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...February, Scott Meadow, Harvard's bodybuilding phenomenon, worked out in obscurity for four-and-a-half hours a day in a converted squash court in Dunster House. His only aim was to "chisel out an art form" for the coming "Mr. Collegiate USA" contest in April...
...Meadow was the subject of a half page articlein The Boston Globe in the middle of March which was followed by coverage in suburban papers. Two weeks later, Meadow won the "Mr. Northern States" title in Dedham as a warm-up to the "Mr. Collegiate" contest. The next week, he traveled to Ohio where he faced 20 opponents for the "Mr. Collegiate" trophy. The competition was stiff as all contestants were required to have won an AAU district level contest in order to enter...
...Meadow was runner-up and could be declared the winner if the bodybuilder who won is disqualified. "There is a big controversy going on now and I still might win because the school for refrigerator repairmen, which the winner attends, isn't accredited," Meadow said...
Since his big effort in the Collegiate contest, Meadow slacked off to a 40-minute-per-day workout but his fame has continued to surge...
...quite as pivotal or as interesting as in some other Gilbert and Sullivan operettas--there's nothing here to compare, for example, with the posturings of the Lord Chancellor in Iolanthe or Katisha's ravings in The Mikado--but they still offer marvelous opportunities for comic mugging. Scott Meadow turns in a sharply defined performance as Wilfred Shadbolt, the "assistant tormentor" who eventually wins Phoebe's hand (but not her heart). A typical Gilbert and Sullivan "light heavy," Meadow's Wilfred is too ridiculously self-important and gullible to be really threatening. Carol Flynn also has a few funny moments...