Word: laugher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adelaide, goofs things up to near disaster but remains one of the most hysterically funny--and sweetly romantic--'guys' in the entire production. Mills, no stranger to the Hasty Pudding stage, lets the less farcical side of his acting abilities shine through while still making the audience howl with laugher and exuding a voice to swoon over...
...fiance (of 14 years!) Nathan, and the audience giggles; she prances around stage as the lead "Hot Box" girl, and the audience roars; she impishly mourns the possibility that Nathan might never marry her, and the audience audibly sighs in sympathy. One twitch of her eyebrows sends everyone into laugher; her shoulder-shimmying, red-wearing, bad-accent-sporting, all-out Adelaide brings down the house...
...looked strong out of the blocks, bearing little resemblance to the squad that dropped a 70-49 laugher to Marquette in its opener four days...
...week later, Harvard again seemed to be on its way to a laugher, as it entered the fourth quarter leading Lehigh 35-6. Menick rushed 15 times for a career-high 121 yards, and Jones added 97 before injuring his ankle. However, the Crimson gave up four consecutive passing touchdowns to Lehigh's second-string quarterback; fortunately, all four ensuing two-point conversion attempts failed and Harvard escaped...
...final act of "Musicians" certainly gets pulses pounding again, but with mixed results. The four black men who shoot their middle fingers towards the taxis that refuse to give them rides at the end of "Taxi" win laugher and cheers from the audience, but at a cost of crassness. Also, in the very last number--a reprise of the opening song "Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk"--the cast stops tap-dancing at moments to clumsily imitate ballet as Silcott reads from a book in a faux British accent. The actions were mildly humorous, but seemed...