Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perplexing fact that the people at the Loeb can't really say why original student work is so rarely performed on the Mainstage. It isn't that they don't want to tell you; they just don't know. Everyone is well aware that there hasn't been an original show--a new play written by a student--there since the late 60s--even though the bi-annual Phyllis Anderson prize for the best original undergraduate drama is a choice of either $500 towards publication or the play being performed on the Mainstage--but no one can explain it. Because...
Then there was the extensive financial haggling. Eventually, the budget was set at $500, one fifth of which went immediately to orchestration. (The approximate budget set for Loeb mainstage shows this year, considerably lower than that of past years, is $2000. The last Grant-In-Aid production in Agassiz Theater, Fiorello!, was budgeted at about $5500.) Again against all odds, Teeth sold out five of six performances and grossed $1100, making more than 100 per cent net profit...
...society had a reputation for supporting original musicals, having produced Suffragette in 1973 (now playing successfully in New York) and others before that. But after more than a months deliberation, the Advisory Board of Grant-In-Aid rejected the show, claiming that force to "unprofessional." Discouraged by the Loeb Mainstage's recent record or non-record of original shows and therefore expecting to similar rejection, LaZebnik turned next to the Lowell House Music Society which first agreed to do the show and then backed out of the agreement two weeks later...
...produce it. Acquaintances, he will tell you, do everything here. In-groupness and cliques are inevitable in the non-professional atmosphere of college theater, where one is constantly dealing with acquaintances. Personalities clash; objectivity is abandoned. Outsiders to certain groups are either distrusted or simply unwanted. At the Loeb, where mainstage productions almost always operate in the red, to say that an original show was rejected on the grounds that it was simply a financial risk is a feeble excuse...
...National Endowment for the Humanities announced today that it has chosen Paul A. Freund, Loeb University Professor, as Jefferson Lecturer for the year...