Word: zax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the disappearing study cards have inconvenienced both students and administrators, everyone involved seems to be responding good-naturedly. As David Zax '79, one of the students whose study cards were lost, said yesterday, "it's Harvard, what...
Comedy tonight it is. Jeff Zax gives an excellent performance as Pseudolus, obsessed with one thing: getting his freedom. He conceives a plot to get the girl for his master Hero and his life for himself, circumventing Roman tradition and the captain Miles Gloriosus (among others) in the process. Zax has about one sober moment on stage when, as Prologus, he sets the scene and asks for the blessing of Thespis. But there is a nuttiness in his eyes which leaves you with the feeling that he's not all that serious. It turns out that he wasn...
...Zax strikes almost exactly the right balance between a mad Rasputin and a slightly zany Bobby Fischer, plotting and counter-plotting all the moves to freedom. His role is the centerpiece of the musical, and he adds direction and keeps the musical teetering somewhere out on the brink, where, of course, it is supposed to be. The trouble with doing Forum is that the shadow of Zero Mostel looms over this central part like a chicken hawk over the barnyard, ready to swoop down on young actors. Zax stacks up--he won't make anybody forget Mostel, but he will...
...relatively safe position--for freedom to be sure--but also for Hero. The song "Free" is a real high-point, spotlighting the two best male singers n the cast. Pseudolus has convinced himself that freedom is not worth the risk, and Hero whispers "free" seductively into his ear. Zax's face lights up; maybe it didn't take all that much persuading, but after all, the play must...
...past G&S shows like the gimmicky H.M.S. Pinafore of two years ago, but it features moments of comic brilliance rarely matched on the Harvard stage. The scene in which two Lords try to decide which will win the hand of fair young Phyllis is superbly executed, with Jeff Zax and Clifton Lewis playing off each other like pros. Dennis Crowley mades an equisitely tormented Lord Chancellor, Susan W . Van Colt and Douglas Morgan as the straight leads have a beautiful pair of voices, and Sallyu Stunkel plays the Queen of the fairies in a style pleasantly reminiscent of Glinda...