Word: besoyan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Student Gypsy. Composer, Lyricist, Librettist and Director Rick Besoyan has moved from Off-Broadway to Broadway, and from a Little Mary Sunshine to a lot of deadly nightshade. Sunshine was a mildly pleasant little spoof of bygone musicals featuring red-coated forest rangers. Gypsy is an ornately boring take-off on woebegone musicals starring mythical Balkan kingdoms. Besoyan is about as creative as a coroner, and his flaming wit conceives ashy dialogue...
...Rome-an Italian musical smash about a Roman ne'er-do-well of the early 19th century who is unjustly accused of murder. Untranslated, the production will feature subtitles under the stage (Feb. 8). Another bit of musical miscellany is the long-postponed Broadway debut of Rick Besoyan, who wrote Little Mary Sunshine, the Oklahoma! of off Broadway. Another spoof of the operettas of the '20s, this one is called The Student Gypsy, or The Prince of Liederkranz, starring Eileen Brennan, who was Little Mary (Sept...
...carrying flowers in one hand, a watering can in the other, and stainless steel morals in her breast. She loves the No. i Forest Ranger, a strapping fellow, tall as a sequoia and equally intelligent. Wild improbabilities follow one another in woolly sequences; the skillfully imitative melodies by Rick Besoyan (who also wrote book and lyrics) seem to have been written with a pastry tube...