BUZZ: The dialogue was written centuries ago, but The Boys will undoubtedly be entertaining for modern audiences. The music was written in the 1930s, and the show promises to be chock-full of dancing, including a dancing brothel scene. Producer Tse Wei Lim boasts that they "found the best damn choreographer on campus, Heather Childs, who plans to go wild with this show." Costumes will be made by Erica Waddell, and will be, says Lim "specatularly revealing." And, in typical Harvadian, Hasty Pudding type fashion, the head courtesan will be played by a man.

BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS

By Neil Simon

Directed by Marcie Ulin '02

Produced by Sarah McAuley '02

Loeb Experimental Theater

April 27-29

STORY: According McAuley, Brighton Beach Memoirs is quintessential Neil Simon--it's funny and dramatic, a classic coming-of-age type story. The play deals with an extended Jewish family living in the Brighton Beach area of Brooklyn during the Depression and their various conflicts, especially the clashes between the two matriarchs. The other main plot line depicts fifteen year-old Eugene Jerome as he deals with the trials and tribulations of adolescence, all while living under one roof with his extended family. And in case that wasn't enough to make the Jerome household somewhat dysfuntional, Eugene soon develops a crush on his cousin Nora and must seek information on masturbation from his brother Stanley.

BUZZ: Ulin is very excited about her upcoming production. "I chose this play now because the last two plays I worked on were American Buffalo and Simpatico, two very worthy and rather heavy dramas." This year, she wanted something lighter that still displayed the poignancy of the lives she was depicting. The set is being designed with the intention of turning the Ex into the Jerome house, so that the audience is entering a fully developed world that invites them to observe. The key of this play lies in its intimacy and the audience's ability to feel that it is part of this household, part of this family's life.

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