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...smiles glassily, ignorant that it will be sacrificed in the pursuit of fashion. The next morning, with less than four hours to go before the noon deadline, Hays sits calmly in Quincy dining hall. Her outfit is still two-dimensional—no more than a couple of rough sketches??€”but she is unconcerned. There is not a word on how she will manage to finish the outfit, considering that she has two hours of class in the morning. It is 11 a.m. when Hays begins translating her idea into fabric. Her sewing machine buzzes noisily as Hays...
...audience experiences moments of scandalized amusement interspersed with unsentimental sympathy (the musical also treats loftier themes such as love lost and found), with a generalized envy of the actors and their vivaciousness. Their dynamic characters—which are more accurately described as character sketches??€”experience emotional highs and lows, yet retain a palpable zest for life despite an array of hinted-at trials and tribulations...
...Dave Barry meets Monty Python this is not. The amateur quality of some of the weaker sketches??€”from little Timmy getting his first boner for Chistmas to a sexually-charged nightclub act—may make a critic cringe, but the tempo of the whole show is so upbeat that the players are largely forgiven their comedic sins...
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