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Which part of the ballot these voters would end up punching was anybody's guess. The monkey-wrench CNN tossed in last night didn't help matters...
...Small World Order" and "Monkey Town" are student productions in toto, one cannot help but be impressed by the sweep of such an extensive collaboration. For a work to go from the workshop stages of a playwriting course to a polished and realized stage production in less than six months is no mean achievement...
...Small World Order" was a small world after all, "Monkey Town" seemed more like a big huge roller coaster of Tomorrowland. It starts out smoothly enough, with a camera crew preparing Santa (played by Moreno) for a TV show. As the film begins to roll and Santa smiles for the camera, the theater becomes a TV screen, or vice-versa. What follows is an extremely nutty, comedic and exuberantly memorable scene involving Santa and a lobotomized Rosemary Kennedy, who together are preparing to do battle with Communism in America...
...interactive and quite disturbing ride of the first act looks like the Tea Cups compared to "Monkey Town," which might rightly be compared to Space Mountain. The act opens as a television broadcast hosted by a absurdly drunk Santa Claus (Lorenzo J. Moreno '00) and an amazingly facile and supinely cynical Rosemary Kennedy (Samantha S.B. van Gerbig '98). The applause signs signal the audience to cheer for Santa's anti-communist doings and Rosemary's front-lobeless plottings. Most of the rest of the show is reserved for an LSD-induced communist "Fantasia" which actually seems like a directorial reverie...
...ethnicity are obscured. Her subjects were not solely rooted in Asian-American culture; she repeatedly emphasized complete multiculturism of all individuals: "Hear the opera... hear the passover... do you want to hear me yodel? Hear the songs we sang against Genghis Khan... Do you want to hear it?" (Tripmaster Monkey...