hall has had a light late-season in goal, fielding less balls than in the early games. But UConn should prove to be more of a challenge--the Huskies fired 23 shots at the junior netminder when the two teams last met in Storrs. In that meeting, the Crimson and the Huskies battled...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Crimson Kicking for Final Four | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

Unlike Peer(less), the production of Orphee can't be faulted for excessive length. In fact, Prascak compresses all the action--including journeys from Earth to Hell and back again and then to Heaven--into less than an hour. Scenes, events, allusions and jokes fly by altogether too fast. And Prascak too often seems less concerned with making the myth relevant than with, say, an allusion to Alice's Restaurant...

Author: By Abigail M. Mcganney, | Title: Hit Or Myth? | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

...rest of the cast can't match Zawawi's power, but special mention goes to Tom Tremoulet for creating an elegantly arrogant yet ultimately insecure Brandon. Valerie Beck is also superb as the tipsy, irreverent flapper Leila Arden. Adam Selipsky was less successful at portraying the weak, drunken Granillo, turning to over-acting at times--it is hard to imagine a college kid literally shrieking with nerves. And Charlie Kempf was guilty of a touch of woodenness, even in the role of the basically awkward and wooden Kenneth Raglan, the varsity athlete...

Author: By Will Meyerhofer, | Title: Knot Nice | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

This year's power play is different from last year's, which was more disciplined and less mobile, and emphasized passing more than skating...

Author: By Kristin Olson, | Title: The Power to Play | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

...allows mainstage producers to use its lighting facilities and its machine shop. Members of the ART staff helped the Ui group with accents, publicity and costuming. And to help pay for additional costs, the HRDC allots mainstage producers $1500, while budgets for house productions usually run around $500 or less. Not only that, "we are under no compunction to pay [the money] back," as there is with house productions, Noonan says. And Cibula added, "Most houses do not let us do big ornate productions which make no money...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: The Rise and Shine Of a Mainstage Play | 11/13/1987 | See Source »

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