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...Authority (MBTA) descriptions of the extension of the Red Line are artfully simple: "...five years of blasting, drilling, scooping and building will become another ten minutes of commuting." That will be in the spring of 1984, when the first Red Line cars venture beyond the Harvard Square station to Porter and Davis squares and to the Alewife area, bringing subterranean transit to the edge of the city...
...Porter Square merchants say the extension will probably improve their business. "The Red Line has created a focus on the area that didn't exist before," says Simon E. Shapiro, chairman of Mercants on the Line, a businessman's association formed through the MBTA two years ago. The increased public transportation to the square will ease the ongoing expansion of North Cambridge, Shapiro says, adding, "This market is really an expansion of Harvard Square and the congestion there." In fact, Tags True Value Hardware, Shapiro's workplace, is eventually planning to expand to three times its present size, he adds...
...After Hours simply as a collection of 19 dance numbers from Broadway musicals of the twenties and thirties. He has made outstanding choices, including hits from the alltime favorite musicals like Kiss Me, Kate and Babes in Arms. McIntosh necessarily draws heavily on the most famous works of Porter, Gershwin and Rodgers, since college students of the eighties are unfamiliar with many great tunes that haven't remained a part of popular culture. The only songs that don't pick up are the slower, less familiar ballads like Porter's "What is This Thing Called Love?" from Wake...
Company numbers come off the strongest. The cast of five dance and sing best when all together. Porter's "Too Darn Hot" is the most successful number in the show. The choreography is smooth, the performance fairly polished. The women's trio in "I Can Cook, Too" evoked loud laughter, as did the men's equally amusing rendition of the song in a modern parody of the 1944 Bernstein classic. After Hours could use more of this kind of innovation...
...Kevin L. Porter '82, another Leverett resident, said yesterday, "The House really needs the money for important social functions, and though the method is awkward, I'll gladly support them...