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...undergraduate producer and directors of Nymph Errant took a formidable risk when they chose to produce Cole Porter's classic 1933 musical at the Agassiz Theater...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Porter's Aged Nymph Goes Astray at Harvard | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

Music and lyrics by Cole Porter...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Porter's Aged Nymph Goes Astray at Harvard | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

Updating a show is legitimate practice, especially since Brent's plot is somewhat cliched and shallow--typical of '30s musicals. But Barton's and Schaffer's delivery of original material is so strong that it overshadows almost everything else in the show--including Porter's likeable score...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Porter's Aged Nymph Goes Astray at Harvard | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

...tale of two pairs of lovers, each divided by the chasm of class. Sailor Ralph Rackstraw and Josephine, the daughter of his ship's captain, are in love; the captain, however, has bigger plans for his daughter--he intends to marry her off to the Honorable Sir Joseph Porter, the leader of all the Queen's Navy...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: An Unsteady Ship | 12/8/1989 | See Source »

...book, The Burden of the Past, Porter University Professor Emeritus W.J. Bate '39 writes: "In this dilemma, the arts mirror the greatest single cultural problem we face, assuming that we physically survive: that is, how to use the heritage, when we know and admire so much about it, how to grow by means of it, how to acquire our own 'identities,' how to be ourselves...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: A New Generation of Harvard Poets | 12/7/1989 | See Source »

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