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It’s just past 3:30 p.m. in the Winthrop JCR and about a dozen members of the cast of Les Phys, a physics musical that will go up in the Agassiz Theater in May, are busy rehearsing...
...Phys is the child of a marriage between the physics and music departments. Peter J. Dong ’02, a joint concentrator in Quincy House, wrote the show as his senior thesis and is the production’s music director. As a first-year, Dong knew he wanted to concentrate in both physics and music, but learned to his horror that this would require a thesis combining the two subjects. The only idea he could come up with, besides writing a paper on the physics of sound, was a musical about physics students. Though he soon learned that...
...Phys is steeped in Dong’s own experiences at Harvard, from pursuing the connections between music and physics to wrestling with procrastination. The script is also filled with real-life Harvard characters like Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi, who in the play gives lengthy and complex physics explanations in a song that ends with the lyric, “But I’m sure you won’t have any problem with that...
Dong describes the music in his 258-page script as a combination of “traditional 16th-century choral singing, energetic Broadway dance numbers, cheesy pop ballads, 19th-century waltzes, and pretty much everything in between.” Les Phys also pokes fun at the Broadway genre, with a running Les Misérables gag and references to everything from The Sound of Music to “Gangsta’s Paradise” in the song lyrics. Heller reflects this playfulness in dance sequences that parody famous Broadway scenes. “There?...
...parents want to protect their kids from obesity, they need to look beyond the home to their children's schools, where phys ed and recess are going the way of art and music. At the same time, hundreds of cash-strapped school districts around the country have turned to soft-drink bottlers, who offer as much as $100,000 a year for exclusive "pouring" contracts to place vending machines in school hallways. Principals have opened their cafeterias to such fast-food franchises as Taco Bell and Burger King. "If your task was to make the American child as unhealthy...