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There were 53 of us that year, as usual more than half women. Age 18 put you pretty much in the middle of a group of high school and college students with an occasional doctor or lawyer thrown in for comic relief. Plunked down in the lush countryside, ten miles from booming Keene. N. H.--seven pizza parlors and four police cars--we spent our days rehearsing, singing, and studying music theory...
DIED. Murray Kaufman, 60, alias "Murray the K," zany, hip-talking disc jockey whose comic hysteria on New York City rock 'n' roll radio programs made him a cult figure for millions of teen-agers during the 1960s; of cancer; in Los Angeles. One of the first and best of rock's high-pitched, jabbering deejays, Kaufman punctuated his broadcasts with shrieks, howls and a miscellany of sounds: trains crashing, cavalry charging, crazed laughter. He helped promote the Beatles during their first visit to the U.S. in 1964, and appeared in the rock quartet's second...
Sealed With a Quiche, the Pudding's most recent installment of Holyoke Street's (and possibly America's) longest ongoing tradition concerns the efforts of one French lass to solicit a British nobleman--the some-time super-hero Captain Comic--and save her father from death at the hands of the rebelling masses. That's insurgent guerrillas, in modern parlance. It should be noted, if not too carefully, that the past two pudding shows have dealt with the theme of peasants rising up against their masters. And in both the masters fight them off to triumph in the end. Looks...
...last night's assembly had degenerated into its own big party. As Lord Basil Decongestant and Lady Wilmaslipshow cavorted on stage, be-fogged alums and sotted students groped with one another, threw rice and generally had a hell of a time. So what if they couldn't hear Captain Comic, aka Lord Clark of Kent, aka Chad Hummel or even less from Ophelia Thise, played by Michael Anderson, who is mirable dictum, president of Hasty Pudding Theatricals. And may be there did seem to be two too many dancers on the stage all the time. Who, after all, really cares...
OSMOND IS fortunate to be surrounded by accomplished stage professionals. Peter Van Norden brings Anthony Anstey to disreputable life. Ernie Sabella does a hilarious burlesque comic turn. As the kooky Mrs. Kenworth, Anna McNeely is a model of repressed Edwardian sexuality ready to burst at her ample seams. Her awesome vocal apparatus displayed in "The Voice in My Heart" could not only blow the whole cast of Dreamgirls away but teach them some musical technique as well. Finally as Goldie Gates Maureen Brennan displays a lovely voice, marvelous comic timing, and a delightful ingenue quality...