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...With only four players, some of the more upbeat songs become hysterical feasts of scandalous lyrics and perfectly-timed traditional (and not-so-traditional) Broadway dancing. Flanked by melancholy pieces about lost love, the spicier songs add amazing comic relief: the saucy maids and an aggressive adolescent Marvin who sing about making breakfast, the horny high-school girls tempting Marvin at the bus stop and the fabulously raucous number dedicated to Marvin's first gay sexual experience all leave the audience roaring with laughter. Few musicals could line up an estranged wife trying to deal with her heartache followed...
...most light-hearted moment of the evening was Foley's interpretation of his favorite Sondheim song, "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story, a jingle definitely written for someone of the fairer sex to sing. The last song, "Side by Side by Side," was a smile-tugging tribute to the hard-working, oftignored musician in a production, in this case represented by Alex E. Freedman...
...mention serving as president of the Black Students Association and running track). Perhaps it was the semester he spent in Ghana putting his own musical together. Or perhaps his big first step will be his upcoming Afro-American Studies senior thesis, a musical entitled "Songs We Can't Sing," that he is putting on in January...
...remarks on Saturday: "I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/Who says my hand a needle better fits." The carping tongues were blissfully silent this weekend, and Bradstreet now ushers us into the Yard, a constant reminder of the achievements past and still to come. We can all sing "Fair Harvard" with a little more pride the next time around...
...that evening in Oklahoma, amid the lilting melody of a seven-piece band, that commandment at first brims with a kind of inclusiveness as whites, African Americans, Asians, Hispanics as well as one Croatian immigrant clap their hands, rocking with the zealotry of the converted as they all sing Lord, Purify My Heart. On the small scale of Lawton's First Assembly of God church, the inspiration is palpable, touching, poignant. But in the grander scheme, the Bible verse raises other questions: Who on earth will command? And who must obey...