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...turned on my computer,” Wegner recalls with a chuckle. “His face came on the screen and ‘Black Magic Woman’ started playing. I couldn’t make it go away. I have no idea why that particular song, or what was going on, but it just seemed like the thing for Gilbert...
...character in the first act of “A Little Night Yiddish.” The play, written by Laura M. Togut ’08, may not answer this question, but it certainly gives the viewer a visual treat in its presentation of Yiddish theater and song. Despite a hard-to-follow plotline and technical difficulties related to the projection of English subtitles, the show was amusing and the cast was enthusiastic. Unfamiliarity with the Yiddish language or Jewish traditions didn’t prevent anyone from having a good time. “A Little Night Yiddish?...
...confident Colonel Calverley (Eliot Shimer ’11), the group’s robust stature and well-timed side-commentary provided a necessary comedic counterpoint to Bunthorne’s effeminacy. Patience’s’ expressive solo “Love is a Plaintiff Song,” perfectly paired with the articulate woodwinds, was exquisite. But perhaps the oppressive feeling of the caricatures is inherent in any Gilbert and Sullivan production and is itself testament to the Players’ historical accuracy. “Patience” was wildly popular when it premiered...
Writing this column yet again, I feel like a DJ who plays the same song over and over again: The governance of this College is broken. If we needed any further proof, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) provided it last Tuesday when it failed to achieve quorum at its most recent meeting. Over the past four years, votes at a third of FAS’s meetings have been meaningless because our rotating deans could not gather a sixth of the Faculty’s 700-or-so members—the minimum threshold for votes to become...
...piece, “fallen,falling,” opens the show. “I was having an e.e. cummings moment,” she says of the title. The piece, which was performed in its first incarnation two years ago, is performed to a song by famed king of the tango Astor Piazzolla. Koch tried to pair the song with choreography that’s not explicitly tango-based, but that rather “evokes the weight” that she felt in the song.The show also includes a dance to the music of country singer Loretta...