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Writing in the current Ramparts, Andrew Kopkind notes I.F. Stone's perception that the outrageous performance of Jerry Rubin, decked out in "Paul Revere drag," before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1966 was a turning point...
...HASTY PUDDING Show is the kind of thing that lives on its precedents, since no post-Freudian group of undergraduates could begin a routine of dressing up in drag to amuse people. But once the practice can be justified by the past, the show can float merrily along without being subject to serious questions. Still, it is a little odd, or at least surprising, if you divorce yourself from the Harvard context of what-a-funny-example-of-tradition-here...
...Pudding Shows. It seems pitiful to spend money to see a show like HPT 126 Keep Your Pantheon, and this year's show, as HPT productions go, is good. But it's good within the tradition, and there is more to that tradition than just dressing up in drag--it also means wooden acting, amiable incompetence in the kicklines, slick p.r. (all that Man-of-the-Year stuff), and a certain alcoholic preppiness. There is also a tradition of making bundles of money on the show, enough for everyone to go to Bermuda and to help support the Hasty Pudding...
Most of the acting is stiff and stock. No one would want the guys in drag to be really capable at female impersonations, but competence rarely threatens the Pudding's stage. David Lewis, as Hera, and Michael Gury, as the Oracle of Housephli and Bulah the maid, are both sure of themselves and appear to have some idea of how to act under utterly farcical conditions. Mark Miller, as Zeus, is mostly a foil for Lewis, and his Nixon imitations were, to say the least, strange in a Pudding Show. Relevance in drag, and in black tie, is always...
...sudden you get this spoof on the Kilgore Rangers, doing a drum and bugle routine with flags carried like rifles, men dressed in drag imitating women dressed in men's clothes. It becomes hard to follow, which is probably a good thing, since God knows where you'd end up if you followed them wherever they're going...