Harvard University presents a lot of opportunities to its students — a top-notch reputation, high quality educators and the chance to spend spring break in Bermuda in drag.This marks the 50th year the Hasty Pudding Theatrical will have visited Bermuda in its 165 years of existence.“While nobody is really sure how the trip started, we used to do a tour on the East Coast and the story is that one of the stops got cancelled, so HPT went to Bermuda instead as the tour happened over spring break and we have been going there ever since,” said Jyotika Banga, tour coordinator for the Cambridge, Massachusetts group.“One of the highlights for us is usually our walk about parade through Hamilton. The Town Crier accompanies us, we do a kick-line on the City Hall steps, and the band plays songs as we walk around handing out flyers about the show.”Those who buy tickets to HPT can usually expect a humorous play loaded down with political innuendo and sexual puns. The cast is usually male (sorry feminists); members play both male and female parts it’s sort of like the Christmas pantomime for grown-ups.Students involved in the play come from all segments of academia.There won’t be much for locals to identify with in this year’s HPT; it’s set in the middle of the ocean, on an island so isolated that people there don’t even know that war has been declared. Well, maybe there are a few things that might seem familiar.“This one is interesting because it is set during the Second World War,” said Tyler Lewis who is co-producer with Peter Riley. “So there won’t be as many political jokes as in previous years. It is set on an island in the Pacific.”The plot is that it’s rough sailing in the Pacific when the employees of the beachside Sand Bar find that all their customers have mysteriously fled. The bankrupt bar’s leprous (yes, he has leprosy and several other diseases) owner, Colin Sick, is about to shut things down for good when a ragtag platoon, led by the dashing soldier Private Partz, reveals the alleged existence of a buried treasure. It is written by Harvard students Rob Knoll and Tony Oblen with music composed by Ben Moss.HPT is a self-sustaining organisation, but the money raised in Bermuda goes to help schools around Havard that don't have a lot of funding for arts programmes.The show will run from March 20 to 22 at 8pm at the Earl Cameron Theatre at City Hall. Tickets are $20 at www.bdatix.bm.