Word: cadiff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...given but one year--call it 1976--in which to work, the all-new admissions team managed to rebuild Radcliffe's sweat squads faster than it takes Andy Cadiff to get seconds on shrimp curry...
According to Staines, a translation of the Buffeting by Andrew Cadiff '77 and Anne Montgomery '74 will be used in a new series on Medieval drama to be televised on the Public Broadcasting System next month...
...legend goes that when Oklahoma! left Boston for New York (with the title Away We Go!) one reviewer up here kissed it off writing, "No legs, no jokes, no chance." Andy Cadiff, in his adaptation has stretched those odds, bringing in dialogue from the earlier straight play, Lynn Riggs' Green Grow the Lilacs, from which the musical was shaped. In doing so, he's underlined themes which had been implicitly obvious and undercut the celebrated cohesiveness that had made the show famous. Oklahoma! survives as a sturdy vehicle because all of its components synchronize and drive the show forward. This...
...surprise when someone attempts to resurrect a musical so often done as though it were a rare, savorable slightly missing masterpiece. Cadiff's Oklahoma! replaces things that were never gone. No matter how much hamburger helper gets poured into this show the strength of its music and a few good actors will always drive audiences to happy nostalgia for a time they never knew. The one thing that has been genuinely improved here is the end: the show has never closed so benignly or with such a nice nod to nature before...
This fall's Loeb schedule looks promising: George Bernard Shaw's Candida coming up in late October, and Scapino, an adaptation of a play by Molier, and Oklahoma!, directed by Andy Cadiff, who has been trying for years to make the corny musical into an art form...