Word: shrew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combo, he blithely wraps himself in a cloak of Beethoven or Socrates to ward off Lucy's (Jackie Levy's) stubborn attacks. It's hard not to wince at the thought of what little Lucy will be like when she grows up. The strident beginnings of a first-class shrew increase her "crabbiness" ("it's undemocratic if I can't be Queen") to a screeching insufferability. Patty's (Sara Jane Aronin's) character drips from her big blue eyes. An exasperatingly dump blonde, she skips from scene to scene with her trusty jump-rope tied to knee, waist or wrist...
...other Thursday night productions are: "Coming and Going" at Adams House. "Under Milkwood" at Lowell House, "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" a Quincy House production in the Leverett House Old Library, and the "Taming of the Shrew" at Kirkland House...
Kirkland House--Bill Martin '72 thinks that interest in drama has waned at Kirkland House in recent years, but he will nevertheless direct The Taming of the Shrew there. After playing at Kirkland House December 2-4, the production is moving to the Loeb...
...Radcliffe's sailing team won the Sloop Shrew Trophy over the weekend on the Charles and demolished the three teams that finished ahead of it last weekend in the New England championships, when the Crimson failed to qualify for the Nationals...
...contrast, Cranko's Taming of the Shrew is a near perfection of sadness, sweetness and light. Particularly as danced by Haydée and Cragun (as Kate and Petruchio). Shakespeare's antic frolic, set to a score composed of snatches of Scarlatti music, subtly explores a remarkable range of domestic feeling from dominance to submission and finally to partnership. For Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, the fourth full-length storybook ballet that Stuttgart is offering U.S. audiences, Cranko discards the whole Tchaikovsky opera score in favor of a graceful montage that helps make the ballet a romantic matinee...