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When the Boston Symphony Chamber Players decided a couple years ago to stop giving a concer series in Sanders, it looked like Harvard was going to be left in the lurch forever without a "campus" chamber series like that had at Yale. With support, Ariel should keep us flying high, even higher than they fly in New Haven...
WHERE THE MUSICAL DIVERGES from Shakespeare, the difference seems less like a change than a clever exploitation of submerged meaning in the original. In the adapted version, Proteus doesn't merely leave Julia's affection in the lurch, he leaves her pregnant, too. A vehement argument sung in four-part disharmony ensues on the desirability and proper emotional upbringing of illegitimate children. While Shakespeare doesn't wrangle over issues as pragmatic as pregnancy in this play, you wonder if he didn't have more on his mind than Julia's male disguise when he put these words in her mouth...
...when things began to change, about ten years ago, straight journalists found it increasingly hard to catch flies, and into the lurch came something called the New Journalism. At its best, New Journalism had it all over straight reporting because it was an epiphenomenon itself, sort of unconventional, just like the people and stories it covered, and the best of its practitioners was Tom Wolfe. When Wolfe wrote about stock car racers and the good ole boys around them, or Las Vegas with its plasticine madness, or Phil Spector, his was the most accurate stuff around, because...
...equated with good principles and the allocation of food--in this case, muffins and cucumber sandwiches--becomes a major social issue. It is therefore not totally inappropriate that in this production Merriman, the manservant, should get the biggest laughs of the night by doing a pretty fair imitation of Lurch from The Addams Family. But it certainly doesn't speak well for the rest of the Leverett House cast, who have at their disposal among the funniest lines, scenes and characters ever sandwiched into three short acts...
CONSPIRACY runs rampant. There is grumbling in the kitchen, muttering on the back porch, gibbering in the parlor. Back-stage phone-calls jerk marionettes out of their dangling sleep and send them prancing into places of power. Zombies lurch forward. Who is Nancy Reagan anyway? And what dark beast slouches toward Bethlehem to be born...