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‘A Midsemester Night’s Dream’
by the Follies 2008
Whether it be professors, competing business schools, or second
year students, no one escapes the rapiers of the Wharton Follies.
This year’s production, “a Midsemester night’s Dream,”
seemed to poke the most fun at Graduate Division Vice Dean
anjani Jain. BPuB, the required class of Business and Public
Policy, got its comeuppance in a parody of the amy Winehouse
hit, “Rehab,” while the decisions and assessments of the Myers-Briggs career assessment earned ribbing in “The Buy Side,” a
take-off on The Killers’ “Mr. Brightside.”
The Yale School of Management was another target. in one
skit, pre-schoolers represent various top business schools, and
Yale does not make the cut. in another, Follies players mocked
Yale as “second tier” for its “stealing” of former Wharton finance
professor andrew Metrick.
There also was plenty of student self-deprecation. Skits and
videos mocked aspects of Wharton courtship. One male stu
dent applied what he had learned in his Strategic analysis class
to figure out which date was better for his future, while in an
other sketch, a Romeo and Juliet pair tried to pursue a romance
doomed by their association with different cohorts.
Favorite professors were treated a little more kindly, and the
admissions office got its jabs, with a parody of the Home Box
Office show, “Entourage.” in this skit, director of MBa admissions
and Financial aid Thomas Caleel, WG’03, became devious agent
ari Gold, doing anything to keep a handsome Vinnie Chase char
acter from going to Stanford Business School, even granting
Wharton admission to Vinnie’s underqualified brother and friends.
If you missed the show and want to see the performance, you
are in luck. The 2008 Wharton Follies DVD is available for sale on
line at http://clubs.wharton.upenn.edu/wfollies/snapshots.html.
– Robert Strauss
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