OPENS April 21
playing April 22, 23, 28, 29, 30 (all shows at 8pm)
At Kresge Little Theater, 48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
For tickets http://web.mit.edu/dramashop
or email ds_tickets@mit.edu
Tickets are $8, with discounts available for students
Contact: Helen McCreery, Publicity Manager ds_officers@mit.edu
The Demolition Downtown is presented through special arrangement with the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee
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"And,
of course, there were the singers......The two numbers I remember most
clearly are the medley of "Dixie" and "The Battle Hymn
of the Republic" sung by a young woman who represented one of the
Southern states, and Happy Days Are Here Again" sung by Miss New
York. The medley seemed to me to be as silly as someone singing a combined
version of "The Star Spangled Banner" and "Amazing
Grace"; someone
might as well do such a medley in a future Miss America contest and
neatly tie together all the ideological aspects of being American. To
be American has come to mean, in popular culture, not so much being
alienated from our history, but insisting that our history is contained
in a series of high-sounding slogans and mawkish songs--indeed, that
our history resembles nothing so much as the message and the jingle
of a television commercial." Watson, Elwood and Darcy Martin, ed. "There She Is, Miss America". New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. |
"For
the benefit of whose who never knew I'm a Miss America! How do you do!
I won a prise in '44 and of course all this is through with; And I have
a great big silver loving cup that I don't know what to do with. I'm Miss America . . . so what! They had me posing like I wouldn't And they photographed me where they shouldn't But it's nice to be Miss America, it makes like so trés gai, Now if I could only find a way to eat three times a day." -sung by Miss Venus Ramey, Miss America of 1944, in her nightclub act after her inauspicious reign |