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Laws. Law school students make fun of themselves in their annual show, an original musical comedy about a daydreamer who imagines himself such diverse characters as Perry Mason and the Six Million Dollar Justice. Recommended for pre-laws. In the Multipurpose Room in Pound Hall, March 11-14 and 17-20, at 8 p.m. Tickets...
...Fortunately the real Americans still live and exist south of the Mason-Dixon line...
...that her mission is to recruit two of every species, including them, for a spaceship trip to heaven. After that, all antic hell breaks loose. Instant magic occurs: appearances and disappearances, deaths, resurrections, changes of identity, autokinetic kitchen utensils and finally Joan's celestial levitation. Director Marshall W. Mason moves all the UFOs and the splendid cast at a rocketing pace. The words are manic-puns, syllogisms, answer-and-question games, in that order. Some scenes are animated versions of Feiffer's cartoon strips. Basically one-line throwaways, they lack dramatic continuity, but they sputter with hilarity...
...back simultaneously so that his hair glows around him like a halo, Sarastro is presented as a wise, paternal New Testament God. The Queen is very female and very nasty, the kind of role Bette Davis made unforgettable. Her malevolent, teeth-gnashing character is a product of the Mason's profound anti-female bias (as Sarastro explains the abduction to Pamina: "You need a man to guide you."). Prince Tamino, the initiate-to-be, has both ineffable simplicity and moral sturdiness. A trusting character, he's not terribly bright. He understands nothing of the immortal intrigues going on above...
...Wodehouse loved this mystery soap - based on Perry Mason - but why he did is a mystery...