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...show is more than improve. More than half the material, in fact, is made up of original skills and songs written by members of the group--most of them by Holbrook and George Melrod '82, a former Lampoon editor, who gave the humorous Ivy oration at Class Day last spring. These include takeoffs on TV commercials and news shows and new wave songs...
...frequently fall flat and occasionally a skit is lost before it ever gets off the ground, but that's the beauty--and the risk--of a live performance, And the infrequent bumbles are more than made up for by the group's strongest pieces. One standout is the Melrod-penned Shakespearean soap opera called "Most Grievous Hospital," which is rendered in Elizabethan rhyming couplets from the introduction by a character named Gossip ("Enjoy the play, friends, Gossip now be gone. I'll change my costume quickly and return anon.") It continues through a brief and purposefully confusing ploy of divorces...
Michael R. Mills '82, Elizabeth D. Kalodner '82, and George Melrod '82 will deliver the traditional Class Day Orations this year, the selection committee of class marshalls and House representatives announced yesterday...
...Melrod, who will present the traditionally humorous Ivy Oration, yesterday expressed his hope that the entire Class Day crowd enjoys his speech. "But," added Melrod, "if just one person in the entire audience smiles just a little bit, then my speech will have been a tremendous failure...
...brand of humor (mostly one-liners and weak puns) which may or may not appeal to you. The show can't juggle all of its problems--for example, the script--but the charming performances by female leads Andrea Eisenberg and Amy Acquino may keep you interested. George Melrod as the detective is the quintessential Columbo parody. Unfortunately these individual talents are spoiled by generally weak voices and hidden by a director and choreographer who have conspired to squeeze as much on to the tiny Agassiz theater stage as possible. Fred Barton's music, while repetitive, often sparkles--watch especially...