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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rick Besoyan must have shared this same distaste for the tap-tap-tap when he wrote his Little Mary Sunshine, a delightful satire of those song and dance shows to which director Greg Delawie '80 and the South House Drama Society have done justice. The play takes place on a summer day in Colorado in 1910. The main plot is simple: a group of forest rangers, who resemble Dudley Do-Rights more than Ranger Ricks, arrive at Little Mary Sunshine's vacation home in search of the wild Indian Yellow Feather. Of the 17 characters, 14 are romantically involved...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Sweet Revenge | 3/24/1977 | See Source »

...that he deserves a chair in the Classics Department. Fleet Foot, portrayed by Alan Middleton, is the typical half-blind, half-dead reservation Indian. The best of all, however, is the wild savage Yellow Feather, Adam Ramirez, who lusts after the white flesh of our Little Mary. By giving Besoyan's characters the right amount of schmaltz, the Sunshine Indians help rebut the John Wayne school of frontier history...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: Sweet Revenge | 3/24/1977 | See Source »

Died. Rick Besoyan, 45, former actor and singer who in 1959 wrote the book, music and lyrics and directed Little Mary Sunshine, one of Off-Broadway's alltime hits, which ran for 1,143 performances, and was produced in all 50 states and 24 foreign countries; of gastrointestinal bleeding; in Bay Shore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 23, 1970 | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

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