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Having a dachshund-terrier mix with a cute underbite waiting in your room to play with...
...play takes full advantage of every inch of space in the Loeb Ex with a complex set that allows many of the musical’s locales to be visible at once. For the audience, this means watching the two-hour long play from a set of uncomfortable bleachers; for the cast, it results in the main ensemble being onstage for almost the entire production, resulting in a sense of multidimensionality in a story that is too often reduced to the romance between Danny and Sandy. The subplots are equally compelling as the main narrative, particularly the storyline revolving around...
...punctuate scenes with snippets from radio broadcasts further broadens the scope of the show, and it seems that this decision—to emphasize the many over the few, to make the story about high school instead of a hackneyed teen romance—is what distinguishes the play from the more familiar version of “Grease.” In this, Walker has succeeded...
Isabel Q. Carey ’12 and Benjamin K. Moss ’13, who play Rizzo and Danny, respectively, are able to sing over the band in their solo numbers, but not all of the actors have the same vocal power. The ensemble numbers encounter a similar problem, with the voices of the chorus and the live band making it difficult to distinguish the lyrics. The choreography in these sequences, however, remains quite solid and helps to make up for any musical deficiencies...
Coming into the game ranked sixth in the nation on the penalty kill, Harvard’s man-down unit continued its strong play, as Kessler made two nice kick saves off shots by Minnesota’s Brittany Francis and Kelly Seeler, and the defense held the Gophers off. At the end of the first period, Minnesota had taken nine shots, compared to just five for the Crimson...