Word: tryout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...eighth grade, the basketball coach pulled me aside after the second day of a three-day tryout. "You know, Brian," he said, trying to be gentle, "I could really use a good statistician." (A long happy career in sports information was born, but that's another endpaper...
Delta Gamma President Brooke E. Winkle '95 says the major difference between the single-sex final clubs and the sororities is that the clubs "punch," or select, prospective members to participate in the tryout process. Sororities, on the other hand, have "open" rushes, meaning that any woman can try out without an invitation from senior members...
Look at Brian Farrell '94. Coming off a stellar senior season in the Harvard hockey program, he was given a tryout by his favorite professional team, the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL. As a non-drafted free agent, his chances were slim and none of making the big-time so soon, and yet he startled a lot of people in camp, even making the Penguins' final West Coast road trip of the exhibition season...
...designer Eugene Lee and cogently if somewhat briskly conducted by Jeffrey Huard, this Show Boat is a near perfect staging of the work that had announced to the world the maturity of American musical theater. The alleged racial bias in the plot, which occasioned protests during the tryout of the Toronto production last year, is nowhere to be found here. To see Show Boat is to experience how potent the Broadway ideal can be in the hands of a master like Prince...
Forget Boston and New Haven. Broadway's favorite tryout town is still London -- of 29 current or soon-to-come Broadway productions, 13 are at least partly British in origin. That number includes not only Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals but also works by Americans, such as Angels in America, Kiss of the Spider Woman and now Carousel. David Mamet's next drama, The Cryptogram, will debut in London before it hits Broadway, just as his Pulitzer prizewinner Glengarry Glen Ross...