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'Bareassters'

Surprising touches of musical
finesse were provided by Linda
Howard, borrowing from "Hair"
with a sweetly song, "A Man
Named Macbread"; and by an
assemblage of ten vocalists called
the "Bareassters," who won
repeated applause by
barber-shopping their songs with
the sort of intricate harmonizing
that gets so wound up that the
point of the song is completely lost.
Macbread's strained but clever
version of "Smoke Some Dope,"
sung to the tune of "Let It Be,"
and the witches' "Miranda,"
borrowing the tune from "Maria,"
were two of music director
Sullivan's best numbers.