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Quick. Brainstorm themes for a typical tap-dancing number—cane and all—in a musical comedy. A night on the town? Sure. A suspenseful mystery? Possibly. A new love? Absolutely. But a sponge bath number in a nursing home, sung and danced by a man doomed to die in minutes? One would think not. Luckily for Harvard theatergoers, the writers of the original musical “The Life and Deaths of Mr. Plumb”—Michael C. Mitnick ’06, Robert M. Pennoyer ’05, and Kiernan...
What Listing, Please? Searching the Web can bring the world to your door. But if you only want a tap fixed or a pizza delivered, you can end up wishing the world would just go away. Business directory suppliers have been struggling for years to make money from their local online listings for small businesses; most pizzerias and plumbers don't need the global reach of the most popular search engines and are reluctant to pay to advertise on the less used, local ones. But the arrival in the U.K. last week of Google Local (local.google.co.uk), could be the answer...
Spoken towards the end of Graffiti, the performance at the Loeb Experimental Theater this weekend, these words could have been the (ideological) motivation for the show’s production. The heels of tap dancers beating on the stage, the percussionists banging pots and pans, the deejay scratching his records, the projection of spoken word performers’ voices, and the whisper of a graffiti spray can, combine to create an almost deafening roar...
...their introduction climaxes, a series of tap dance pieces takes over the central stage. Though the costume style and music range from hip-hop to be-bop, the dancers assume a common attitude in all the pieces. With their hiips thrown forward, shoulders back, they keep up an air of citified cool as they move about the stage. Like mythical hipsters, they mark out their territory, while their body language and facial expression flippantly warn not to mess...
...reminiscent of city streets during and after work-hours, dancers move on and off the stage so that while at one moment it may be crowded with bodies, at the next, it empties, giving two or three dancers the chance to show off more refined steps. And although the tap dancing is well-done and pleasantly rhythmic, it is when the Loeb’s small stage is filled that the dancing makes a statement in line with the introductory spoken word performance...