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...begins another rehearsal of Athol Fugard's Master Harold...and The Boys, the latest in a series of plays produced by the Black Community and Student Theater (CAST)--the only undergraduate drama group for Black students on campus...
CAST differs from other College theater groups not only because of its choice of works performed, but also because it allows members of the Cambridge community to participate, says former president Inger D. Tudor '87, producer of Master Harold. Although the focus is on the Black experience, participation in a CAST production is open to everyone...
This fall's production, Master Harold is about a 17-year-old South African boy in the 1950s and his relationship with the two Black, middle-aged servants who have raised him. The play was written four years ago and is a fictionalized account of the childhood of its author, Fugard...
...Master Harold, which opens in the Lowell House Lower Common Room November 13, marks the directing debut for veteran actor Kenneth W. Johnson '87. The Leverett House senior says he has wanted to see the play performed at the College since his freshman year. "It's set in South Africa, but can apply anywhere," says the Government concentrator. "The play subtly lets you see how racism is ingrained in an institution, how a young boy doesn't realize it and then how he has to confront it," he says...
...winners of the race to stage a Phantom in a major commercial setting, Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and Director Harold Prince, have proved the shrewdness of their unlikely impulse. Within two days after the $3 million spectacular opened in London's West End this month, the box office was virtually sold out until early 1987. Webber and Prince have daringly envisioned Phantom not as Grand Guignol but as an opportunity to turn the musical back toward what they term romance. Ironically, Lloyd Webber (Evita) and Prince (Sweeney Todd) have been leaders in the movement to push musicals beyond traditional...