Word: pantheonic
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...SARAH FERGUSON 195 pages. Pantheon...
...screen in years." Faye, whose only sizable screen detonation occurred in 1967 when she starred in Bonnie and Clyde, enjoyed the Cambridge ceremonies: a Faye Dunaway look-alike contest, won by a platinum-wigged male student, and a couple of numbers from this year's revue, Keep Your Pantheon. Later she gushed: "These Harvard guys are wonderful, and they play it straight...
Most people don't have quite this perspective on the thing, which brings up the interesting question of why they go to Pudding Shows. It seems pitiful to spend money to see a show like HPT 126 Keep Your Pantheon, and this year's show, as HPT productions go, is good. But it's good within the tradition, and there is more to that tradition than just dressing up in drag--it also means wooden acting, amiable incompetence in the kicklines, slick p.r. (all that Man-of-the-Year stuff), and a certain alcoholic preppiness. There is also a tradition...
...accepting for the moment that something has lured you into Keep Your Pantheon, a semi-valid question remains of what you will see. No one, at least, is under any obligation to take the thing seriously, so the first thing to do is thank God that this is not last year, and that a plot, whatever its faults, exists this year, which is more than could be said for last year's Bewitched Bayou. There is not now and never has been any danger of any Pudding script being printed in an anthology of great plays or musicals...
Keep Your Pantheon is the heartwarming tale of a peasant village in Greece. The villagers band together to protect their time-hallowed gods from the murderous touch of the international communist conspiracy. Opens tonight at the club...