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...BOOM!” Given that the Pool Theatre is quite a small venue, the rock band that accompanies the actors’ performances is a surprisingly strong presence without overpowering the actors. Keyboardist Joshua R. Stein ’10, bassist Joseph C. Higgins ’11, guitarist Shane P. Donovan ’09, and drummer Sami Majadla ’11 successfully toe the line between soulful melody and a catchy beat. Although the show’s opening and conclusion might lack energy, the great music and the actors’ interesting dance moves...
...turns out to be more of a plot point than a character. His wealth derives from composing commercial jingles, but his heart belongs to his former ambitions to be guitarist in a rock band. But the chaste attraction that springs up between him and Juno, and his defection from his marriage, which briefly jeopardizes the adoption, turn out to be rather beside the movie's real point, which is to make us admire Juno's unconquerable spirit...
...Edwards graduated as class president and valedictorian of Wellesley High School and was an accomplished skier and tennis player, according to a death notice circulated by his father. A self-taught guitarist, Edwards had been learning to play the Led Zeppelin song “Stairway to Heaven,” Mangan said...
Which took another 15 years. He was part of a comedy troupe at Knott's Berry Farm, studied philosophy at Cal State at Long Beach and played banjo (another of his studious obsessions) with guitarist Mason Williams, who'd had an instrumental pop hit, Classical Gas. Williams helped him get a writing job on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, for which Martin won an Emmy at 23. But what he really wanted to do was stand-up--to have people laugh not at the jokes he wrote for others but at and with...
...nights. The crowd’s reaction dictates all—offending acts are booed off-stage, and the winner is voted in by enthusiastic cheers. The show’s acts varied in genre as well as skill, including dance performances, a vocalist, a spoken-word artist, a guitarist, and—of course—several requisite references to Soulja Boy. Rejection wasn’t always determined by talent: the undergraduate dance group Expressions kicked off the night with a high-tech display, and the audience was quick to boo a glitch in the sound system...