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...nuclear holocaust might feel. The production has been termed an "evacuation party," and for the first hall at least, the action revolves around a purpoted nuclear attack, a pre attack evacuation and life in a bomb shelter. But at its worst Out Out becomes precious, a manipulative revival-house sing along, a punked-out version of Hair or Godspell brimming with those works' combination of rebel-with a cause naivete and we have seen the enemy and he lives in suburbia" pseudo-sophistication...
With Sands out of the tournament. Harvard's Warren Grossman is the hopeful challenger to the top-seeded Layendecker. Though Grossman usually plays number two behind Sands, he is ranked second in A-sing let category. And having beaten Layendecker in October's ECAC tourney. Grossman is favored by Harvard enthusiasts for an upset...
...they'll all kowtow." As master artificer of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, Director Trevor Nunn has applied brush, tweezers, rouge and style to this dowager of a "problem play." He has outfitted her in the decorous billows and sashes of Edwardian England, taught her to sing and dance, sent her on a grand tour of Belle Epoque France and war-weary Italy. Now, fresh from triumphs in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, this radiant creature has come to charm Broadway for 16 weeks. Three cheers and a kowtow are in order...
...else would they spend 3½ hours every spring watching what may be the dullest show on earth-the Oscars? But, then, they may merely like puzzles, such as this year's: Why were the musical numbers so bad? Why was the multiuntalented Peter Allen chosen to sing and dance a medley of Irving Berlin songs, when he can do neither? Or, more to the point, why was Gandhi, good as it is, chosen Best Picture over E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, the most popular movie of the year and the highest grosser (more than $350 million) of all time...
...finale, the characters pass around English flags and wave them as they sing the last song. That final touch rounds off a perfectly exquisite evening of G&S--one leaves humming the show's most memorable melodies, twanging with English accents, eagerly awaiting a seventh and yet an eighth opportunity to see the show...