Word: scripting
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...that he has sold out. He has entered into a partnership with Huckabees, a chain of K-Mart-like stores, to throw some muscle behind his coalition to save a local wetland. Russell’s sly appropriation of American corporate-speak provide the best moments in the Huckabees script: therapy would be unbecoming for a corporate executive, so Brad rationalizes his sessions with “existential therapists” by insisting they are “pro-active and action-oriented.” While all of the characters in Huckabees seem primed to arc from ironic distance...
...wish I had not. The movie is lacking something. It definitely was not Jon Voight, the consummate professional, who came through with a performance that rivals the one he turned in for The Karate Dog as his personal best in 2004. Maybe what it lacked was a good script, decent plot, and solid acting. Step it up, Jerry...
Occasionally, this unique process led to significant script alterations, including a new character. “The role of head genie wasn’t in the script as of common casting,” Scheuer says, “but K’idar [Miller ’08] had such a great audition that we brought it back into the show...
While musicals are commonly performed around campus, rarely are they as fully homegrown. While Lawler had the idea to write a musical in fall 2003, the script was put on the back-burner when Lawler took a year off to train for the Olympic Trials as a swimmer. “I came back with about 60 pages of script and sent out an email on Cabot Open saying that I was looking for a composer.” That email turned up the composer Scheuer, already a veteran of three similar endeavors...
Written during the Restoration period, when witty and risqué was the fashion, the play was comparable to late-night cable programming in terms of sexual innuendo and scandalous content. Still, slight adjustments to the script overcome any lingering barriers of temporal culture. For example, company veteran Remo Airaldi delivers a new thoughtful and amusing prologue in rhyme. Furthermore the actors forgo the standard drone, which so often hold back productions of older material, in favor of a soothing Virginia drawl—which they generally pull...