When you see John A. Lithgow '67, star of "Third Rock from the Sun," wandering around campus, it means one thing: Arts First weekend has returned.
Arts First 2000, the eighth annual festival, is a weekend celebrating theater, dance, music, visual arts and film.
Highlights include a performance fair with dozens of varied acts, concerts in Sanders Theatre, performances on an outdoor stage at the Holyoke Center
and the traditional Arts First parade.
Yesterday, Lithgow began his four-day reign as "master of the arts" at Harvard. In that role, he presides over events ranging from children's theater to Senegalese drumming.
And while Lithgow and other stars only show up for the weekend, students put in considerably more time preparing.
Julia A. Griffin '03, producer of The Secret Garden on the Loeb Mainstage, said that making the musical has been "an incredible experience that has thoroughly consumed my life for the past three months."
Other festival contributors expressed similar devotion to their projects.
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