Word: shocker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This operetta has been a crowd-pleaser ever since its 1874 debut, when it must have been a shocker. And this production, even to judge by the number of people humming in the Symphony T stop after the show, took a great thing and made it even better...
...leave his wife and son for his new male lover--seems more like "Sally Jessie Raphael" material than the stuff musicals are made of. Fortunately, under the brilliant directing of Peter Wilson '99 and led by a dynamic cast, the HRDC production of In Trousers transforms Marvin's shocker of a story into a laugh-provoking, even heartwarming musical extravaganza...
...victory over Miller propelled Wang to the round of 16, where she knocked off her second seeded player of the tournament, a straight set shocker over sixth-seeded Dawn Buth of Florida...
...European openness and security about the human body, the Doktor pokes fun in "Porno-Person" at the American tendency toward absolute public condemnation of purveyors of porn. As the song's narrator, the "porno-person" tells of "eating porno-food/driving porno car" and ultimately, in the final incongruous shocker, being "body without soul." Deep down, says the Doktor, these porno-people must be just like all of us. Less subtle notes on American society occur in "Legalize...
...This shocker, coupled with a Harvard victory this weekend over Brown, would place the Crimson in a three-way tie for second place. A position they have not finished in for, as Coach Weiss puts it, "a very long time...