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A piano is completely destroyed after plummeting six stories from the roof of Baker House in the annual Piano Drop.

Pseudolus, right, (Timothy I. Abrahamson ’06) convinces Hero (Jonathan A. Gray ’10) to shut up and do what he’s told. MTG’s production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum runs for the next two weekends i...

Proteans (Armen Babikyan, right, and Nicole M. O’Keeffe ’09, left) paint a pretty little picture of leads Hero, Philia, and Pseudolus. MTG’s production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum runs for the ne...

Workers prepare for Baker House’s annual Piano Drop.

Pseudolus (Timothy I. Abrahamson ’06) reluctantly pays two Proteans (Nicole M. O’Keeffe ’09, left, and Armen Babikyan, right) money that may or may not have obtained legitimately. MTG’s production of A Funny Thing Hap...

PANDAS CAN’T FLY—This unfortunate stuffed panda was selected for the test drop in Baker House’s Annual piano drop.

Last Friday several MIT Community members attended a candlelight vigil in memory of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings. On April 16 Cho Seung-Hui killed 32 people before taking his own life in the deadliest ca...

Manufactured traffic crosses the Mass. Ave bridge during Sunday's filming. The camera was located at the end of a long truck-mounted boom (attached to the black truck, center) so that the camera could be positioned ov...

Stephanie C. Chan '09 practices with her chamber group for the Chamber Music Society outside on the Kresge lawn on Sunday, taking advantage of the amazing weather.

Gardner Loulan, mtvU host, talks to the Biodiesel@MIT team on stage.

Having closed the bridge to both pedestrian and vehicular traffic, the filmmakers used hired extras and professional drivers to simulate regular traffic during filming. Here, six hired cars and a motorcycle wait on th...

Department of Conservation and Recreation officers worked alongside the State Police and the film studio's internal security to keep passersby off the Mass. Ave bridge during Sunday's filming.

21 director Robert Luketic stares off into space during the last part of Sunday's filming.

The camera-helicopter lands on the Mass. Ave bridge during Sunday's filming. The 21 filmmakers used a helicopter-mounted camera extensively, even removing many of the lampposts on the Mass. Ave bridge so that the heli...

The bridge closure took place so that the film studio might film the opening scene of 21, in which the main character (Ben Campbell) rides his bicycle across the Mass. Ave bridge. Here, actor Jim Sturgess rides his bi...

Katherine R. Hoff '08 works out Monday at the MIT Boathouse.