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Get ready to rumble: Sharks, Jets meet on modern stage in Princeton University Players' 'West Side Story'

It's 5:30 on a Friday afternoon and a group of students are gathered in the Forbes Black Box. Dressed in loose pants and t-shirts, they stretch out and then move on to a series of push ups and sit ups.No, this isn't a University athletic group; this is the cast of "West Side Story," the latest production of the Princeton University Players, which will run at Richardson Auditorium this weekend.The musical, composed by Leonard Bernstein and with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, is directed by Daeil Cha '03, and choreographed by Cha and Linda Madueme '03.Based on William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," "West Side Story" is the story of the intense rivalry between two gangs on New York's West Side ? the "American" Jets and the Puerto Rican Sharks.

NEWS | 11/13/2002

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Unbridled 'Passions': NBC's unabashed daytime soap lures in younger audiences

Each day for the last three years, Tabitha Lenox has wracked her brain trying find a plan that will successfully destroy her 18-year-old next door neighbor Charity Standish.So far, electrocuting her, drowning her, trapping her in hell and freezing her in a block of ice have proved vain efforts.This tale may sounds a little far-fetched, but there are many more where that came from.

NEWS | 11/06/2002

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Band takes its performance seriously, but is willing to poke fun at itself

"Okay, one-two-three, four!" With a swift slice of his hands through the air, Dave Driscoll is ready to start, but only a few alert trumpeters follow his cue."Now ? everybody!" grins the student conductor of the Princeton University Band, practicing with his musicians assembled deep in the basement of the Woolworth music building for their weekly Tuesday night rehearsal."They don't pay attention to me," says Driscoll '04, a saxophonist when he isn't conducting the group, "I'll be up there telling them 'play faster,' 'play slower' ? but they just play it however they want."Do they heed him during performances?"Enough," he quips.Watching a recent rehearsal makes it clear that these orange-and-black-plaid-clad purveyors of "music, marching, mirth and merriment" are certainly not all play and no work.

NEWS | 10/09/2002