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...there are some, like Fred Hood '02, who disagree. "The Importance of Being Earnest is an upper-class British play and that's where [Oscar] Wilde takes the humor. I saw a lot of minorities try out, and I came into it pretty open, but the world I'm trying to create is British. [As such] everyone needs to be white. I casted as color-blindly as I would allow myself within the context of 18th-century England...
...When the show got underway, the mostly 20-something crowd was more attuned to the television and the BoSox game than the first contestant, Fred, who tends at T.G.I. Friday's. The crowd was more supportive of Rebekah, who had a home court advantage since she tends at the Blue Cat. Unlike Fred, Rebekah prepared the drinks simultaneously, instead of in order. Consequently, in the end, her ordering produced faster results...
...performer right in the eye. "We use real theater dancers, Broadway dancers, because they're such strong actors," Stroman explains. "It's almost like a dance company and an acting company coming together." The feel is that of a trio of exquisitely tooled MGM-style production numbers, but updated (Fred Astaire didn't use the F word in The Band Wagon) and given emotional weight. Each playlet is peopled with lonely hearts longing to reach out to someone, and when they finally touch, your own heart will do all the singing necessary...
...round of auditions, setting up a veritable shrine to themselves in a side room in which the audtioners wait their turn. As they sit, or pace, they can watch tapes of the Kroks at Carnegie Hall or peruse black and white photos of old members, including the Munsters' own Fred Gwynne '51. The Kroks have identical clipboards and inspect each potential member as a mechanic would an engine, walking up as he sings, bending over and listening with furrowed brow to the nervous auditioner's stab at the Krok standards. "Hmmm," they say and scribble on the clipboards...
Candidate Alfred B. "Fred" Fantini said teachers need to adjust their styles to meet the needs of individual students, while incumbent Alice L. Turkel said students need adult mentors in their schools...