Word: roasting
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Gale Rosen and Ferrante read a short toast to Zeta-Jones and invited her onstage for the traditional roast, a staged presentation during which cast members mercilessly tease the honoree. Ferrante and Gale Rosen, assisted by members of the cast, joshed Zeta-Jones for her less illustrious roles—in The Adventures of the Young Indiana Jones and her position as T-Mobile’s spokeswoman. They made her speak Welsh, sing alternate lyrics to one of the songs from Chicago, re-enact a scene from Entrapment, perform silly dance moves, and swordfight with former Pudding Producer Nicholas...
Zeta-Jones threw herself into the roast with unexpected enthusiasm, correcting Gale Rosen and Ferrante’s pronunciation of her name (Zeta has a long ‘e’) and quipping when they tried to catch her off-guard...
...were completely and utterly not in control of the roast. She was in the driver’s seat, and Sam and I were just getting dragged along and were going to have to keep up,” Ferrante says...
...cast and developed; professional contractors help to create costumes and sets, to coach the singers, and to ready the orchestra. The entire HPT company stays at Harvard over intersession break for marathon 14-hour rehearsals. The Woman and Man of the Year happens almost as an afterthought, the roast written late at night in the weeks before the celebrities’ arrivals...
...members of the Pudding say that if it weren’t for the roast, the show and the Theatricals would not be what they are today. “Nobody wants to perform to an empty audience,” says...