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Adrian Cronauer is a military misfit. As protagonist of the first major service comedy about Viet Nam -- and what sometimes seems to be the last, dead-on surreal word on the subject -- he appears in Saigon in 1965 out of uniform and out of step with army manners, protocol and discipline. An irrepressibly irreverent motormouth, he is unable to fit the format of Armed Forces Radio (basically hygiene lectures and Mantovani records), where he is the new disk jockey...
...Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O'Connor. These short stories have nothing to do with Halloween, but as anyone familiar with O'Connor can tell you, they fit the occasion perfectly. The title piece is particularly horrifying, and if someone named the Misfit comes begging candy at your door, call HUPD P.D.Q...
...show metamorphoses into a scary collision between those two cultures. Finally it becomes a romance between the elegant choreographer and the dead man's explosive, disturbing older brother -- a sexually charged clash of classes reminiscent of It Happened One Night or, in its brutality and danger, of the misfit infatuation in Requiem for a Heavyweight. The final scene is a rapprochement so tentative that it is played entirely in the dark: these reluctant lovers are unable even to look at each other...
Cast president Nick Weir as country singer Willie Everstop and Jon Blackstone as soprano Kiri On-Luggage (whose costume is a show-stopper) are a delightful pair of misfit lovers whose voices carry them through the show's strongest duet...
...Good Man Is Hard To Find, Flannery O'Connor. These short stories have nothing to do with Halloween, but as anyone familiar with O'Connor can tell you, they fit the occasion perfectly. The title piece is particularly horrifying, and if someone named the Misfit comes begging candy at your door, call HUPD, P.D.Q...