Word: besoyan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BABES IN THE WOOD. The Globe never saw anything like Rick Besoyan's loose musical adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Its good-natured brashness provides a pleasant evening for lovers of light, spoofy theater...
BABES IN THE WOOD. Rick Besoyan's vaudevillian version of A Midsummer Night's Dream is more akin to Minsky than Shakespeare. The humor is broad, the music is gay, the mood is light. The groundlings would have loved...
Babes in the Wood uses A Midsummer Night's Dream as a getaway vehicle for a spoofy musical in which Composer-Librettist Rick Besoyan (Little Mary Sunshine) kids the things he loves and loves the things he kids. It is a diverting trifle with glints of moon madness...
...Besoyan and his fetching cast are more mimics than satirists. Babes is pretty distant from William Shakespeare, but not from the humor of his groundlings. And when it comes to two amiably mind-free, cheerily untroubled hours in the theater, almost all playgoers are groundlings...
When it isn't lost in a silly maze of plottage, Gypsy bursts into songs that are tonic and tuneful, most notably Ting-A-Ling Dearie. What Besoyan should have done was junk the show and release the cast recording...