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CHARLEY'S AUNT ends, I hope, the plague of warhorse comedies, including Arsenic and Old Lace and Harvey, that has infested Harvard stages this season. One would think that every college student in America has seen or put on these plays too many times in high school...
Charley's Aunt...
Oxford lads Jack (R. Donivan Barton) and Charley (Marc D. Peters) have invited Kitty (Kris Alexander) and Amy (Abigail Shapiro) to lunch in order to propose to them. Charley's aunt, the pretext for inviting the girls, sends word that she can't come. Through a Plot Machination and an Incredible Coincidence, the boys find a substitute "aunt": their friend Fancourt (Adam L. Schwartz) in full drag. A Plot Machination or two later, both Jack's father, Sir Francis (Billy Salloway) and the girls' guardian, Spettigue (Jon Hill) arrive, and both take a shine to the "aunt." Things get worse...
...years later, David's daughter-in-law making sure her husband does not burn the poem that won Agnes' heart ("A love so true sings out to me . . .") along with the rest of the papers he inherited from the dad he'll never learn to forgive. Your shy Aunt Myrna enduring the Bake-Off at the state fair, with all those people watching and Joey Chitwood's Thrill Show roaring around her. She managed to talk the judge out of giving her chocolate cake the prize it deserved ("I don't know . . . This isn't very good...
...fringes of the nation's attention, then seized it with surprising force as it inched toward a climax. For more than two days late in the week, Americans were gripped by the plight of little Jessica McClure, 18 months young, who tumbled down a well while playing in her aunt's backyard. Trapped underground for 58 desperate hours, the child seemed doomed. Yet a down-but-determined West Texas town rallied round and literally clawed its way to her rescue. The drama offered the ultimate counterpoint: the dark currents of world events shared the screen with the whimpers...