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...lots of other people. Because the Internet allows moviegoers to learn about movies before they're in production, a vocal group of connoisseurs--nerds, if you will--were able to keep tabs on Snakes on a Plane. Most saw the title and had the same reaction as Jackson. This, they thought, is the kind of exuberant, self-aware tastelessness that can unite everyone at the summer box office. Not only did they demand that the title stay, they wanted violence, profane monologues from Jackson--the Olivier of the F bomb--and graphic snakebites. And they made sure the filmmakers knew...
...brought their “infectious attitudes” and a useless family painting to be appraised on the show, delivering the catchy tune, “Masterpiece.” Later, Kawaller and Smith opened the second act as foxy cabaret singers, offering refreshing vocal precision.The attractive set design (Kathleen E. Breeden ’09 and Sally H. Rinehart ’09) included Antiques Roadshow banners, a fancy living room, and a conventionally insipid backstage dressing room. The set for the red, decadent bar scene was especially attractive. With 22 cast members, the larger-than-usual cast...
...Despite these drawbacks, individual actors are able to stand up in their own right. Directed and produced by Cabot House’s Assistant to the Masters Susan Livingston, “West Side Story” runs from April 20 to 29 in the Cabot Junior Common Room. Vocal Director Paul Huberdeau and Orchestra Director Aaron Berkowitz, ably navigate the cast through Bernstein’s difficult score. Written by Arthur Laurent, “West Side Story” updates Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” The division between two rival...
...punk rock. At the other end of the spectrum is Lim, who is a music concentrator in Cabot House. “I wouldn’t even consider my piece an opera,” says Lim; “It’s more of a theatrical vocal piece.” Her opera, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” is based on a series of poems by Keats, and requires only two singers and a string quartet. Wang, a senior in Mather House, says his opera, “Technical Support...
...spot on. Many of the album’s tracks recreate the faux-Satanic feel of classic Black Sabbath and Bauhaus. The Furnaces substitute creepy synthesizer effects for death metal power chords, but the results are equally ominous. The Furnaces even go so far as to record backmasked vocals on a handful of songs, recalling the urban myths about demonic subliminal messages in heavy metal music. Unlike some of their influences, The Furnaces have a great sense of humor. On “Oh Sweet Woods,” Eleanor Friedberger—the band’s vocalist...