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...hard to read all this as breast-baring confession, or at least rueful self-parody, except that it quickly veers into fiction. Bret (this is the fictional Bret) has managed to sire a son with an actress named Jayne Dennis, and when he flunks out of his umpteenth rehab he decides to save himself by marrying her, moving to Connecticut and becoming a regular suburban dad. But Bret brings his demons with him, both figuratively--he can't kick the sauce and he's haunted by his late alcoholic, rageoholic father--and literally: the Connecticut McMansion is assailed by supernatural...
...mundane over the insane. At times, the play is simply making the same cracks that we’ve all made to each other about dining hall food, messy roommates, and Yale. While the goal often seems to be the groan-snicker of recognition that comes with the umpteenth comment about these constants of life, even in song form the well-worn jokes have gotten somewhat dull from repetition. They often seem obligatory, as if authors Aliza H. Aufrichtig ’08 and Ximena S. Vengoechea ’08 felt duty-bound to include everybody?...
...then the Tsunami came on Christmas. As I watched the umpteenth commercial for Christmas sales while I obsessed over the dead children washing up on the beach far away, I couldn’t believe that the irony of the situation was being overlooked. How could people think that life was the product of a master plan? Didn’t people wonder whether our money and arms—much less our hearts—were in the right place...
Three up and three down. Off the mound ambles the umpteenth example of coach Joe Walsh’s recruiting proficiency...
...string of flops. Of the seven musicals that have made it to Broadway so far this season, four closed after runs of three weeks or less; last week's ingratiating revival of a 1959 hit, Take Me Along, folded the day after it opened. The survivors are the umpteenth revival of The King and I and two April entries, both pummeled by reviewers: Leader of the Pack, a rock nostalgia show, and Grind, a $4 million-plus spectacle set in a 1930s burlesque hall. They are to be joined this week by the season's last hope, Big River...