It's delightful, it's delicious, it's dlevy!
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Laurence O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin (the team behind Legally Blonde: The Musical) wrote this specialty number for a Hasty Pudding fundraiser earlier this month.
No, this is not a Libby Gelman-Waxner column, but an actual wedding announcement from the class notes section (class of ‘97) of the most recent Harvard magazine.
Not sure how the editors allowed them to so clearly mislabel Duffy Square as Times Square, but clearly that is the least of what’s going on in this.
‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski listed in Harvard alumni directory
- The Harvard alumni directory for the class of 1962, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, contains a bizarre entry for Ted Kaczynski, the graduate who went on to send deadly bombs through the mail as the mysterious and elusive Unabomber.
This shouldn’t surprise anyone who’s ever actually seen one of the red books. I mean, prisoners get mail, right?
(via boston)
You may have smiled at his blue hair and farcical posters, but David L. Levy ‘00 says his campaign for Undergraduate Council president should not be laughed off.
My favorite bit, which I had entirely forgotten:
And next to other candidates’ posters, Levy and his staff also affix small sheets proclaiming “David Levy doesn’t make unfulfillable promises.”
You may have smiled at his blue hair and farcical posters, but David L. Levy ‘00 says his campaign for Undergraduate Council president should not be laughed off.
When I was a freshman in college, my main extra-curricular activity was The Freshman Musical, a full-scale production entirely created start-to-finish - script, score, orchestrations, cast, crew, etc., all members of the freshman class. (I think we cheated with a couple of ringers in the orchestra, but who’s counting?)
I was one of the producers of the show, which was (as the Harvard Crimson noted) “a surprisingly conventional musical comedy” called No Bull. What can I say? Those of us who put it together were all, in our own ways, unabashedly devoted to the conventional musical. Our early brainstorming sessions had a lot of references to Rodgers and Hammerstein and the Disney musicals of Alan Menken.
This song, “Stick Around a While,” is one that I cowrote with John Baxindine (who has gone on to be an actual professional arranger/orchestrator/music director/accompanist/composer/etc.). John wrote all the music (and the orchestration); we collaborated on the lyrics. I’m pretty sure all the terrible lyrics are mine and the passable lyrics are his. But listening to this song 15 years later, I’m impressed with how capable it is. Sure, there are a couple of clunkers, and John tried a little too hard to create something that was a cross between Leonard Bernstein and Kurt Weill (you should have heard it before I begged him to simplify the counterpoint section!)… But I’m actually pretty proud of this. (I take no responsibility for the performances, however…)
One of my favorite former students (who is now a friend) is co-producing this concert, which features Darren Criss and a bunch of Ivy League a capella groups. It benefits two incredibly worthwhile charities, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation and The Trevor Project.
So if you’re going to be in NY on December 17, buy a ticket.
Bea All That You Can Bea. Also circa 2005, the heyday of the Golden Girls Appreciation Society at Harvard.
