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Several members, however, stand out from the ranks. As Molokov, a secret agent and Anatoly’s chess second, Jay D. Musen ’09 reaches registers lower than Siberian temperatures. Vanessa Tantillo entertains as the brassy arbiter who just wants the players to finish the game. But it is Mallory who takes the spotlight. Despite a bland script, she portrays a fully realized Florence. Her singing hits the mark throughout, and her songs, “Heaven Help My Heart” and “I Know Him So Well,” are the most...
...only the heat of the play’s summer setting, but also the heat of the deep and varied feelings that boil beneath the surface of each man. Initially, eleven of the twelve jurors are sure of the boy’s guilt. Only Juror #8 (Jay D. Musen ’09) is not convinced. With his commitment to the principle of “innocent until proven guilty,” Musen successfully provides the moral force that drives the play forward. His even-tempered conviction only breaks occasionally into anger, frustration, or doubt. The steadiness...
...Angry Men,” currently runningin the Loeb Ex, is set in a tense jury room during a controversial murder case involvinga 16-year-old defendant. The Roving Reporter was pretty angry, but after pleasantconversations with several docile young actors, he regained his composure.Jay D. Musen ’09RR: Tell me about your character in“12 Angry Men.”JM: Juror #8 is the character thatHenry Fonda portrayed in the movie.He’s sort of the protagonist. At the beginningof the play, everyone is convincedthat the boy is guilty except for Juror...
...worried that we de-contextualized all these scenes,” said Jay D. Musen ’09, who played Polonius in a scene from “Hamlet” in which he disapproved of his daughter Ophelia’s budding relationship with the Danish prince...
...Musen added that audiences might not be familiar with the whole plot of plays from which the scenes came, but he said he thought the scenes chosen could stand alone...