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...first glance the interior of Sweet Touch cafe and bakery seems an innocuous place. It's cozy--the sort of place where you might want to take your mom for a quick lunch and a homemade brownie. But a more careful inspection reveals a few items that might make mom choke on her Swiss roll...
...could well be that the only thing at Harvard older than the boxing club is its coach, Tommy Rawson. The club was founded more than a century ago and can boast having schooled Teddy Roosevelt '04 in the sweet science. Rawson, born in 1908, can boast of many more interesting things...
Aaron Caughey plays the Captain in suitable slapstick fashion, although his accent change in the final scene is a bit bewildering. His singing is nevertheless very solid and done with great gusto. Sarah Cullins as Josephine has a sweet, pleasant voice, but is expressionless throughout. She seems unable to sing and act simultaneously. Stephen Curtis as Josephine's suitor gives a good performance as a bumbling old fool, although his voice is a bit timid to start...
...never sure whether it helps or hurts overall that I don't seem aggressive, tough or argumentative at first glance. Many people, including some who have known me for years, consider me a sweet little Southern girl with a nice manner and cheerful smile. (Add the difference in regional perception, and the problem is compounded.) They don't see the steel in my soul...
...witches' brew of cabaret, silent-movie slapstick, Expressionist psychodrama, Japanese theater, lounge lizardry and high-tech wizardry. What keeps it bubbling is a melodic succession of wheezy parlor waltzes, barroom blues, moon-June pop and ersatz Kurt Weill. What gives it fizz is gallows humor, antiwar mockery, sweet sentiment and an inventiveness that more than honors the imperative laid down years ago by Sergei Diaghilev to Jean Cocteau: "Astonish...