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...steering committee member and Gillbert andSullivan Players president Jill R. Weitzner '96says that students who perceive a lack of artsresources at Harvard may simply not realize thatextensive options are available to them. "Thereare so many art resources at Harvard, it isoverwhelming in some ways. I think students gethere and they begin to focus in on one area sothat they lose the bigger picture," said Weitzner...
...going to have some students who arewell-versed in all of the resources of Harvard,and can spread these resources to their friends,"said Weitzner...
...romantic comedy, featuring sappy dialogue between the lovers Mollie (Bess Wohl) and John (J.P. Anderson). Their pasts, however, are anything but sweet; John's wife left him, and Mollie married and divorced the same abusive husband twice. Then enter Mollie's ex's mother, Mother Lovejoy (Jill Weitzner), the Southern playwright's requisite aging Southern belle, and her dowdy daughter Loreena (Tanya Krohn). But even these entertaining albeit two-dimensional characters hide strange secrets...
...saving grace of this production is its cast. Terrio and Lisa Halliday give engaging performances as schoolchildren, capturing the posture, motions, and tone of early adolescents. Wietzner's Mother Lovejoy is consistently amusing. Though her movement on stage is unconvincingly agile for a woman of Mother's age, Weitzner's accent, gestures, and facial expressions communicates clearly the attitudes of this pushy ex-belle who's main concern is to seem "aristocratic." Krohn's Loreena is lovably nerdy and woebegone, and her characterization is strongest not when Loreena is speaking but when she is listening, nearly forgotten, as the others...
...Weitzner also described Herrnstein as scrupulously conscientious in his dealings with students. "He was always available, gracious and eager to discuss ideas, a consummate scholar," she said...