Word: wollan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...glad to see Jennifer Wollan's article in the February 14th issue of the Crimson concerning the "not different enough" selection of plays being offered by the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club on the Loeb Drama Center Mainstage...
...would like to make a few points here, in reference to Ms. Wollan's article. First, we are primarily an educational institution. The Loeb provides an incredible opportunity in allowing us to work in a professional space with little "commercial" restraints, an opportunity which when we graduate will never be given to us again. We are not simply "any good residential theatre"--we have a responsibility to the community to provide good theater, but we have an equally large if not greater responsibility to provide the fullest education possible for student community. I am not saying that the production...
...Wollan's largest difficulty seems to be with the small number of musicals that have appeared on the Mainstage recently. First, the Mainstage is a large, cavernous, expanse of a theater: this presents difficult acoustical problems. Obviously, it is essential to hear performers in a musical distinctly and clearly. Second, musicals that would fill the physical expanse of the Mainstage are often too big. We do have a limited budget, augment of time, technical expertise, and labor, there is often a worry that these constraints will not to do the musical production justice. Thirdly, musicals are "component" works: acting, singing...