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...through the most recent Common Casting booklet shows that the Harvard theater community is still far from becoming as stringent or complacent as this article may make it sound. From two productions of lesser-known Shakespeare plays--Timon of Athens and Cymbeline--to a four-person Taming of the Shrew to a multimedia Agamemnon, there's still a fair amount of unusual work going up this semester...
Look for Harvard to break back into the nation's top 5 this weekend as the squads travel to four Massachusetts regattas. The women will race for the Emily Wick Trophy at MIT and the Sloop Shrew Trophy at Radcliffe, while the coed team will try to repeat their first place Dinghy Cup finish at the Friis Trophy Team Race at Tufts and the Admiral Alymars Trophy at Massachusetts Maritime...
...good training for his starring role in the new Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate. Playing the head of an acting troupe performing The Taming of the Shrew, Mitchell is the undisputed star of both the show and the show within a show. Yet he has to cede most of the best Cole Porter numbers (Why Can't You Behave?, Too Darn Hot) to others and spends most of his time playing mock Shakespeare and bickering with his ex-wife and co-star, deliciously played by Marin Mazzie. That's one reason Mitchell never much liked the musical. "I thought...
Born in Seattle, he spent his early childhood at U.S. military bases overseas, where his father was a Navy engineer. When the family settled in San Diego, he started acting in junior high--the first scene he ever played was from (what else?) The Taming of the Shrew. His mix-and-match racial background (African American, German, Scottish, American Indian and maybe a couple of others) didn't stop him from getting roles. "I can kind of play everything because I am everything," he says. He landed a part in TV's Roots: The Next Generations when he was just...
...Coalhouse Walker in Ragtime. Yet even that role didn't win him quite the renown he deserved (he lost the Tony to Cabaret's Alan Cumming). Now he's starring in the first Broadway revival of Cole Porter's sparkling 1948 musical based on The Taming of the Shrew. He gets to reintroduce such Porter hits as So in Love, is teamed once again with his Ragtime co-star Marin Mazzie--and doesn't get killed in the end. Sounds de-lovely. WHEN Opens...