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...good. Krag "jumped at the chance" to accompany the musical and pretty soon was showing up for every rehearsal, an unheard of thing for an accompanist to do. That led to an offer for the next fall to be associate music director with John Posner for Fiorello!, a Grant-In-Aid production, which led to an offer this spring from the Gilbert and Sullivan board, to be music director of Princess...
...much of the Grant-In-Aid board's reluctance to let Krag handle the musical direction of Fiorello! alone is due to her being a woman is "debatable," says Krag, and she cites her inexperience and the fact that Grant-in-Aid has worked with Posner before as more important factors. "Right now I'm much happier I did it with John. I learned so much from him....Fiorello! really worked. I got on really well with the orchestra and they thought I taught them...
This year, LaZebnik wrote a new show, Mad About Mintz, a musical comedy about the efforts of an advertising agency to convert a hack poet into the best-selling bard of the country. Armed with a volunteer orchestra and a full production team. LaZebnik tackled Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid for funds to produce the show in Agassiz. The society had a reputation for supporting original musicals, having produced Suffragette in 1973 (now playing successfully in New York) and others before that. But after more than a months deliberation, the Advisory Board of Grant-In-Aid rejected the show, claiming that...
...drawing up a constitution, finding faculty sponsors, applying for a grant from a New York organization devoted to the promotion of musical theater, and embarking upon an aggressive PR campaign, the HPS is now soliciting unsecured loans from people connected in some way with the arts at Harvard. So far, HPS has been able to offer LaZebnik $2000, an amount that no house drama society would ever be willing to risk on an original show. The $2000 allows LaZebnik to rent Agassiz Theater, Independent of Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid, and thus possibly to earn up to $5500 in ticket receipts...
...also been effectively hushed up by the HDC board's closed-door policy, whereby rejected applicants for slots were left with no idea as to why their plays were rejected. LaZebnik found similar seemingly irrational standards of choice in other areas of Harvard drama. His rejection by Radcliffe Grant-In-Aid seemed to him to have been based on the belief that he was not "a Grant-In-Aid type of person," that his was not a Grant-In-Aid type of show. Bemused by this aura of "Grant-In-Aidness" which the board seemed to be looking for, LaZebnik...