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...been switched around since the opener, as O'Con nor has tried to find the best combination. Yesterday's team had a front line of Kathy A goos, Maude Wood, Cha Nantang and Laury Johnson who substituted for the injured Kathy Lindsay. Diana Finch, Nancy Sato and Jan Weller started as halfbacks with Paula Balboni and Liz Gorden backing them up in the fullback slots. Bar by Matson is firmly entrenched in the goalie position...
MOONCHILDREN, by Michael Weller, about the people he shared a house with during his last year at Brandeis (1965). Very funny, very strong, eminently enjoyable and worth seeing, and only two weeks before it leaves for Broadway, where an earlier production got unanimous rave reviews and closed after three nights. 7:30. Saturday 6:30 and 10, Sunday 2:30 and 7:30, at the New Theater, 12 Holyoke Street...
MOON CHILDREN, by Michael Weller. This is really fine--funny, sad, and as accurate a portrayal of student life as you're likely to see on the stage. If you already know what student life is like, but don't object to good comedies, you'll enjoy it anyway, 7:30 at the New Theater, 12 Holyoke Street...
...secretary who envied my freedom. "You study math?" he asked the graduate student. "I'd have liked to study math...My father made me study law." When he realizes the students are of both sexes, the encyclopedia salesman's envy soars still higher, but I don't think Weller thinks that's the core of it. To people like the encyclopedia salesman -- constrained by economic necessity to spend much or most of their time doing things they do not enjoy for businesses they neither control nor profit from -- just living away from home, attaining even just the semblance of control...
...students in Moonchildren don't feel emancipated, they feel irrelevant, and in the last act, Weller shows why: After graduation they probably won't even see each other again. Mike, whose tutor says he is a genius in physics, will inherit his father's lumber business. As his girlfriend points out, even if he were to become a professor of physics, in 20 years he would only discover that he was being funded by the CIA. Mike's girlfriend is all set to marry him and be a housewife. "You've changed, you really have changed," Kathy tells her bitterly...