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...director Peter C. Shields Jr. ’09 can make the dancers’ story resonate with Harvard students, much as New Yorkers will judge whether Avian’s version lives up to Michael Bennett’s original.This constant self-reflection—reviving theater about theater??preoccupies many modern Broadway productions. It is particularly telling that three of these currently-running meta-musicals—“A Chorus Line,” “Spamalot,” and “The Producers”—each received...
...editors: Reasonable people can differ about whether the so-called “foyer of Sanders Theater?? truly has “lackluster ambience,” as stated in a recent Crimson article (“Is the New Fly-by Taking Off?” news, October 4, 2006). For many other visitors since 1874, the Memorial Hall transept has been a place of moving beauty. What is unarguable is that it was never meant to be a fast-food eatery. It was and is Harvard’s memorial to the 136 Harvard affiliates...
...Cantabrigians ventured out to partake in the celebration.“Some weekends there’s huge crowds, and then some weekends there aren’t,” said Barry A. Shafrin ’09, who preformed in the Sunken Garden Children’s Theater??s production of “A Tale of Two Cities.” “I feel like Arts First is really good because people will make a connection to the arts and want to see shows in the future.”The OFA also...
...PATRICK R. CHESNUT Crimson Staff Writer Charles Dickens, Oprah Winfrey, and Scooby Doo might not seem to have much in common, but each made an appearance in the Sunken Garden Children’s Theater??s adaptation of “A Tale of Two Cities,” which ran in Radcliffe Yard from May 5 to 7. Taking its cues more from “Shrek” than from Dickens, the play worked as both a comedic children’s show and a delightful postmodern farce. The play, co-directed by Mary E. Birnbaum...
...creative staff behind them if they are to connect with a modern audience.” Mitnick, the recipient of the Office of the Arts’ (OFA) Doris Cohen Levi Prize for the “best combination of talent and energy with an outstanding enthusiasm for musical theater?? is already hard at work stirring up the world of musical theater. Prior to college, Mitnick had written a handful of shows that were performed at his high school, but said that he arrived at Harvard with a “pretty similar background to everybody...