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Loeb Ex--playwrite; H/R Jazz Band--singer; PBH-FUP; Radcliffe Outreach; Adams' Cafe Mardi Jazz Coffeehouse--Manager...
Adams also offers some of the best house-organized social events at Harvard. Aside from the traditional Winter Formal and Spring Waltz, Adams has yearly Halloween and Mardi Gras parties, complete with dancing which would make most people blush--until they learn how to do it. And every Tuesday the house committee sponsers Cafe Mardi, which offers, among other treats, sexpresso...
...minute musical revue that will run for five weeks starting Feb. 7. It boasts snappy show tunes, precision tap lines, and leggy ladies in dazzling costumes dripping with sequins and feathers. All this is sandwiched between an opening carnival act that nightly crowns the king and queen of Mardi Gras, and a red, white and blue finale guaranteed to strain the tear ducts of even the most hard-nosed patriots. Though the cast consists entirely of active-duty and retired military personnel and dependents, it turns in a performance that rivals anything you'll see on the stages...
Today Cione is using old costumes from his nightclub days -- with some essential parts added -- to grace the bodies of the officers' wives and other Mardi Gras cast members. The women, however, have no qualms about Cione's lurid past. Producer Jeanne Dorsey, wife of the commander of the Third Fleet, Admiral James F. Dorsey, calls Cione a miracle man for volunteering so much of his time, effort and talent to mold a military community into a theatrical troupe. For his part, Cione enjoys the chance to work with these gung-ho amateurs. "It's their positive attitude," he says...
Whether or not that wish comes true, Bates and her fellow performers take pride in the fact that their show is expected to net more than $25,000 for both local and military charities, including the Red Cross and Navy Relief Society. Thus the cast and crew of Mardi Gras Follies '91 seem to be tapping ! out a new twist on an old adage: "They also serve who only sing and dance...