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...really liked to grab on to.” The set attempts to add to the production’s more three-dimensional feel. Constructed to reflect Todd’s entrapment, it features a somber prison, with bars surrounding the characters on all sides, and a foul pit, with the set looming menacingly above on both sides. “We’re working with this idea that Sweeney and his fellow London workers are trapped in this cage of industry and they’re being put down,” set designer Grace C. Laubacher...
Come June, 24-year-old Japanese graduate student Yusuke Sakamoto will face an unusual final exam. While most of his classmates at Tokai University near Tokyo will be sweating out answers in a classroom, Sakamoto will be in pit lane at France's legendary Le Mans race track, hoping his 550-horsepower school project survives one of the world's great endurance races...
...that the car, dubbed the TOP03 (Tokai Original Prototype 03), is completed, Hayashi's team is ready to begin testing, as well as learning how to manage a racing campaign in time for Le Mans. While Hayashi plans to hire some professional pit crewmen at the circuit, during the competition students will handle most of the track communication, data analysis and race coordination, with Hayashi serving as coach. They'll have professional help behind the wheel: Three experienced drivers, led by Toshio Suzuki, winner of the 1992 Daytona 24-hour race, have signed...
...Quincy’s vision of what wolves would do, an animated wolf/bear duo of intergalactic adventurers explore a planet inhabited by pouty-mouthed, bikini-clad creaturelings who love a good party. After a night of orgiastic cartoon excess, the plot takes a sharp turn into “Pit and the Pendulum” doom and gloom, as wolf and bear narrowly escape their female captors-turned-ritualistically-sacrificing-robots. Not quite as idiosyncratic as Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo, but bizarre enough, considering that Quincy’s working without Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The cartoon storyline...
...really awesome,” she says. “I made kind of arbitrary decisions about where to go to school, and that was actually one of the factors.” Bray also plays the percussion in the Harvard Pops Orchestra and the Gilbert and Sullivan pit. However, her experience with THUD allows her to explore and challenge herself in ways that playing percussion in a traditional orchestra cannot. She enjoys taking on the challenging pieces that THUD performs, utilizing all percussion parts. Bray believes that, for percussionists who participated in innovative ensembles similar to THUD...