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...Richman '78, a spokesman for the SYL asked other campus organizations to help plan a demonstration against the conference of prominent businessmen, political analysts and government officials...
Also on tap for this weekend: Ronnie Laws, Pressure and Band X will be doing a benefit for Ronnie Laws, Pressure and Band X, 8 p.m. Friday at the Berklee Performance Center. Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, former denizens of the Cambridge Common turned underground rock stars, will be holding forth--you guessed it, Friday at 8 p.m.--at the Cohen Auditorium of Tufts University, in a benefit for the Clamshell alliance, a group committed to halting the construction of nuclear power plants. Doing anything Friday at 8, honey...
...Jessica Richman's Hypatia, a beefy beauty with a lusty voice who fairly dances about the stage is quite the "glorious young beast" Lord Summerhays takes her for. Alison Stanley, as the more independent and less romantically disposed Lina, also strikes a strong and appealing posture. The men are all competent, too--David Aston-Reese appropriately sincere and mindless as Johnny Tarleton, Patrick Young properly insufferable as pitiful little Bentley Summerhays, and Jonathan Frakes, quite the gentleman and quite not the gentleman as the moment demands, as the attractive visitor...
...good. The scene is set skillfully at the onset by a London street singer (Scott Taylor), who tells of Mac the Knife, a ruthless, but versatile killer, robber, and rapist with an ability bordering enchantment to escape the police. Mac (Christopher Reeve) is about to marry Polly Peachum (Jessica Richman), the naive, though self-confidant, daughter of Jonathan Peachum (Colgate Salsbury), the man who coordinates all the panhandling in London...
...performances of Tiina Cartmell, Colgate Salsbury, Margo Martindale, Christopher Reeve, Jessica Richman, and Cynthia Dickason are all magnificent. All manage Weill's difficult music skillfully, and successfully recreate Brecht's mix of cynicism and passion. They derive admirable assistance from the minor players, particularly from Jonathan Frakes, who plays Matt, a resentful member of Mac's gang, and from Patrick Clear, who plays Tiger Brown...