Word: melvoin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jeff Melvoin's staging is imaginative and carefully judged. There are a few slips, such as the pointless added scenes of Gar awkwardly playing a tune on a recorder, but the careful pacing and the attention to detail is on a level above that of most theater at Harvard. So the decision to perform in the round stands out as particularly deplorable. With the audience on all four sides of the set it's impossible to avoid featuring the backs of too many heads for too long. A few fluid scenes benefit from the extra freedom of movement a lack...
...Ayrton is more than entitled to his own opinion of the actors he has worked with, but I invite him to observe a rehearsal of The Front Page, and, afterwards, I'd like to discuss the application of the word "professional" with him. Jeff Melvoin...
Where Jeff Melvoin's direction is adequate, Bob Berger's choreography is excellent. Berger, whose staging was the strong point of last spring's West Side Story at the Loeb, is very effective with the patterns he creates. Working with a small stage, he manages to made a group of ten or more dancers look amazingly uncrowded, despite Paul Eisenberg's rather confused set. As a teacher, Berger has accomplished a great deal with the men in the show, many of whom have never danced before; any lack of expertise on their part is easily compensated by their enthusiastic approach...
...absence of several valuable people greatly weakened the Crimson effort. One event in which this was evident was the 600. There, Huskie Paul Horrigan--who holds Northeastern's 600 record--set the pace, winning the event ahead of Harvard's Nick Leone. Harvard 600 runner Rick Melvoin did not compete owing to a battle with...
...could prove particularly troublesome if Melvoin, who has been having a bout with the flu, is unable to run. Contacted last night, he said he hoped to run in the hurdles and the 600, but may be forced out of the latter...