HPT Strawberry Weekend
Come celebrate the final show in the original Hasty Pudding Theater! The final HPT performance on the original 12 Holyoke Stage will be on Sunday, March 20 at 3pm. There are several ways to join in what is sure to be a festive and momentous weekend.
The Torch Package:
$1000 per person
$1500 per couple
For our most devoted and generous supporters we offer dinner at the Rialto Saturday night followed by a special after-dinner reception with the executive board of HPT 157. Enjoy a night in the Charles Hotel before Sunday brunch at Sandrine's Bistro and then walk next door to see HPT 157: Terms of Frontierment, the last show on the original Pudding stage. Finally, join the company in the Member's Lounge for a toast to the future.
The Kickline Package:
$100 per person
$150 per couple
Enjoy Sunday brunch at Sandrine's Bistro and then walk next door and see HPT 157: Terms of Frontierment, the last show on the original Pudding stage. Then join the company in the Member's Lounge for a toast to the future.
The Bows Package:
$40 per person
$65 per couple
Attend HPT 157: Terms of Frontierment, the final show on the original Pudding stage. Then join the company in the Member's Lounge for a toast to the future. To make reservations for Strawberry Weekend, contact Alumni Coordinator Burden Walker at (617) 495-5205 or bhwalker@fas.harvard.edu . Can't make it on March 20? You still won't want to miss the final show in the original building. For regular run information, click here. HPT also accepts tax-deductible contributions from alumni and interested patrons. To arrange your donation, please contact Burden Walker at (617) 495-5205.
New College Theatre to Replace Historic Hasty Pudding Building
The landmark 12 Holyoke Street theatre that has housed the Hasty Pudding Theatricals since 1888 is to undergo a major renovation, which will begin in April 2005. Over one hundred years since its conception, renovations to the historic playhouse will replace almost two-thirds of the existing structure, and restore and preserve the front façade and first third of the building. During the renovations, the Theatricals will move to a different theatre in Harvard Sq.
This year's production, HPT 157: Terms of Frontierment , will be the last one to grace this historic stage, and the show on March 20 th will be the last one ever in this theatre.
In a college press release, Harvard College Dean Benedict H. Gross commented on the New College Theatre that will essentially replace the old structure and likely be completed in two years. “We have a strong arts heritage here at Harvard,” Gross said. “The Hasty Pudding Theatricals is in the forefront of that heritage, having been a fixture here since the late 1700s. We are very happy that we will be able to give them, and several other student performance groups at Harvard a wonderful new home so that old traditions may continue, and new ones may begin.”
Co-Producers of the Theatricals Romina Garber '06 and Charles Worthington ‘06 described the impact of the move on the Pudding. “After 117 years of performances in this building, it certainly feels like the end of an era,” Garber said. “While we are sad to leave the historic Pudding building, we are also excited about what the new facility can offer to us, and more generally to the arts at Harvard.”
“The New College Theatre will serve as a much-needed center of undergraduate theater at Harvard University ,” Worthington said. “The Hasty Pudding Theatricals is excited to be the heart of this new center. The 12 Holyoke renovations will allow HPT to continue to produce high-quality performances for many decades to come.”
The Pudding is the oldest theatrical company of any college campus in the United States (its conception dating back to 1795), and its playhouse is an integral part of the organization's history. Next year will be the first time that the Pudding show is performed outside of its playhouse during the Cambridge leg of its run (the show tours in New York and Bermuda ). It will also be the first time the world-famous Man and Woman of the Year events are held somewhere other than 12 Holyoke Street .
Tickets
To purchase tickets to the last production in the current Hasty Pudding theatre on 12 Holyoke St. , contact the HPT box office at 617-495-5205 or buy them online at www.hastypudding.org .
The show opens on Man of the Year, February 17, 2005, and runs until March 20, 2005 in Cambridge , performing Tuesday – Thursday at 8pm, Saturday at 4pm and 8pm, and Sunday at 3pm.
HPT 157: Terms of Frontierment then travels to New York to perform at Hunter College's Kaye Theater March 25 and 26 at 8pm, and then at Hamilton City Hall in Bermuda, March 30 – April 2 at 8pm.
Contact Info
For more information about the renovations or HPT in general, please contact Hasty Pudding Theatricals Press Manager Claire Friedman. She can be reached by phone at 917-364-9565 or e-mail at cfriedm@fas.harvard.edu.
Man and Woman of the Year
Catherine Zeta Jones and Tim Robbins are the 2005 Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year!
The Woman of the Year parade through Harvard Square (open to the public) and roast will take place the afternoon of February 10. The Man of the Year roast and black-tie opening of HPT 157: Terms of Frontierment will take place on February 17 at 8pm.
For more information, including tickets to the Roasts, please call 617-495-5205, or click here.
HPT Charity
HPT 157 to Donate $12,000 for Cultural Enrichment into Cambridge Public Schools. Click here for more info.
HPT 157: Terms of Frontierment Tickets Available
Join Luke N Forglory and his geeky girlscout sidekick Wanda Buymuycookies they search for the greatest treasure of the American West, the Oregon Grail. Along the way they'll join forces with an aspiring country western singer and her hillbilly mother, an Indian chief and his daughter Pocahotness, and a lovesick female buffalo, Alma Stextinct.
HPT 157: Terms of Frontierment plays in Cambridge February 17 – March 20, in New York City March 25 & 26, and in Hamilton, Bermuda March 30 – April 2.
For tickets and more information click here.
For more news, check our old press releases here.
