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...Tsar is Born. The Hasty PuddingTheatricals' 147 production will run until March21. Hasty Pudding Theater, 12 Holyoke St.,Cambridge, 8 p.m. Call 495-5202 for tickets.24 February Friday
This year's show, A Tsar is Born, was co-authored by Mark Baskin, a Dunster House senior, and Jason Cooper, a junior from Kirkland House. Baskin and Cooper met two years ago, when both were in the cast of Romancing the Throne...
Lonely as they are, however, the men seem resigned to their fate, reading copies of Playserf when they get bored. Enter plot twist number one: the bad guy. Sir Noble Meltdown, the evil town magistrate, arrives bearing an order he says is from the Tsar: All unmarried Undergraduates must leave their homes within 24 hours or face the penalty of death...
From this point, it's pretty clear where the plot is headed. Just two major twists remain. First, we learn that the Tsar has been comatose for six months, leaving his wife, the power-hungry feminist Empress Uponyou, in charge of the country. (The Empress is an early version of a two-career woman, running Russia while caring for her daughter, the bratty, psychopathic Princess Ivanna Tention...
Last night at the official opening of `A Tsar is Born,' Oscar winner Hanks received the 1995 Hasty Pudding Theatrical's Man of the Year award and a brassiere embellished with grapes to boot...