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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...
...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...
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...
...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...