FLEX TIME AT THE MIDDLE & UPPER SCHOOLS
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Meeting of Geniuses & Tunes in London Streets
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ROM EINSTEIN and Picasso to Mary Poppins and chimney-sweep Bert, on Baker Theater’s stage, fall was a season resplendent with high-brow comedy, cherished and tuneful song, and a drop-in visit
from perhaps the world’s most beloved fictional nanny. For Upper School thespians, November’s comic challenge was Steve Martin’s Picasso at the Lapin Agile, written in 1993, the famed comedian’s first turn as a playwright. Set in 1904 in a character-filled Parisian bar called Le Lapin Agile (“The Nimble Rabbit”), the light-hearted script imagines an exchange between the ground-
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OF BRUNSWICK • WINTER 2019