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...With an unbelievably talented cast and an imaginative production team, the show—which runs through March 18—is truly an overwhelming experience. The plot centers on the rivalry and subsequent unification of two circus troupes (the conventional “Big Tops” and the positively perverse “Freaks”), but it’s more an excuse for the aforementioned puns and glitter than an integral part of the show...
...Choreographer Karen Pisani strikes the perfect balance between complexity and the obvious. High heels and all, the cast deftly spins, cartwheels, and taps its way into each new sexually suggestive configuration. “Circus Tricks” and the clown-kickline finale are particular highlights...
...Likewise, the cast lacks a musical weak link. Aside from some fairly distracting microphone problems, the harmonies and diction were delivered clearly. Thomas R. Compton ’09 easily has the best voice in the cast as the romantically frustrated, three-breasted “Lotta Boobies” (get it?!). His forlorn lament “A Lotta Love” ranges from passages of delicate melodicism to “Stand and Deliver”-level force...
...stereotype of the stiff-upper-lip Brit, unflappable in the face of crisis, but there's not a hint of condescension or satire. Yes, the young commander of the company, the competent, hard-drinking Stanhope (Hugh Dancy, the Brit heartthrob who's a standout in a cast of mostly Americans), lets slip a few bitterly sarcastic words about the general who has ordered the unnecessary raid. But no antiwar playwright could have written the delicate scene in which Stanhope tries to buck up, without shaming, a cowardly officer who is faking illness to avoid battle: "Supposing the worst happened - supposing...
...disappointed to read the comments published in the February 6 issue of The Harvard Crimson, since they are not only incorrect, but cast negative light on areas in which Nestlé has put much effort and made significant advance...