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...suffer from a tight Christmas, because vanity is generally inelastic. In fact, although Santa may shoulder lighter packs this year, area hairstylists still assume they will arrive looking neat. "I hear all the sob stories of people without any money," Hair Care of Dunster Street's Nancy L. Sellon said yesterday. "But people who will do anything to save money get their hair cut because it makes them feel better," she added...
What coiffe will Santa be sporting? "Around here most people want the free and natural look," Sellon said...
...other men, Andy Sellon and Ben Schatz., have less ample vocal talents, but their songs are less demanding; too. If Sellon is a touch precious and self-conscious in "Fanette," a lengthy contemplation on alost love, he provides just the right sneer of disgust for the satire of the solider's lot in "Next...
Some of the chintziness achieves its intended comic proportions. The evil priestess ties our heroes to stakes, threatening them with sacrifice to vicious alligators. But small, adorably wiggly plastic things are tossed out on stage, and for once Sellon doesn't ruin it for himself and us--the actors respond as though these are, indeed, vicious creatures. If this attitude had prevailed, Thebes Like Us might have been the enjoyably silly evening...
Thebes Like Us. Misdirected and acted with varying amounts of ease, this Leverett House show almost makes it. Andy Sellon's words and Andrew Schulman's music intermittently entertain, but the production borders on the amateurish rather than the amateur. This show harbors yet another tap number, yet another '50s song, and puns galore. Dr. Livingstone I. Presume and his nubile but crackers assistant, Rosetta Stone (Jon Isham and Dede Schmeiser), set out to solve the energy crisis, but land in ancient Thebes. The satire's often undirected, and Brigadoon did the end better. Still, audience response has been good...