Word: skit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...discussion last night included a skit entitled "White Rose: Treason With Honor" by a group of eighth-graders at Kennedy Junior High School in Somerville who took first place in a national history contest...
...fuses vivid color and classical music into a charming treat for both eye and ear. Against a pure white background, four female and three male dancers (each clad in a different shade of the rainbow) and a chorus in bright red recall the delightful simplicity of a Sesame Street skit. Daniel Pelzig's choreography is a welcome breath of fresh air. The piece utilizes conventional styles of dancing but while tosses in innovative ideas every so often. Like exotic birds on parade, the dancers create a dramatic feast for the eyes: the powerful solos, romantic couples, graceful trios and flawless...
...state of general knowledge concerning the Supreme Court these days reminds me of a Jay Leno skit in which the talk-show host goes out onto the street to test people's familiarity with Biblical trivia. A standard question in his repertoire: which of the following is not a Biblical book--Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus or DeGeneres? Needless to mention, Leno's hapless guinea pig does not "choose wisely." I sometimes wonder whether Leno would not find equal ignorance were he to ask: who of the following is not a Supreme Court justice--Rehnquist, Ginsburg, Scalia or Sorvino...
...humor in the second skit, "Variations on the Death of Trotsky," is much more blatant. Like "Sure Thing," "Trotsky" offers numerous interpretations of the same scene: in this case, the moments before Trotsky's death. Throughout the skit, Trotsky (John Driscoll '99) has a mountain climber's ax sticking out of his skull, although he doesn't realize until Mrs. Trotsky (Elena Schneider '99) points it out. Although "Variations on the Death of Trotsky" isn't as witty or keenly observant as "Sure Thing," it's hard to resist lines like "maybe he was just hot-to-Trotsky." Driscoll...
Steering the night's entertainment into the realm of parody, "Speed-the-Play" skewers the theater of David Mamet. This skit contains miniature versions of four Mamet plays: "American Buffalo," "Speed-the-Plow," "Sexual Perversity in Chicago" and "Glengarry Glen Ross...