Word: sondheimer
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Laurents was offered plenty of advice about ways to improve the show -- from composers Stephen Sondheim and Jerry Herman and playwright Anthony Shaffer, among others, according to sources close to the producers. It was all rejected. So was the testimony of the public, which walked out in droves. At a performance last week, two elderly women in the front row tottered out about 20 minutes before the end. This writer, seated behind, longed to join them...
...Harvard what is one moment a slovenly dining hall may metamorphose into an elegant cabaret theater the next. Fanatics of Stephen Sondheim's tunes are fortunate that one such transformation occurs in the Dunster House Dining Hall--tables gain placemats and food service workers become tuxedo-clad waiters serving nachos and salsa gratis...
Starting Over With Sondheim is the fifth annual performance by the Harvard/Radcliffe Performing Artists' AIDS Coalition. The ensemble of three men and three women sing, dance and animate 22 songs from Sondheim's extensive collection. Classic selections, such as "Tonight" from West Side Story and "Pretty Lady" from Pacific Overtures, are intermixed with some recent endeavors...
...overall structure of the Sondheim cabaret is rather bland. After each song, the house lights dim until the players move in place on stage for the next number. Some variation in the almost 20 transitions would have been welcome...
Starting Over With Sondheim--at 8:30 p.m. in the Dunster House dining hall. Tickets are $10, $6 for students. Call 266-7754 for information...